Construction of the Centre for Computing and Engineering
This is a photographic journal documenting the construction of the Centre for Computing and Engineering and the Department's move there.
Left, the site on April 18, 2002; at right, October 26, 2004.
THE CONSTRUCTION
- Part 1: Parking Lot Removal (October 15 to October 31, 2002)
- Part 2: Parking Lot Removal Completes (November, December 2002)
- Part 3: Prelude to Foundation † (January 2003)
- Part 4: Foundation and Earth † (February 2003)
- Part 5: Foundation's Edge † (March 2003)
- Part 6: Forward the Foundation † (April 2003)
- Part 7: Foundation † (May 2003)
- Part 8: Basement and Main Pillars (June 2003)
- Part 9: Basement, Main Pillars and Strong Floor (July 2003)
- Part 10: Basement Completed (August 2003)
- Part 11: First Floor Completed (September 1 to October 4, 2003)
- Part 12: Second Floor Completed (October2003)
- Part 13: Third Floor Completed (November 2003)
- Part 14: Fourth Floor Completed (December 2003)
- Part 15: Roof Completed (January 2004)
- Part 16: Glass Installed (February 2004)
- Part 17: Glass Installation Completed (March 2004)
- Part 18: Masonry Installation Begins (April 2004)
- Part 19: First Interior Views (April 27, 2004)
- Part 20: Masonry Installation Completed (May 2004)
- Part 21: Hoarding Removed (June 2004)
- Part 22: Before the Move (July 2004)
THE MOVE
- Part 23: The Move: “And so it begins...” (July 19,20 2004)
- Part 24: The Move: “There and back again.” (August 2004)
THE FINISHING TOUCHES
- Part 24: Leftovers (September 2004)
- Part 25: More Leftovers(October 2004)
- Part 26: Atrium Completed(November 2004)
- A Sprinkler Leaks(November 25, 2004)
- Part 28: Coffe Kiosk(Jan 2005)
- Part 29: New Chairs / Donor Wall(Feb 2005)
- Part 30: Donor Wall Completed (kinda) (Mar 2005)
- Part 31: Atrium Functions and Corridor Seating (Apr 2005)
- Part 32: More Donor Wall Construction(May 2005)
- Part 33: Signage & Atrium Reception (Jun 2005)
VIDEO ARCHIVE
- Timelapse footage (one frame per day) of the entire construction from April 2003 to February 2004 (7.7MB MPEG)
- The Construction (video clips of the construction)
- The Move (video clips of the loading, moving and the unloading)
- Hoarding Removal timelapse footage on June 23, 2004 (3.6 MB mpeg)
TIME-LAPSE PHOTOS
- Dalhousie Street (June 26, 2002 to Oct 4, 2003)
- Rogers Atrium (October 10, 2002 to March 11, 2003)
- Church Street Bridge (November 12, 2002 to May 9, 2003)
Commentary & photography: Luis Fernandes.
Camera details: 5.1 megapixel Canon S60 SureShot with 3.5X optical zoom.
Other Notes: Original photos have a resolution of 5 Megapixels. Panoramas are created using Adobe Photoshop to “stitch-together” 2 or more images and optionally touched-up to fill blank spaces.
Beginning in March 2005, the thumbnails are produced using the Thumbscrew program running on OS X.
† With sincere apologies to the late Isaac Asimov.