Category: Building Updates

COVID-19. Although the department has shut down due to the COVID-19 situation, we thought it would be helpful to continue to supply information about the progress of various construction projects—at least to provide as much information as we can get. Here is an update as of Friday, March 20. At this writing we don’t know …

New Tower. Last week was incredibly productive. Concrete was poured for the west side of the seventh floor on Thursday. On Friday, the area of the sixth floor below the new pour was above 90 °F and the concrete itself above 100 °F despite outdoor temperatures in the 20s. By Friday afternoon rebar for columns …

Mock-up. The mock-up in parking lot 45, across Mills Street from the power plant, was tested for water tightness last Tuesday and passed a slightly more stringent test than was required (12 psi versus 10 psi). More curtain wall needs to be built and water tested before mock-up testing is complete, but we are off …

CLC Renovation. Renovation of part of the fourth floor of the Medical Sciences Center (MSC) for the Chemistry Leaning Center (CLC) continues on schedule. Plans are underway to move the CLC in the middle of May this year. The main space with a reception area, offices for CLC staff, and some of the teaching rooms …

New Tower. The view from the top of our new tower is great and gets better every couple weeks as a new floor is added. Concrete will have been poured for the west side of the sixth floor of the tower by the time you read this. On Friday workers were finishing installation of “bubble …

Crawler Crane Luffer Jib. Since last Thursday Mills Street has been completely closed from Johnson Street to University Avenue so that a luffer jib can be added to the large red crawler crane that has been working in Mills Street for the past month or so. On Friday afternoon a defective electrical component delayed erection …

Lab Mock-up. A sampling of representative fume hoods, lab counters and casework, cabinets, sinks, and cabinets has been available since Wednesday of last week for examination by those who will be overseeing our new laboratory facilities. The lab mock-up shows that we will have great-looking facilities when the tower construction and Daniels renovation are completed. …

Daniels Eighth Floor. Installation of sprinklers began last week and is proceeding according to plan. Last Monday morning about a dozen people from the construction team, FP&M, and chemistry checked that the eighth floor was ready for workers to begin drilling through walls and installing pipes. Occupants of the eighth floor had prepared the area …

New Tower. While many of us have been celebrating holidays the construction team has been working hard to raise our tower higher and higher. What they had achieved by the end of the year is shown here: On Thursday, December 19, a concrete pump truck occupied the loading-dock area to pour the west side of …

The construction schedule has been revised, again; the driveway to the chemistry loading dock will be inaccessible on Thu Dec 19th. A concrete pump truck will be used to pour a portion of the floor slab for the fourth floor. Please plan accordingly. For the Facilities Committee, Bob McMahon John Moore Jeff Nielsen Matt Sanders