Moving Right Along

Considerable progress has been made with drywall and the crew even worked the weekend to move forward on drywalling so that painting can begin soon.  We've also gotten the furniture officially ordered so hopefully this will come together smoothly in about a month.

Later this week or early next week we are expecting to cut the doors into SCUA that forms the access for egress, painting should start (if you smell the fumes) and then more electical work.

Walls are going up!

The drywall has started going up in ERIT to form the new walls.

There is also HVAC work and electrical work happening at the same time.  An interesting note about a tool not used before in our construction projects, this mat helps keep dusty feet from tracking elsewhere in the building.  Just wanted to share :-)

Progress Report 3/14

Yesterday the work in the Reading Room on the first floor and in ILL was related to sealing off the radiators that have been removed from ERIT's space on the second floor.

The pipes had to be cleaned and sealed and thus precautions were taken to ensure dust and particles were not released into the air.  The air quality in the room was also monitored.

Also, the doors leading into SCUA are sealed for now until they are relocated, this is also to keep down dust.

More new materials have arrived, this is the new vents for the modifications to the HAVC,

And this is what the new walls are starting to look like with conduit and control divices being installed.

New walls up already

Yesterday was a very successful day for our construction project.  The demo materials were removed and new building materials brought in and started.  They've actually framed out the new walls already:

Work in the first floor reading room mentioned earlier will occur later in the week as well as cutting new doors in the SCUA back areas.  "So far so good!"

And the Walls come Tumbling Down

Or at least knocked down and piled up!  This week the crew has completed most of the demo in ERIT as demonstrated below:

They are staging the debris in order to hand carry out next week.  The plan next week is to carry out the demo'd materials and carry in new materials needed for rebuilding.  They will be taking advantage of spring break and will do this using the wider marble monument stairs next to the College Ave. entrance.
So, please avoid those stairs yourself next week in order to accommodate this activity related to the project.

We are offically started

The room is ready and the ERIT renovation project has officially started this week with the contractor placing orders and making prepartations.  So most of what happens this week we will not see, but starting next week, this is what to expect.  Next week will be the demo week and the expectation is that the walls etc., to be torn down will be exited out a window, on the Spencer side, into a dump truck.

The following week is our Spring Break and the plan is to bring in as much of the new materials as possible, they will be coming in the College Ave door and up the momument steps.  This is to keep as much traffic as possible out of the DMC and archives.

At some point in the project there will be a power shutdown to add in a breaker, wires will be run across the lobby from ERIT to the IT closet in the 216 conference room and toward the end we will have to do a 10% alarm test on the new devices.

More details to come as we get closer to each day but just wanted to let you know the ball is rolling.  And this should be a short project so ERIT will be back before you know it.

Next Project - ERIT renovation

Our next renovation project has begun and to share some information so far:  you know the ERIT staff have temporarily relocated and can be found as follows:

Name	Building	Room	Phone
Bucknall, Tim	Main	217	256-1216
Bernhardt, Beth	Main	240	256-1210
Brandsma, Terry	Main	240	256-1218
Birkner, Charles	Tower	263	256-1220
Reeder, Michael	Tower	264	256-1219
Cross, Cheryl	Tower	265	334-9851
Biggers, Brown	Tower	266	334-5135
Graves, Franklin	Tower	267	256-1211
Cox, Richard	Tower	268	334-4725
Nanez, Danny	Tower	269	256-1215
Apple, Vanessa	Tower	270	334-9728
Filar-Williams, Beth	Tower	565	256-1232

Old space has been vacated:

Old furniture moving out:

And plans approved for renovation:

What you will see starting next week is a kick-off pre-construction meeting and more information as to what to expect during this short project.  We are expecting to move back in during May. 
mc