NEW BUILDINGS FOR ENGINEERS
Civil and Electrical Mining and Mechanical and Power Structures.
Many Well Equipped Laboratories New Structures — Ready Next September.
Three new buildings will be added to the eleven now on the University campus by the first of next September. All of these will be for the use of the engineering school and will be located west of Robinson's gymnasium. When these buildings are opened for occupancy all the engineering departments of English, foreign languages and mathematics will be moved to the main engineering building. This is to be done because under the present system of hours the buildings are too far separated.
Two of the buildings, the one known as the saw tooth building and the other as the engineering building, are being constructed in such a way that additions can be built to them when needed.
built to them when needed The engineering department will ask the legislature to appropriate money for an electrical laboratory to be added to the saw tooth building. The east wing of the main building is arranged so that it can be extended 150 feet to the south It was built principally for the civil engineering and mechanical departments.
The Engineering Building.
The main engineering building when completed and fully equipped will cost $90,000. This building is so planned that the weight of the floors rest on the main walls of the building. If a change of partitions is wanted it can be effected without impairing the strength of the building in the least. The floors are of the slow burning mill construction resting on beams doubled, with a fireproof deadener of asbestos between them. The basement has a concrete floor. The fourth floor is finished with the under side of the roof beams, thus economizing every foot of space in the building.
foot of space in the building This is the only building on the campus which is adequately provided with offices for the instructors, there being fourteen of these. There are fifteen class rooms, six drawing rooms, three blue print rooms, five laboratories, one locker room for the civil engineers, ont lecture room and a library and reading room in the building.
The general features of the floor plans and the location with regard to the other buildings on the campus was worked out by Dean Marvin of the engineering school. The detailed drawings were made by John H. Stanton, state architect.
The drawing rooms on the fourth floor will be lighted by skylights. the others will be fitted with powerful Gem lamps which will be so distributed that the intensity of the light will not vary over five per cent in any part of the room. Two of the blue print rooms are to be for sum printing and the other one for electric printing. In the C.E. locker room there will be a complete set of field instruments in a single locker so that each field party will have a full set of instruments all the time.
The lecture room is to have a seating capacity of four hundred people. It will be fitted with a permanent lantern and the windows will be arranged for darkening the room when desired. It will be seated with the best type of portable chairs. The room was not made in the ampitheatre style, so it will be possible at any time to clear the floor and make a general utility room of it. The purpose is to have the engineer's social functions at this place.
A materials, a concrete, a cement, a sanitary and a road materials testing laboratory will be locat
ed in the basement. The feature of these laboratories is the mammoth 200,000 Olsen Universal testing machine with extension table in the materials testing division. It will take a twenty foot beam, columns up to ten feet and a tension piece up to eight feet.
The building is to be heated hy a combination of fan driven hot air and direct coil radiators. There are to be two systems of electricity in the building, one a direct 220 volt current for power and the other one an alternating 110 volt current for lighting purposes. The ordinary 16 candle power incandescent carbon filament light will be used except in the drawing rooms which are to have 100 candle power Gem lamps, so arranged as to give an even light.
Mining Building.
The mining building, being erected between the gymnasium and the new engineering building, will cost when completed over 850,000. The structure will look much like Green hall.
With two stories and basement the department of geology and mining engineering will be well housed. The building will be in two parts separated by a space of seven feet. In the large main part will be located the offices of the faculty, the museum and the large recitation rooms. Laboratories of all description will be profuse in all parts of the building.
The smaller part will be one story and basement and here will be located the mining laboratories equipped for all kinds of testing and experimental work
A feature of the structure will be a fire proof vault where valuable manuscripts on research work may be safely kept. The windows will be large and high and the rooms will be well lighted.
The miners can move into their new home next September.
Saw-tooth Building.
The saw-tooth building, being built at the extreme southwest corner of the campus, will be the home of the new power plant and the engineering laboratories. When completed the building will be made up of five bays, but for the present but two of these will be finished. The power plant will be in the south bay and the mechanical engineering laboratory will be fitted up in the north ones. P.F. Walker, professor of mechanical engineering, and director of the shops, will have charge of the work in the building.
Power Plant.
The power plant is to be equipped with the best procurable machinery. These are to be two Bonus-Kennicott water tube boilers fitted with Green economizers. The boilers are so arranged that the feed water to the boiler is heated by flue gasses, thereby economizing on the amount of heat required for the boilers. They are also equipped with automatic feeders for the furnace. In the boiler room there is to be a 100-horse power Sterling water tube boiler to be used for experimental purposes. With regard to this boiler, it is so arranged that tests connected with steam generation and the prevention of smoke can be made. Several styles of grates are to be used in the furnaces to determine which is the most economic one for Kansas coal. All the apparatus for the boiler room is to be arranged so that it may be used for experimental work.
In the engine room there is to be a 150 kilowatt direct connected cross compound Ball engine which will operate a 150 kilowatt wire direct current Western electric generator. The current thus derived will be used for driving the motors in the different university buildings. This current may also be converted by a motor generator set into an alternating current and then used for lighting purposes. In addition to these there is to be
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Mechanical Laboratory.
power switch board There is to be a producer gas
This room is to be fitted with a 150 horse power Corliss cross compound engine with belt connections to a 55 k. w. generator which in turn is connected by coupling to a 100 horse power Riverside gas engine. The current from this generator can be supplied directly to the University by the power plant switch board.
plant in this laboratory which will supply gas for the gas engines. Besides the large gas engines there will be several smaller ones equipped for the use of gas, gasoline, kerosene or alcohol. There are a series of circulating pumps for the surface condensers which will be operated by a De Laval steam turbine.
In the gallery over the laboratory a room will be used for coal analysis, flue gas analysis, lubricant and fuel oil work, and steam calorimetry. One room called the oil room, will be fitted with apparatus to determine the properties of oil such as the flash and chill points; and also to investigate the value of crude oils for steam generation purposes. There will be research rooms for special investigations.