photo by: Sara Shepherd

Construction on KU's new Earth, Energy and Environment Center, or EEEC, on the northeast corner of 15th Street and Naismith Drive, is pictured on Wednesday, July 6, 2016. Adjacent to Lindley Hall, the building — featuring two towers, Ritchie Hall and Slawson Hall — is scheduled for completion in fall 2017.

For the Kansas University community members who’ve left campus for the summer, here are just a few snapshots of what’s going on construction-wise while you’re away.

This should enable you a glimpse of the unusually high amount of construction activity without having to maneuver the labyrinth that is campus with all its summer road closures and dead ends — or hiking up the hill in the seemingly incessant heat advisories we’ve had lately in Lawrence.

Framing is up on the EEEC building, which is dramatically going to change the look of the corner of 15th and Naismith. It used to be a parking lot.

photo by: Sara Shepherd

Construction on KU's new Earth, Energy and Environment Center, or EEEC, on the northeast corner of 15th Street and Naismith Drive, is pictured on Wednesday, July 6, 2016. Adjacent to Lindley Hall, the building — featuring two towers, Ritchie Hall and Slawson Hall — is scheduled for completion in fall 2017.

This is the vacant field on Daisy Hill formerly home to McCollum Hall. Look close and you can see curbs for a parking lot taking shape.

photo by: Sara Shepherd

Debris has been hauled off and crews are working to build a parking lot in the space on Daisy Hill where McCollum Hall once stood, pictured Wednesday, July 6, 2016.

There’s a lot of activity in KU’s Central District where the old Burge Union used to be, just west of Anschutz Sports Pavilion. This sea of dirt will eventually be home to a new student union, an integrated science building and a parking garage.

photo by: Sara Shepherd

Construction in KU's Central District is pictured Wednesday, July 6, 2016. This area will be home to a new student union and integrated science building.

Concrete has been poured for the new Central District residence and dining hall, going up behind Oliver Hall. (There’s also a new student apartment complex going up at 19th and Ousdahl, but with 19th Street closed and construction fences blocking the area from the other side, I couldn’t very well get over there to see its status.)

photo by: Sara Shepherd

Work has begun on the new residence and dining hall behind Oliver Hall on the KU campus, pictured Wednesday, July 6, 2016.

Finally, Memorial Drive is out of commission this summer as crews work to reconstruct it, along with the portion of West Campus Road just past the Chi Omega Fountain.

photo by: Sara Shepherd

The Memorial Drive reconstruction project is pictured Wednesday, July 6, 2016.

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• I’m the Journal-World’s KU and higher ed reporter. See all the newspaper’s KU coverage here. Reach me by email at sshepherd@ljworld.com, by phone at 832-7187, on Twitter @saramarieshep or via Facebook at Facebook.com/SaraShepherdNews.