Welcome Welcome to the Great Excavations Web site! During the summer and early fall of 2002, this site will bring you news about the second phase of Great Excavations, the massive transformation of the Homewood campus that started with Phase One in the summers of 2000 and 2001. When Phase Two is complete, a whole new section of campus -- the area around Levering Hall, with Hodson to the west, Garland to the south, Latrobe to the east and Gilman to the north -- will be transformed. Cars, trucks and asphalt will be gone from this pedestrian-intensive area. In their place, we'll find a far greener, far more beautiful, far more pedestrian-friendly, and far safer area of campus on which to study, work and play. Get an idea of what it will look like here. But there ain't no gain without pain. Or, as our GX mascot Charles Diggins might have put it, sometimes you have to get through the worst of times to get to the best of times. There's no question that we're in for a rough couple of months. There will be noise; there will be mud. Construction fences will block our usual routes through the area. And there will also be new construction projects elsewhere on campus: a new chemistry building and parking deck west of Mudd Hall. New signs and wayfinding kiosks across campus. By fall, work will begin on a office/parking complex across San Martin Drive. These projects will also cause disruptions and force us to find temporary new walking routes. Some of us will have to find new places to park, This site will provide you with the latest information possible on construction schedules, utility outages, location of temporary walking paths and anything else you need to know. We'll try to help you minimize the inconvenience.
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