Fences surround the Glover Building as it is being decommissioned Monday, Oct. 20 in Fort Collins. The building went offline on Friday, Oct. 17. Photo by Robert Sides.
By Robert Sides
The Ramspondents
Readers may have noticed safety fences surrounding the Glover Building near the Lory Student Center. This is due to the building’s decommissioning.
The Glover Building closed its doors on Friday, Oct. 17. Starting this week, Glover will be decommissioned with a plan for demolition beginning in January.
The Don and Susie Law Engineering Future Technologies Building will replace Glover. This new building will serve as the hub for education and research in engineering, computer science and artificial intelligence.
The project is expected to take up a significant area. The paths to Glover’s west and east will be closed during the construction process. The routes have been roped off early to avoid disruption in student movement.
“The only problem I would have would be from coming from the Morgan Library over here,” said Augusto Jerez, CSU engineering exploratory studies student. “If they block off this area, I probably wouldn't be able to get past very well. So I'd probably have to go all the way around it.”
The Glover building was constructed in 1949 and was originally a veterinary hospital but was later fitted to house engineering classrooms and labs. Since then, several more buildings have been constructed in its vicinity, and the building has become less effective in serving its purpose. This inadequacy is the main reason for its replacement with the Don and Susie Law building.
“The Glover Building is not really set up to enable these kinds of interactions and these kinds of opportunities for our students,” said Thomas Bradley, Woodward professor and head of the Department of Systems Engineering. “It really has fallen out of use and fallen out of step with the time of what we need to have happened in the building. The new building is going to have a variety of things that are really going to accomplish this.”
The area is currently off-limits but future students will have a new building to enjoy. The Don and Susie Law Engineering Future Technologies building is scheduled to open in summer 2028.
Robert Sides is a second-year student at Colorado State University and a reporter for Rocky Mountain Student Media. He is also the treasurer of CSU’s student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.