Courtesy photo
The Lillis Business Complex, pictured above in a cross-section rendering, will add approximately 600 new seats to the business school.
Construction
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Lease Crutcher Lewis. “They’ll
grind up the concrete for base rock.”
Rexius Forest By-Products Inc.
workers used a powerful air hose to
cover roots of the trees west of Deady
Hall with an organic compost.
Larry Bolan, who’s been with the
Eugene-based company since 1977,
said the area’s irrigation system will
remain shut off during construction.
He said the compost, made from
yard refuse, would help the trees re
tain precious water in the event of
another dry summer. Bolan said the
company will eventually lay the
equivalent of about three football
fields of mulch 4 inches thick.
Pearson said crews should begin
excavating the basement in two
weeks, after demolishing the re
mainder of the bridge. In the fall,
the team will use a 211-foot tall
I
crane to erect the building’s steel
and concrete frame.
Onlookers gathered each day this
week to watch the demolition, in
cluding architecture graduate stu
dent Jess Ellingson.
As crews exposed the skeleton of
the bridge, Ellingson said she
picked up many valuable lessons
for an aspiring architect.
“I can see what the fate of one of
my buildings might be,” she said.
“The construction system of rein
forced concrete doesn’t allow the
building to adapt to future uses.”
Contractors used concrete for the
building’s lateral bracing instead of
a system of steel supports, Elling
son said. Steel-brace systems can be
more easily adapted to meet struc
tural changes, such as adding use
able space to a building.
Wick and Hilgers originally built
the bridge in the 1950s at a time
when contractors were using more
open-web steel joists as cheap re
placements for standard beams, ar
chitecture professor Don Peting said.
Contractors ordered steel joists with
specific, unchanging dimensions.
“They couldn’t be extended or
anything like that,” he said.
Ironically, the removal of the
Commonwealth Bridge brings the
University’s design more in line
with what the school’s first archi
tecture dean had in mind, Peting
said. Ellis Fuller Lawrence, who
served as dean from 1914 until his
death in 1946, wanted to create a
clear line of sight from Knight Li
brary to the fence lining 11th Av
enue — Dad’s Gate.
The Lillis Business Complex will
be completed for the 2003-04
school year. The project will add
600 classroom seats and numerous
media resources.
E-mail reporter Eric Martin
at ericmartin@dailyemerald.com.
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