External skeleton to be completed in next month
The new Darla Moore School of Business is getting close to moving on to its next stage.
Loveless Commercial Contractor Inc. and Owens Steel have finished building a steel skeleton and pouring concrete on three of the buildings sides, said Jeff Lamberson, Facilities’ director of design and construction. The fourth side, which faces Park Street to the west, will be done within a month.
When that’s done, in early February, USC will hold a ceremony to commemorate the finish of that stage, the “most dramatic” one, Lamberson said.
Then, B.L. Harbert, a Birmingham, Ala., construction firm, will take over, enclosing the building with walls and starting on its internal work, filling it in with rooms and infrastructure.
That process will take about a year to finish, Lamberson said.
“We’re right on schedule,” he said.
And in the meantime, even as the equipment that built its structure moves out, there won’t be much of a change in parking by the Carolina Coliseum.
Much of the parking space there has been taken up with equipment and offices over the last year, and it’ll stay that way when B.L. Harbert starts its work on the building, Lamberson said.