Construction manager Bart Dobson, facilities planning and management, summarizes the internal abatement and materials removal necessary before LeBaron Hall is ready for demolition. Photos by Christopher Gannon.
Following about seven weeks of abatement and indoor materials removal, crews are ready to demolish what remains of the 66-year-old LeBaron Hall on central campus. Some interior demolition, including the west walls that divide LeBaron from the Human Nutrition Sciences Building, are being removed this week. Demolition and removal of the building structure is scheduled to begin Monday and take about two weeks.
The College of Human Sciences' $39 million project to replace LeBaron with a state-of-the-art teaching and laboratory facility will continue into fall semester 2026.
A worker tosses one of the last buckets of debris into a dumpster outside LeBaron Hall Tuesday morning.
