Great Lakes Center

1/48 In Fall 2017, the Science Building was demolished to make way for the final phase of the Science and Mathematics Complex (SAMC). Here is the location of the old GLC office. Now that the windows and walls have been removed, you can see right inside!

2/48 Most of the walls have been removed from the exterior of the west side of the Science Building.

3/48 Most of the walls have been removed from the exterior of the south side of the Science Building. You can still see into the old GLC office.

4/48 Most of the walls have been removed from the exterior of the east side of the Science Building. Solid wooden fences separate the campus walkways from the construction site.

5/48 Most of the walls have been removed from the exterior of the east side of the Science Building. Solid wooden fences separate the campus walkways from the construction site.

6/48 The northeast corner of the construction site is the part that connects to SAMC.

7/48 An excavator is demolishing the part of the building that connects to SAMC.

8/48 More of the building has been removed.

9/48 The excavator is grabbing part of the building and pulling it down.

10/48 The excavator has removed and is holding a beam from the roof.

11/48 The south side of the Science Building is gone.

12/48 The old GLC office is gone, that section of the building has been demolished.

13/48 West side of the building. About half of the building has been removed.

14/48 Steel beams were removed from the rubble for recycling.

15/48 West side.

16/48 West side.

17/48 Half of the Science Building is gone in this picture of the east side of the building.

18/48 Half of the building remains. Southeast corner.

19/48 Half of the building remains. West side.

20/48 This one section had its walls for longer than the rest of the building. This worker is removing them finally.

21/48 The northeast corner of the building.

22/48 The northwest corner of the building as taken from the third floor of SAMC. The back part of the building has been removed.

23/48 Approximately 1/4 of the building remains in this picture from the southeast corner.

24/48 An excavator pulling down part of the last section of Science Building.

25/48 An excavator pulling down part of the last section of Science Building.

26/48 The northwest corner of the building as taken from the third floor of SAMC. The back part of the building has been removed, the third floor is gone and so is most of the second floor. Water was sprayed to minimize dust and prevent fires.

27/48 It's gone. Taken from the third floor of SAMC.

28/48 The northeast corner of where Science Building once stood. It's gone, and all that remains is the connection between the two buildings.

29/48 South side of the building - it's gone! The fence is being held up with pallets to keep it from being blown over by wind.

30/48 Southeast corner.

31/48 Southwest corner. Huge piles of debris.

32/48 Huge piles of wire, rebar, and concrete.

33/48 The materials from the demolition were sorted so that some could be recycled.

34/48 The last part of the Science building connector.

35/48 The Science building connector is gone.

36/48 The larger pieces of steel have been removed from the rubble.

37/48 Making progress at removing the rubble.

38/48 Work began to excavate the basement of the Science Building.

39/48 Sometimes many things happened at once. Here, one excavator clears rubble while another breaks apart huge pieces of concrete. There are two others doing excavations of the basement.

40/48 The open basement of the Science Building.

41/48 The excavation continues, breaking up the concrete of the foundation as it is removed.

42/48 Most of the foundation and rubble have been cleared away.

43/48 While the rubble was being cleared away, construction workers prepared the basement foundation for use in the new phase of SAMC.

44/48 A road was added in the construction site.

45/48 Gravel was spread over the basement foundation. White cubes of foam insulate the foundation of SAMC from the construction.

46/48 The basement foundation was filled with large foam blocks.

47/48 The foam blocks were covered with gravel.

48/48 In July 2018, the Science Building was completely gone and the site was prepared for the building of SAMC Phase 4.