Construction, Renovation Mark Winthrop Campus

Carroll Hall will contain a business and trading center, thanks to a donation by Vivian `73 and Larry Carroll of Charlotte, N.C.

One of the signature features of Tillman Hall will change this summer – the green copper roof of the 114-year-old building.

Workers will redo the tower’s cone in July as part of a major roof replacement project that started last year. Walter Hardin, associate vice president for facilities management, said the old green copper roof will be sent off and copied exactly so new, shiny copper panels can be installed on Winthrop’s administration building.

C.E. Bourne & Company of Greenwood, S.C., expects to put the final touches on the roof this fall.

In one of the campus’ largest projects, Carroll Hall is quickly taking shape for the College of Business Administration near Thurmond Building. The steel is in place, and the contractor has poured the building’s concrete floors.

Faculty members look forward to using the space to show students and area businesses how capital markets influence the global economy. It should be ready to open in fall 2009.

Closer to the center of the campus, work continues on the new campus center in the footprint of the demolished Peabody Gymnasium. Hardin said crews spent the last few weeks driving 231 pilings to fortify the ground in what was a former spring. The piles go down 65 feet so they can hold up to 200 tons each.

Other repairs and renovations this summer and fall include:

• Adding sprinklers in Thomson Hall. It is the last of Winthrop’s eight residence halls to add this form of fire detection.

• Replacing the roof on Dacus Library.

• Placing bricks on the road to create Scholar’s Walk from the Conservatory of Music to McBryde Hall.

• Renovating the stage rigging and lighting in Byrnes Auditorium.

• Restoring windows in the historic Tillman Hall. The windows will retain the building’s historic character and its National Register of Historic Places status.