History
The original student Student Competition Center was located at the center of campus in the shadow of Tech Tower. The original facility, dubbed the "Tin Building" by students and professors, was constructed in 1941 and originally stood in Savannah, GA. The facility was used to manufacture Sherman tanks during World War II. Following the war, the structure was deconstructed and moved to the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta. It served as laboratory space and held offices for mechanical engineering faculty until the 1990's, when the building was re-purposed to house the student competition teams who had outgrown their original meeting space in the basement of the Coon building.
The facility housed build areas and offices for each team, along with an assortment of common machine tools shared by the students. However, as the number of teams grew, the shop became cramped and the safety of the facility was called into question. The building itself, with its broken windows and generally shabby appearance, was also regarded as an eye-sore. In response to these concerns, Institute President Bud Peterson met with competition team leaders early in the spring of 2010 to announce the Institute's plan to raze the building and relocate the teams to an off-campus warehouse leased by Georgia Tech. The institute planned to construct greenspace in the area that the Tin Building occupied.
Facilities officials worked closely with the teams to design a facility that was suited to their needs. The institute paid for all construction and moving expenses, totaling in excess of a million dollars. The new facility opened in January 2011, with more than five times the build and office space as the Tin Building.
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