Photo by James Link
EMU addition begins to take shape on Carson Quad.
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Photo by Nick Lacy
Workers put finishing touches on Science III.
Construction projects
boom in east campus
Three multi-million-dollar building projects are
underway this fall at the University.
Largest is the $3.4 million Science III addition next
to Emerald Hall. Construction began on June 28, 1971
and should be finished around the beginning of winter
term.
When completed, the new science building will house
biology teaching laboratories, a large lecture room,
preparation areas for upper division science courses and
staff facilities, in addition to research areas for
neurobiology, physiology and ecology.
The project is financed by state funds and two
federal grants, $299,222 from the U.S. Office of
Education and $1,222,000 from the U.S. Public Health
Service.
Waldo Hardie & Son of Eugene are in charge of
general construction, Temp-Control Corporation of
Portland and Eugene are doing the mechanical work,
and Linnco Electric Company of Albany is in charge of
the electrical work.
The second major project is a new Administrative
Services Building, going up directly east of the Science
Complex and bounded by Franklin Boulevard, Agate
Street, and 13th Avenue.
The building will consist of a four-story, brick
veneered concrete structure with a three-story wing
covering 80,558 square feet and providing approximately
252 office stations.
Housed in the new building will be: the Registrar’s
Office, Admissions, Business Office, International
Services, Student Services, Financial Aids, Students’
Affair Research, Student Personnel, Placement Office,
Student Employment, Student Affairs Extension, and
Supportive Services.
Funds for the building, authorized by the 1971
Legislature, were released by the State Emergency
Board in the spring of 1972.
Plans are that half the funding will come from the
general fund and half from the sale of state construction
bonds.
The building should be completed by the fall of 1973.
Architects Wolff-Zimmer-Gunsul-Frasca-Ritter of
Portland designed the building.
Emerald Hall, a barracks moved from Camp Adair
to the University in 1947 to provide “temporary” office
space, will be torn down when the Administrative Ser
vices building is completed.
Construction began on the third major project, the
$2.8 million Erb Memorial Union expansion, on August
28.
The addition will be the third and probably final
stage of construction at the 13th Avenue and University
Street site. The original structure was built in 1950 for a
student population of 8,500. An addition was built in 1962.
The third addition, designed by architect George
Sheldon of the Portland firm of Colburn and Sheldon, is
being constructed on the southeast side of the present
structure, resulting in a net loss of 13 per cent of the
Carson quad. Most of the addition will be Onyx Street,
which will be closed to traffic.
The addition will include relocation of student
government offices on the ground level, eating facilities
on (he third floor, facilities for 200 or more bicycles,
elimination of the student store on the ground floor, a
landscaping extension into the area that is now 13th
Avenue, ramps for handicapped persons, and removal of
a basement wall to provide easier access and better
lighting.
Two smaller building projects were completed this
summer, the new Information Center at 13th and
University, and the underpass to Autzen Stadium.
The Information Center, financed by donations and
designed by an Architectural Workshop class, is
available to anyone who wants to display information for
the campus community.
The footbridge to Autzen Stadium is now accessible
at all times to pedestrians and cyclists, with the com
pletion in June of an Underpass beneath the Southern
Pacific Railroad tracks.
Prior to construction of the underpass, access to the
footbridge was limited to football game time and other
stadium events, when the gates across the track were
temporarily opened.
•Temporary' Kmerald Hall on way out.
Photo by J«m« Link
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