An Ever-Growing Collection of News, Features & Achievements
Chemistry Learning Center. We are happy to report that bids are in for the new facilities of the Chemistry Learning Center (CLC). The general contractor will be Advanced Building Corporation. Their bid was very slightly above the budgeted amount, but within a range easily accommodated by contingency funds in the budget. Renovation of the new …
New Tower. Progress was modest during the past week. The major accomplishment involved work in the sub-basement of the Daniels building. Construction of the rooms that will contain the electrical sub-station for the new tower and the emergency generator for the new tower / Daniels / Mathews wings was completed by pouring the concrete ceilings …
New Tower. The main activity of the past week was the preparation for a day-long session (4:30 am – 4:30 pm) of pouring concrete on Wed July 31st. The first major section to be poured was the basement-level floor slab above the mechanical room at the sub-basement level of the new tower. This area represents …
The closure of the chemistry loading dock, originally scheduled for 4:00am – 10:30am on Wed July 31st, has been rescheduled for 4:15am – 11:00am on Thurs Aug 1st. – Bob McMahon
New Tower. During the past two weeks concrete has been poured in the sub-basement level for some of the columns that will hold the weight of the nine floors above. Concrete has also been poured for the sub-basement part of the walls of the elevator shafts, and concrete walls have been poured on two sides …
New Tower. Because of the holiday, last week was a three-day work week, so there is less to report than usual. Work continues in the sub-basement and on the trusses that were installed last week at the University Avenue and Mills Street corner of the excavation. A major operation was pouring concrete for the foundations …
New Tower. A second set of trusses, each weighing about 73,500 pounds, has been successfully installed. These trusses span the 250-seat lecture room and will support the weight of eight stories of the northeast corner of the building, including the advanced synthesis lab on the sixth floor, the undergraduate research projects lab on the seventh …
Mills Street and University Avenue. From 7 pm, Friday, June 28 through late Sunday, June 30, Mills Street will be closed and traffic will be reduced to two lanes in University Avenue. This is necessitated by installation of three trusses, each weighing about 73,000 pounds, needed to support the weight of eight floors of our …
New Tower. The new tower is rising rapidly. The sequence of photos below, which starts about a month ago, show the rapid rise of the stairwell that will serve the west side of the new tower. From a concrete slab at the bottom of the excavation the stairwell has risen to from sub-basement to basement …
New Tower. Most of the excitement this week involved installation of two 50-ton trusses and several cross members on the steel columns that were erected several weeks ago. This process began with preparation of gravel pads to support the weight of the large mobile crane that erected the tower crane last week. The crane was …