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Discuss “Gates Center construction on schedule”

One year after the final plans for Carnegie Mellon’s new computer science complex were unveiled, construction continues. The complex will eventually hold the Gates Center and its accompanying, still-unnamed research building in the area between Newell-Simon Hall and the Purnell Center for the Arts.

Currently, concrete walls are going up for the complex’s underground, 150-car garage, which can be viewed from Purnell.

This is the first step of the project; the entire complex is expected to be completed in 2009.

The project is completely on schedule, said Ralph Horgan, associate vice-provost of campus design and facility development.

“The next step after the construction of the concrete garage will be steel going up around February,”...

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