Chemistry Building Project

From a Year Ago…to Now It has been almost exactly a year since gross demolition began on the northern part of the Daniels wing: The old lecture rooms, some classrooms, parts of some labs, and …

New Tower. There is a lot happening in the new tower than cannot be seen from the loading dock or other locations in our existing building—and a lot that can be seen. Last week concrete …

The driveway to the chemistry loading dock will be inaccessible on Thu Nov 7th and Mon Nov 11th. On Thursday, a concrete pump truck will be used to pour a portion of the floor slab …

New Tower. The loading dock was closed on Tuesday and Wednesday last week for backfilling of gravel around the sub-basement and basement walls. Unfortunately, weather has slowed installation of waterproofing and insulation on the upper …

The construction team needs to make a brief shutdown to the natural gas service to the Daniels wing – TODAY – Fri Nov 1st. The outage will commence at approximately 10:00 am and lasts approximately …

New Tower. The tower is now rising above ground level and preparations are being made for pouring concrete for the part of the second floor that will become the new information commons (library). Much shoring …

The driveway to the chemistry loading dock will be inaccessible on Tue Oct 29th and Wed Oct 30th. Construction crews will be using a conveyor system to back-fill around the foundation walls on the west …

New Tower. The big news last week was the largest concrete pour of the project—almost 11 hours long. Last Thursday, from 4 am to about 3 pm a concrete pump truck in the loading-dock area …

New Tower. The new tower area looks completely different from what you saw in the last newsletter. Shoring and concrete forms now cover much of the basement and first-floor areas in preparation for pouring concrete …