Located on Texas Instruments worldwide headquarters North Campus, the Semiconductor Building is the first Semiconductor Fabrication facility constructed here in North Texas. The building was designed by O’Neal Ford and Richard Colley and was constructed in 1958. In 2012, Michael J. McCoy led the Design Team responsible for conversion of approximately 250,000SF of the buildings total area from primarily Electrical Engineering Laboratories into modern and contemporary Office and support spaces; including a large capacity auditorium, a cafeteria, break rooms, conference rooms and various Mechanical and Electrical Rooms among other support spaces. The MEP scope included removal, rezoning, sizing and rerouting of all HVAC and Electrical distribution as well as the analysis of the existing equipment for reuse in the redesigned facility; most of the existing equipment was able to be reconditioned and reused! This effort was complicated by the existing floor to structure clear height of only 9’-2”. Space management of the MEP systems routing was carefully reviewed to ensure that the 8’ ceiling height would be achieved.

The design included the removal and pour back of large portions of the ground floor slab due to considerable heave having occurred over the last 50+ years and replacement of exterior storefront with high efficiency glazing. The available area of the building was also increased by creatively expanding the office areas twenty feet to the exterior by pouring a new slab under the existing forty foot overhang. The project was an extreme fast track delivery, the Designs began in July and was occupied by TI the following December.