An Ever-Growing Collection of News, Features & Achievements
From a Year Ago…to Now It has been almost exactly a year since gross demolition began on the northern part of the Daniels wing: The old lecture rooms, some classrooms, parts of some labs, and the chemistry library have been demolished and a huge pit was excavated. Since then our new tower has risen from …
New Tower. There is a lot happening in the new tower than cannot be seen from the loading dock or other locations in our existing building—and a lot that can be seen. Last week concrete was poured for the rest of the second floor. This week the west side of the fourth floor is being …
New Tower. In the two weeks since the last newsletter the tower has continued to grow rapidly. Flatbed truckloads of bubble-deck arrive on a regular basis, columns are being poured and extended above the second-floor level, shoring is being constructed to support concrete for the second floor, and rebar/bubble-deck assemblies are being installed. This week …
New Tower. There has been more snow and more cold weather, but construction of the tower is moving ahead rapidly, nevertheless. All concrete for the first floor has now been poured, with the last section completed Thursday. On Friday afternoon it was toasty warm in the plastic-enclosed area below the fresh concrete and, when the insulating …
New Tower. Despite the snow, melting snow, and cold weather, a lot of work has been done on the tower this past week. Last Thursday concrete was poured for the second-floor area that will become our new Information Commons (library). There was some concern that the weather might be too cold for the concrete to …
Next week will bring a significant change to the traffic pattern around the chemistry complex. A portion of Mills St will be completely closed until summer 2020. The construction team needs to place a large crane in Mills Street, between University Ave and Conklin Ct. The crane is needed for the construction of the tower …
The driveway to the chemistry loading dock will be inaccessible on Thu Nov 7th and Mon Nov 11th. On Thursday, a concrete pump truck will be used to pour a portion of the floor slab for the second floor. On Monday, construction crews will be using a conveyer system to back-fill around the foundation walls on the …
New Tower. The loading dock was closed on Tuesday and Wednesday last week for backfilling of gravel around the sub-basement and basement walls. Unfortunately, weather has slowed installation of waterproofing and insulation on the upper part of these walls. Our Halloween snowstorm has left heavy wet snow around the tops of these walls, water is …
The driveway to the chemistry loading dock will be inaccessible on Tue Nov 5th and Thu Nov 7th. On Tuesday, construction crews will be using a conveyer system to back-fill around the foundation walls on the west half of the new tower. On Thursday, a concrete pump truck will be used to pour a portion …
The construction team needs to make a brief shutdown to the natural gas service to the Daniels wing – TODAY – Fri Nov 1st. The outage will commence at approximately 10:00 am and last approximately 2-3 hours. – Robert J. McMahon