Temporary Buildings

There are many Temporary Buildings on Campus. The "temporary" part of their name seems to be indicative mostly of their construction, as hardly any of them ever get torn down or replaced. A lot of them are collected together to the East of Walker Hall.

These buildings go by 'TB #' on SISWEB. Classes and labs take place in the various temporary buildings aross campus.

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According to Assistant Vice Chancellor of Campus Planning Robert Segar¹, as of 2004, not a single temporary building constructed has ever been removed. TB 001 is still standing and in use on west campus. As of March 2006, this record has been broken as the temporary buildings on the site of Giedt Hall are being demolished to make way for the new lecture hall. In addition, the Physical Sciences Expansion is being built in place of existing temporary buildings as well.

There have however been a number of "non-permanent" buildings that have been and gone. An example would be the trailer complex known as the "Admin Annex" that used to be south of the Buehler Center. There are also gaps in the numbering system such as TB 4, which may be due to TB's getting renamed... and then removed once renamed. Records indicate that TB 8 dates from 1908, but TB 1 dates to 1947.

• TB 115: Risk Management Services
  

• TB 112: Design multimedia lab
  

• TB 13: Davis Student Co-Op
  

• TB 116: Adult Development Lab
  

• TB 205

There's another group of temporary buildings west of Academic Surge named Temporary Classrooms 1-3. Temporary Classroom 3, is routinely used for lectures. It goes by the designation "TEMCL3" on Sisweb (or even more obtusely, "3 TEMCL3"). So if you got to this page by searching the wiki for TEMCL3, now you know where it is, and the internet has worked.

When was the first temporary building built?

The information that the campus has is not perfect, but TB 8 is listed as having been built in 1908. The record keeping is difficult because some buildings predate the campus.