Outlook Magazine - Fall 2016

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W-Stout is preparing to celebrate the completion of the largest, most expensive and longest building renovation project in the campus’ 125-year history. A grand reopening celebration, with speakers and tours, is planned at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, for Harvey Hall, the largest academic building on campus. Work on the building continued into summer 2016. The building has been closed since January 2014, when the project began with asbestos removal. The $28 million project was a top-to-bottom renovation, including remodeled classrooms and offices; new infrastructure and historically correct 9½-foot-high windows; brick tuck-pointing and exterior cleaning; and the addition of a first-floor food and lounge area.

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Harvey Hall grand reopening

celebration planned Sept. 22

Students meet outside Harvey Hall in 1959.

The location of classrooms and offices were reversed, with classrooms moving down to the first two floors and offices to the third and fourth floors. Fourth-floor skylights, part of the original building, were restored. Hallways again have 13-foot ceilings, with drop ceilings removed. A mechanical room was added to the roof. A second elevator, part of the original building, was installed, partially necessitating the rooftop addition because the old, unused shaft was housing some mechanical operations. The heating and cooling system also was upgraded. Matthew Frey, a 2012 UW-Stout construction graduate, was the project manager for Miron Construction Co., Inc., the general contractor. Miron is owned by a UW- Stout alumnus, David G. Voss Jr., who graduated in 1976. The company is based in Neenah and has four regional offices in Wisconsin and one in Iowa. The project actually is the second phase of the building’s renovation. Harvey Hall Theatre reopened in April 2011 after a $5.6 million upgrade. The theater was closed during the current project. Harvey Hall was named the Domestic Science Building when it opened in 1916 and then the Home Economics Building. It was renamed in 1952 for Lorenzo Dow Har- vey, the school’s first president from 1908 to 1922. The building, the third academic structure on campus, was erected while Harvey was president.

Dan Jack, left, site superintendent, and 2012 alumnus Matthew Frey, Harvey Hall project manager for Miron Construction, hold a building charter signed by more than 100 renovation project workers.

A grounds crewworker plants flowers in July outside Harvey Hall.

For details about the celebration go to www.uwstout.edu/125/Events.cfm .

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