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Residents in South Texas\u2019 Nueces County<\/a> are receiving coronavirus tests and additional healthcare in a mobile medical clinic designed and built by Texas A&M construction science<\/a> students.<\/p>\n

The clinic was brought to Nueces County last fall in a partnership between the county and the Texas A&M Colonias <\/em>Program<\/a>, which serves colonias <\/em>residents in South Texas and all along the 1,200-mile Texas-Mexico border. Colonias <\/em>are subdivisions that often lack one or more common infrastructure elements such as electricity or running water.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Colonias <\/em>Program is proud to be part of Nueces County’s efforts to provide coronavirus testing and other healthcare services to the county\u2019s residents,\u201d said Oscar Mu\u00f1oz, director of the program. \u201cThe clinic helps provide healthcare to residents who may not have the means to travel to the county\u2019s urban centers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tests are being administered by the Nueces County Health Department.<\/p>\n

Students built the clinic in the fall 2016 semester at the College of Architecture\u2019s Automated Fabrication & Design Lab<\/a> at the RELLIS Campus as part of a capstone class led by construction science faculty Ben Bigelow, Ben Ashburn and Jos\u00e9 Fern\u00e1ndez Solis. Bigelow now heads the Construction Science Division at the University of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe students learned that planning a budget, creating a construction schedule, and assigning personnel for the project was more difficult than they thought,\u201d said Patrick Suermann, head of the Department of Construction Science. \u201cWhen the project was done, the students could be proud, look back and say \u2018We built that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information, contact rnira@arch.tamu.edu<\/a> or doswald@tamu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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