U-District Light Rail Station

2 – Demolishing the Existing Buildings

Gallery November 8, 2015 Eric Kool-Brown

May through June 2013

The buildings on the site were removed to make way for the light rail station.

A long-armed excavator with a "nibbler" attachment severs steel beams like they were paper. — A long-armed excavator with a “nibbler” attachment severs steel beams like they were paper.

A second excavator takes the refuse and neatly stacks it into recyclable and non-recyclable piles.

Not much left of the bank.

The concrete box is the bank vault. Its thick concrete walls soon yielded to the hydraulic breaker.

There was a lot of rebar in that vault. It all got hauled off to be recycled.

The former UW building didn't take long to demolish. — The former UW building didn’t take long to demolish.

A photographic archive of some recent UW construction projects