Opening Day
September 6, 2005
In the first week of September we were officially granted occupancy of the new building, up to the fourth floor (though this didn't stop the bolder of us from going pretty much everywhere else as well).
The north side is similar to the most recent tour (but with more greenery :) )
The north side of the building is similar to the most recent tour, but with landscaping
Putting in the new paved walkway (taken from the top of the corner stairwell).
The basement, heading toward the classrooms.
Room 105, the largest of our classrooms, having audio-visual equipment installed just in time for the start of classes.
There is a video of this as well.
Room 165, our secondary classroom in the basement, still needs a data projector.
In the atrium, the connections to E1 are walled offso that work can continue there
Downward view from the fifth floor
The atrium stairwell is finished and ready to go
Glass is still being fitted and cleaned, and the shiny parts of the stairs polished.
Looking down onto some of the CS staff.
There is a video of this as well.
Moving straight up to the top floor (when breaking the rules on access, you may as well go as far as you can right away), we can see there's still work going on, mostly cosmetic:
The balcony on the sixth floor, what was originally supposed to be our grad student space, and is now the Engineering faculty lounge
Work is still going on in this area
The top of the atrium from our this area
Panoramic view of the upper atrium from the sixth floor
Vertical panorama from the fourth floor.
On the Fifth floor, our lab is also still undergoing some final paint work (they also missed putting a whiteboard in it, but that eventually showed up:
Autonomous Agents Lab panorama, looking West toward the entry hallway
Autonomous Agents Lab panorama, looking East away from the entry hallway
Me, Sara McGrath, Terry Liu, and Jacky Baltes in the lab (yes, I'm having a bad hair day).
The hallway leading into the lab is the perfect size for storage shelves, too.
The grad lounge, also on the 5th floor.
On the fourth floor, the department's office and (almost all) the faculty offices are also ready, except for builtins like shelving (that unfortunately we wouldn't have for a month yet, but that's another story involving myself and Peter Graham and a circular saw).
The main office, all done except for a builtin counter that is supposed to run from the monolith-like half wall across to the door.
East hallway, near the coop work area.
to the rear, the view outside.
Bill, Al, and Gerri, in the coop office, immediately to the left of the previous pictures.
to the right, a separate hallway giving a bit of noise separation to the offices on the east side.
Finally, something of likely interest to nobody else but me: my office!
Near the northeast corner, my office - you can see the phone on the floor, the only thing in the joint
a panarama of the wide open spaces, which will never be this wide open ever again
There is also video of this, showing the hallway as well.
To be added: before-and-afters for a number of the areas that I have pictures of at various stages of completion. For now, go back through the building tours from April and May and compare for yourself!