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Physics Building Renovation Project in progress May
2006-July 2007
Photo updates will be provided every four weeks. Let us hear what
you think!
Cliff Chancey (c.chancey@uni.edu)
Photographs of renovation progress: December 12, 2006
December 12, 2006, Outside the UNI Physics Bldg, on the
NE corner behind a pile of rubble (taken out as floor sections
were demolished to extend the central stairwell). The 1980
elevator tower at right will be torn down before spring. Plastic
sheets cover the windows in expectation of new window frames
arriving in January.
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December 12, 2006. The Butterworth Modern Physics lab, formerly
the research lab of Paul Shand and Ralph Engardt. A tabletop
of pipe fittings frames the view. The photographer (Bill Witt)
has his back to the east windows and this view looks west
to what will be the whiteboard area (and a pull-down screen).
Student tables will build out from each side of the room (from
left and right). Unpainted areas on the walls recall the locations
of wall cabinets and blackboards.
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December 12, 2006. On level 2, a worker applies plaster
to drywall in what will be a research lab, room 202; formerly
a classroom (PHY 212) at the NW corner of the building. Research
labs-unlike classrooms-will not have lowered ceilings, so
the full effect of light from the large windows will spill
into the lab. Floor to ceiling height on level 2 is 13 ft.
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December 12, 2006. The new entry way on Level 1. A plastic
sheet covers the entrance, and the worker standing at the entry
shows the height of the ceiling (11 ft). This new entry hallway
passes through what once was the modern optics teaching lab
of Dale Olson. Directly across the entry hall (behind the photographer)
are stairs down to the north entrance (formerly the building's
main entrance).
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December 12, 2006. The new 88-seat lecture hall, formerly PHY
101 (the General Physics I lab room). This will be room 114,
on Level 1, just down the hall from the new main entrance. Building
materials are stacked on new concrete piers. New seminar-style
tables will stretch from left to right. The back of the room
(the north side) is now about 36 inches above the old floor-just
below the south windows. The old emergency exit to the fire
escape still appears in the upper right-hand corner of the photo.
The fire escape will be dismantled in late December, and this
exit doorway will be reconstructed as a window-keeping with
the style (stone and mortar work) of the original windows.
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December 12, 2006. The General Physics I studio lab room, in
the NE corner of the top floor (level 3). The photographer is
standing in the room's SE corner, looking across at a storage
room door, with the brightly lighted level 3 hallway stretching
beyond the room's main doorway, at left. The strong light from
the large windows bathes the room, which will have space for
32 students. An interior hallway and four faculty offices are
behind a wall just off the photo's left edge.
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