Building Improvements, Campus Renovations Ramp Up This Summer

The Department of Facilities Management team is overseeing multiple projects on campus this summer, including renovations and upgrades that will improve living and work areas for Duquesne students and employees in time for the new school year.

Construction and renovation projects currently underway include:

• Crews will power wash Assumption Hall’s exterior and complete windows replacements this month. The student rooms are receiving many new upgrades, such as: new plank floors, LED lighting, fresh wall paint, solar shades, USB charging outlets, digitally controlled thermostats, and new solid wood doors and lock sets. This summer, Assumption Hall’s laundry room, bathrooms and shower rooms will undergo complete renovations.
• Several Living Learning Centers will be equipped with new hydration stations.
• In Vickroy Hall, new LED lighting will be installed in the corridors and stairwells, as well as a new community kitchen in which students can prepare their own meals.
• This summer, facilities management is wrapping up a multiyear renovation of St. Ann Hall bathrooms and showers. Also, the student rooms will be freshly painted and will now have solid wood doors with ADA-compliant lever handle lock sets.
• Towers also enters its final year of renovations to the student living areas: new finishes, plank flooring, solid wood doors with ADA-compliant lever handle lock sets, security improvements, and updated laundry rooms and kitchens on each floor.
• In Rockwell Hall, crews are renovating the vacated Psychology Clinic space on the ninth floor into brand new offices for the School of Business. The Peter Mills Theater is being remodeled into a new lecture hall. New T sprinklers are being added throughout the building, and new emergency generators, fire pump, dual fire/water services and chilled water service are being installed.
• Facilities management is transforming Fisher Hall’s current large lecture hall into a state-of-the-art, tiered lecture hall.
• Other facility projects this summer include the Energy Center’s new boilers as part of the steam expansion project; a new biomedical engineering research/teaching lab in Libermann Hall; renovation to the lab in Room 328 of Mellon Hall; preventive maintenance in Duquesne’s parking garages, and street repaving on campus.