New Facilities

 

Physics Building Renovation Project in progress May 2006-July 2007

 

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Cliff Chancey (c.chancey@uni.edu)

 

Photographs of renovation progress: May-June 2007

 

 

 

May 31, 2007. Standing between Lang Hall and the east entrance of the Physics Bldg., looking up at the 2nd floor Physics-Lang link. The Physics end of the link enters the building just outside the new Physics Office-an area at the front of PHY 201 (large lecture room) before the renovation.

 

May 31, 2007. Work begins on the stone surround for the new main entrance. A steel frame is in place to support the limestone facing. This entrance, and the new entry hall, runs through what was Dr. Dale Olson's Modern Optics teaching lab.

 

May 31, 2007. Lang Hall, room 243-the future Physics II teaching lab. This room will accommodate 32 students, distributed 4 to a peninsular table. The new Physics-Lang link enters Lang Hall just to the left of what will be the room entrance (forward to the left). Renovation of this space (and of Lang 383 above it) began during the second week of May-following the end of Spring 2007 classes.

 

June 26, 2007. The Electronics & Robotics teaching lab, before the arrival of 10 electronics benches (the only furniture to make it from the old building to the new building). This space was the "demo room" behind the blackboards in the large lecture hall (PHY 201). The new Physics-Lang link can be glimpsed outside the right-hand window.

 

June 26, 2007. The new main entrance and the entry hall leading to the central hallway. The old chair rails have been recreated and wooden floor molding has replaced the concrete moldings in the old building. Note the staggered ceiling.

 

 

June 26, 2007. Office furniture (Hon) in the midst of being assembled, on the top floor in one of the four faculty offices on the building's south side.

 

June 26, 2007. Boxes of office furniture line the central hallway on the top floor. Room 314, the new Physics I teaching lab, is straight ahead. The new west stairwell is behind the photographer. Note the stepped ceiling and indirect hallway lighting. The open doors show the wood and stain color for moldings and doors.

 

June 26, 2007. The Physics-Lang link, looking east from the Physics terminus. It travels over the Radio-TV production studies in Lang Hall before ending up outside Lang 243 (the new Physics II teaching lab).