An Ever-Growing Collection of News, Features & Achievements
Tower Crane. The tower crane is up! On Friday night, all day Saturday, and through Sunday afternoon a crew of about a dozen Miron workers spent their Memorial Day weekend finishing the crane that will make it much quicker and easier to move construction materials around the site where the new tower is going up. …
Tower excavation. This week our building really began to take shape; there was lots of activity in the excavation area and part the structure is now almost as high as the fourth floor of Daniels. Steel columns roughly 60 feet tall were delivered, erected, and installed. Two 25,000-pound beams were lifted into place and fastened …
Tower excavation—lots happening! Concrete has been poured for many of the footings and some of the walls for our new tower. Last week concrete footings were poured in the bottom of the pit for the bases of the columns that support the entire weight of the tower above the larger lecture room. This week the …
Tower Crane. Success! The tower, turntable, and cab of our tower crane were erected over the weekend. Friday night equipment was brought in and lanes were closed on University Avenue. Early Saturday morning the construction team set up a large mobile crane. Flatbed trucks brought sections of the tower crane to Mills Street where they were …
Charter Street. At long last Charter Street has been resurfaced! On Friday between about 10 am and 2 pm asphalt pavement was put down across the full width of the street. By mid-afternoon rollers had smoothed the surface and we now have a blacktop street. There is work yet to be done in Charter Street …
The schedule of construction activities for this week has been revised: The loading dock will be inaccessible from 11:00 am – 5:00 pm on Thur Apr 25. The driveway and dock are needed for the concrete pump truck and concrete deliveries. The loading dock will be inaccessible from 6:00 am on Fri Apr 26 until 6:00 …
Charter Street. If all goes according to schedule, Charter Street will be partially resurfaced this week—on Wednesday. The plan is to blacktop one lane and use the remaining gravel for loading-dock access. The other lane will be blacktopped later. Last week workers installed forms in preparation for pouring concrete curbs, sidewalk, and the apron at …
Reconfiguration of piping for natural gas service may cause a brief interruption of natural gas service in the Daniels wing sometime Monday morning. Because we use very little piped natural gas these days, this is not likely to cause significant issues, and it is not expected to affect natural gas service in Shain or Mathews …
Great news this week: the preliminary plans and budget of $1.3 million for the new Chemistry Learning Center facility in the Medical Sciences Center were approved by the Board of Regents. Aro-Eberle architects and UW Facilities Planning and Management have been authorized to proceed with detailed plans for the new CLC study areas and offices. …
The tower is now going up! So far most of what we have reported has been a downer—demolition took down the lecture halls and library and then a big hole when down into the ground. Now the west end of the hole is a deep as it needs to go, and concrete is being poured …