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	Late May 2008: The extension will be built where the greenhouses are currently sitting.		So the greenhouses have to go...

			June 2008: The site is cleared!

	The brick walls from old animal pens are revealed when the top soil is taken off. These are from when the University was a college with agricultural courses!	Brick walls are removed and the ground smooth and rolled to produce a hard flat surface.	July 2008: The holes are dug for the foundations.

	Concrete is poured in.	Foundation steels are erected.	The steels are clad in concrete

	Scaffolding is erected ready to lay the base for the first floor	August 2008: Shuttering is laid ready to pour the concrete floor	The concrete is poured.

	Prefabricated stairs are lowered in by crane at the corners of the building.	An additional level of shuttering is added which will allow concrete to be poured for the roof.	September 2008: The scaffolding is taken down. This space will be laboratories in the new building.

	Hard core is laid down and mesh is put on top ready for the base layer of concrete	The floor is laid	October 2008: Topping out ceremony held on roof

	The deputy major is presented with a 'trowel' as a memento of the occasion	November 2008: The brick and block walls are started	The internal walls are marked out on the floor.

	Steel work is added to the roof and exterior of the building	January 2009: The supports for the internal walls go in. The offices will be to the left of the corridor and the new laboratories to the right.



	Cladding is added to the outside walls		The window frames go in

		The roofing starts to go on

	The first floor starts to be fitted out.	The plant well on the first floor

	The outside of the building is finished	March 2009:The laboratories start to be fitted out

		May 2009:The exterior of the building starts to be landscaped

			June 2009: The climate controlled room is commissioned ready for use