Bricks fall on Computing Services building

Crews begin demolition of the Computing Services building.

Anderson Excavation Monday began demolition on the UNMC Computing Services building, the last of 12 buildings to be razed from 40th to 42nd Street for the new Center for Health Science Education.

The site — which will be the first true home for the UNMC College of Medicine — will replace obsolete and insufficient facilities with state-of-the-art classrooms and class laboratories, including clinical simulation rooms, many small-group instruction rooms, several amphitheaters and a campus events center.

Demolition on the 40,750-square-foot building is expected to take about one week, said Don Dickmeyer of Facilities Management and Planning. It will take another week to clear the rubble.

In January, crews will drill holes for the new building’s concrete pilings, which act as underground ‘stilts,’ Dickmeyer said. The 134,183-square-foot Center for Health Science Education will rise from that foundation.