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Health Care in the 21st Century
Architecture
students help
design center
for year 2030
By Karen Praslicka
The Battalion
Some Texas A&M architec
ture students are helping design
the future of the University of
Texas Health Science Center at
Houston.
Professor George Mann's
third-semester environmental
design class was asked by the
president of the center to design
a model for the center in the year
2030.
One of Mann's classes de
signed future facilities for the St.
Joseph Hospital and Health Cen
ter last semester, which inspired
this project.
Students formed nine teams
and were advised by HKS Archi
tects, Inc. of Dallas to design a
center that would be more inte
grated. Jonathan Bailey, an archi
tect with the firm, said the stu
dents did an excellent job on a
very difficult project.
"Health care is a hard field to
understand," he said. "The stu
dents had no biases of any kind
(going into the project), and that
generates new concepts and
ideas that you wouldn't find in
an established firm."
Brian Arenz, a junior, and
Ory Durand, a senior, worked as
a team to design a future health
center that would have more of a
warm, campus environment.
"The way it is right now,
there's no campus feeling,"
Arenz said. "A warm site is nec
essary for patients and to attract
students."
Greg Gold, a junior who
worked alone on his project, said
he wanted the design to have a
"parkish" atmosphere.
"I didn't want it to be a cold,
glass thing," he said. "I wanted
to make it comfortable."
Gold said he enjoyed trying
to solve the center's problem of
being too spread out. "That's
what architects do - solve prob
lems," he said. "It just so hap
pens this one was health care."
Gary Walston, a junior, and
Eric Korth, a senior, said they
both enjoyed the challenge of
their project.
"We really didn't know
where to begin at first," Korth
said. "We hadn't taken on any
thing this big before."
Walston said he enjoyed
working with actual clients,
which is not something the stu
dents get to do very often.
"It wasn't a hypothetical situ
ation," he said.
John Dailey, a sophomore,
and Christine Tellier, a junior,
tried to bring a human atmo
sphere into their design.
Dailey said the project was a
challenge in that he and Tellier
had to design a health and re
search facility that would still be
a nice place to stay.
"It was good experience
about the way things work in the
architecture world, he said.
Juniors Amy Hammons and
Douglas Edney said they enjoyed
working with center officials.
"They took our ideas seriously,"
Hammons said. "It's an oppor
tunity you don't get often."
Commission adopts regulatory changes
State officials give producers more say in amount of natural gas production
AUSTIN (AP) — State regulators Monday
unanimously approved giving producers a
bigger say in how much natural gas is pro
duced, but delayed action on rules that critics
said could lead to higher prices and federal in
tervention.
"We've come a long way. This is an ex
tremely important effort," Texas Railroad
Commission Chairwoman Lena Guerrero said.
The new system takes effect July 1. Its
adoption changes a more than 50-year-old
method in Texas of allocating demand to pro
ducers, and follows 17 years of study by the
commission and four months of heated debate.
Under the new rules, the producer will tell
the commission how much gas they can sell,
and then the commission will set the "allow
able" production.
Currently, pipeline companies and other
purchasers each month tell the commission
how much natural gas they will need for the
next month. The commission then sets a pro
duction limit, the allowable, on a pro-rated ba
sis among the state's more than 2,700 separate
gas reservoirs.
But purchasers have historically overesti
mated demand, leading to competition among
producers to sell to a smaller-than-expected
market. That pinch on producers has been
most acute during the recent spate of record
low prices for the commodity.
Under the new system, the commission will
tally monthly natural gas demand estimates
from producers, factoring in production
records, and then set the allowable.
"The independent natural gas producer in
Texas has struggled to survive under the
weight of a race-to-waste regulatory system,"
said T. Boone Pickens, chairman of Dallas-
based Mesa Inc., one of the largest natural gas
producers in the state. "Much of that weight
has now been lifted."
The change comes at a time when other
natural gas producing states have either adopt
ed or are considering rules limiting produc
tion. This has drawn fire from some members
of Congress who say they fear an emerging
OPEC-like cartel of energy-producing states.
Guerrero said the change was not designed
to limit Texas natural gas supplies and thereby
drive up the price. "We will never allow less
gas in this state to be provided than the market
demand," she said.
Texas is the biggest producer of natural gas
in the nation, providing about 31 percent of the
country's demand. The state also has 27.5 per
cent of the nation's natural gas reserves.
The commission delayed consideration of
how to handle waste and market discrimina
tion disputes that come up between parties
with interests in an individual field.
Commissioner Bob Krueger said he didn't
want to get involved in deciding whether one
producer over another should be shut down.
He said that could lead to statewide rather
than field-by-field production rules. It could
also hurt the development of the natural gas
market and draw fire from Congress, Krueger
said.
"If you pit the U.S. Army against the Texas
National Guard, I know who wins. If you pit
the U.S. Congress against the Railroad Com
mission, I know who wins," he said.
Commissioner Jim Nugent said he didn't
care what Congress thought, and said the state
should guarantee that every producer has an
opportunity to a share of the market based on
production capability.
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