Campus Crews Busy with Construction and Maintenance Projects

The familiar sounds of summer construction have returned, as crews prepare for the upcoming academic school year with upgrades and maintenance projects across campus.

Projects schedule for this summer include:

  • Ongoing upgrades will continue below Academic Walk to the steam tunnel, a subterranean conduit containing heating and communications infrastructure. In addition, the paving above ground will get a crown, which will create a slight elevation to better drain water toward the walkway’s edge into new catch basins.
  • Since the School of Nursing’s simulation lab in Fisher Hall has been relocated to a new space on the fifth floor of Libermann Hall, the previous lab space on Fisher Hall’s fifth floor will be converted into 21 offices for nursing school staff.
  • The Office of Admissions space on the first floor of the Administration building will be renovated to create a more aesthetically pleasing main corridor that serves as a reception area to prospective students and their families.
  • The landscape on the east and northeast sides of College Hall will be enhanced.
  • In the Union Ballroom, an enclosure will be installed to replace the blue curtains that hide food service carts during events in that venue. The new enclosure will have insulated, full-height partition walls and double-acting swinging doors.
  • The traffic signal at Forbes Avenue and Chatham Square will be upgraded.
  • Phase two of the biomedical engineering program’s renovation to the fourth floor of Libermann Hall will be completed, and will include the addition of a new lab, offices and a corridor.
  • A biology and a chemistry lab will be renovated in Mellon Hall.
  • General renovations will take place on floors six, seven and eight of the Towers residence hall.
  • As part of a multi-year project, bathroom renovations will take place on the third floor of St. Ann Hall.
  • Preventive maintenance will be done in the campus parking garages.
  • The exterior of The Genesius Project, the University’s new multipurpose theater, is nearing completion. The theater will be ready to open the fall semester. Seitz Street, the road that runs along the new theater construction and the Mary Pappert School of Music, will be repaved.
  • Campus wide projects include elevator, safety and alarm system upgrades; roof and masonry repairs; door, window and lighting fixture replacements; and plastering, caulking and painting.