I just looked at the live shot of the construction site (http://www.sohe.wisc.edu/) and the hole gets deeper by the day. It's really pretty cool to think in just a few months how much and how fast the work has been done.The mass excavation started on May 3 and will take about 25-30 working days to complete. According to our campus project manager, Angela Pakes Ahlman, the contractor should be able fill about 12 trucks per hour, or about 120 per day. Yowza!
Because I am a visual learner (and my office sits in Mechanical Engineering, facing Camp Randall) I was curious...just how much dirt are we talking about?
Well, 
each truck will carry ~15 cubic yards (cy) of dirt.
each truck will carry ~15 cubic yards (cy) of dirt. So 15x120 = 1,800 cy/day x ~25 days = 45,000 cy dirt or ~1,215,000 cubic feet of solid dirt.
That’s not Camp Randall, it’s about 22.5% of the Kohl Center or roughly 303,750,000 hockey pucks!
Go Badgers!
