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No arguments from my son but the amount of construction on campus is amazing. First 2 towers are coming down within weeks. The last 2 four months later. Feel bad for the kids as housing will be impacted and they are going to have to navigate around a bunch of construction during their time on campus.
Wow, I think the original plan was to tear down Hecht first, build the first phase of Centennial Village, and then tear down Stanford in a couple of years (finishing Centennial about 4 years from now). It is impressive to see them trying to do it all at once.
As you said, the construction will suck, but it might just be better take the pain for a couple of years and then be completely done ahead of schedule.
When I was an undergrad, UM was digging HUGE trenches all over campus in order to link the air conditioning system. Apparently, it was more energy efficient to run A/C 24 hours a day, but by pooling the capacity of all the A/C units all over campus. So they connected most of the buildings with a massive underground piping loop, and it took a year or two to complete the whole project.