Elizabethtown College Facilities News 
Back to top 6/23/2006 Hoover Business Building: Construction Update Later this week, the grading of the Hoover Business Building lot will be completed followed next week by paving and lining. Shortly after the paving and lining of the lot, much of the construction fence will be removed to allow the final grading to be done and the installation of the landscaping to begin. Although the lot will look like an available parking lot, it remains an active work area that therefore is not available for faculty and staff parking. Once we complete the final building inspections, pass the Pennsylvania Labor and Industry inspection, receive a certificate of occupancy from Pennsylvania and agree to substantial completion with the contractor, I will let you know that the lot is available for use. Until we achieve these milestones, the building itself is still a construction area, so please do not enter it. There will be lots of time for you to take a tour after we occupy the building, so please look at it from outside the construction area. You can visit the Facilities Management Web site to see current construction pictures of the interior. Back to top 6/15/2006 Hackman Lot blocked 7am-noon on Friday, June 16 On Friday, June 16, the Facilities Management staff will remove an existing air handler from the roof of Founders and set a new air handler. To move the air handlers a rigging company will use a crane located on Cedar Avenue between the Hackman South Lot and Founders A Wing. This crane will block access to the Hackman lot between 7 a.m. and approximately noon. The road between Founders A Wing and the tennis courts also will be blocked while the crane is in use. Since access to the Hackman parking lots will be blocked during this time, please park in front of Founders if you will need your vehicle on Friday morning. Back to top 6/14/2006 Business Building - Site Development Stage The construction of the Business Building has progressed to the site development stage. The walks, parking lot and lighting are the next portions of the project that you will see being completed. As part of this work, the new walks to be constructed around the building will be connected to the existing walks. To do this, we will need to remove the remaining concrete outside the southeast entrance to Nicarry. The demolition will take place Thursday or Friday of this week and stone will be placed where the concrete was removed to allow the exit to be used until the new walks are installed. The removal of the concrete and the installation of the stone walk should take only a day. The installation of the new sidewalk and building entrance will take a few days, but I’ll let you know when this work is scheduled. Please be cautious when walking around the construction. Back to top 6/5/2006 North Parking Lot Changes The demolition of the link between Musser and Esbenshade will begin Wednesday, June 7. Tomorrow after working hours, the north parking lot between Musser and Esbenshade will be barricaded and will not be available for parking until the start of fall semester. High Construction is planning to demolish the Musser/Esbenshade link, construct the portions of the SMEC project that require access through this lot and complete the new parking area this summer. While there will be limited construction access needed to the north portion of the Lyet Wing for Biological Sciences after this fall, parking can resume in this area in the fall. Please contact Facilities Management at ext. 1408 with questions. Back to top 6/2/2006 Construction Update Now that Commencement is over, the summer construction and conference season has begun. As the Hoover Business Center moves toward completion, the construction of the Masters Center for Science, Mathematics and Engineering is beginning. High Construction has installed the construction fence in the Academic Quad south of Esbenshade and north of the connection corridor between Musser and Esbenshade and is beginning construction of the construction access road. Construction vehicle access to the Lyet Wing for Biological Sciences site will be from College Avenue, south on the Chapel access road, across the north end of the Thompson Gym plaza and west into the construction site. Pedestrian access will be maintained into Esbenshade via a fenced crossing from the serpentine walk and along the south side of Esbenshade from the Chapel lot. The north pedestrian accesses to Musser and Esbenshade from College Avenue will be maintained throughout the construction of the Lyet Wing. However, the connecting corridor between Musser and Esbenshade will be closed for demolition early in the project so access from this entrance will be unavailable until the opening of the Lyet Wing in late summer 2007. Given the limited site access there may be times when you will need to wait for construction vehicles to cross sidewalks. The vehicle drivers will exercise caution when driving in these areas, and I ask that you exercise caution when walking or driving around construction vehicles. We have begun the post-construction space reallocation work in Nicarry so that we can open classes in the fall with the departments remaining in Nicarry in their new spaces. Since the activity level in our buildings is significantly reduced for the rest of this month, Environmental Services staff has been redeployed from their normal cleaning program to support the cleaning of the residence halls to prepare them for the first conferences of the season. Cleaning of restrooms will continue on a daily basis but you will see reduced levels of vacuuming and emptying of office wastebaskets during this time. If you are cleaning out your office or storage areas and need an extra trash pick up please call the facilities office at ext. 1408 or send an e-mail to WORKORDER. Thanks for your patience as we perform this essential work in preparation for the start of fall semester.” Back to top 6/2/2006 Power Disruption on May 31st I want to take a minute to brief you on the HVAC issues we encountered yesterday. PP&L encountered power spikes caused by thunderstorms in its service area. The power spikes caused chillers to shut down and fire alarms to go into ‘trouble’ alarms in many of our buildings. The hot weather also has caused equipment failures in Zug. While we await the arrival of a new compressor for the Zug HVAC system, we have installed window air conditioners in the impacted areas. We also encountered a building automation malfunction in the Library on Tuesday morning that had shut down the HVAC system. The HVAC staff restarted the chilling equipment that dropped out, but due to the very hot weather the chillers were unable to catch up until the outside temperature dropped later in the day. We encountered similar ‘catch up’ difficulties in the other buildings that were impacted by the PPL power spikes. PPL was doing some high voltage work at the Quads that could have been the source of the spikes. Since the Quads are on a separate electrical feed than the campus, PPL now feels that the spikes were system-wide rather than confined to the our high-voltage distribution system. Today our HVAC systems – except for the Zug compressor failure that is awaiting the arrival of a replacement compressor – now are operating normally. Thanks for your patience while we dealt with the equipment malfunctions and the power spikes. |
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