Part of MSU breezeway collapses; no injuries

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By The Associated Press

Story Published: Jun 25, 2009 at 5:58 AM MST

Story Updated: Jun 25, 2009 at 5:58 AM MST

BOZEMAN - MSU officials are looking into what might have caused a large concrete panel that supports a breezeway on campus to collapse.

MSU spokesman Tracy Ellig says the breezeway, which connects the wings of the Johnstone Center, is supported by a series of arches about 20 feet apart with concrete panels in between. One of the panels fell to the sidewalk at about 3 p.m. Wednesday. No one was injured.

The spokesman says two pieces of rebar that hold the roof to a structural archway broke and could have been weather-damaged and weakened through corrosion. The archway was last inspected in 2007 and is believed to have been built in 1955.

Ellig says the area will remain taped off until it can be re-inspected.

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