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Here’s where 2,000 sunburst chairs go when they leave UW-Madison’s terrace

The time to pack away 2,000 sunburst chairs for the winter has come, and Wisconsin Union project engineer Joel Gerrits has the plan all laid out, broken down into five-minute increments.

“Here, if you look at the bottom,” Gerrits said, pointing to a printout he created. “That’s almost 3,000 pieces of furniture. It does take a long time to unload, and then stack, put them away, so it’s not like we just go there and dump them.”