First concrete panels go up on new SEL building

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc,. announced the company’s new 98,000-square-foot building in Pullman, which is expected to be completed by May, has been named after SEL Distinguished Engineer Stanley E. Zocholl, who died in August at age 83. He held 26 U.S. patents, seven with SEL, and 46 international patents. He joined SEL in 1991 and was widely respected in the industry.

Walls for the concrete tilt-up building hit the skyline Monday when a 250-ton crane lifted the first of 34 concrete panels weighing between 160,000 and 230,000 pounds into place. The three-story building is the fir...