After a 12 minute conversation with the incredibly nice Jeffery Lallas, The Director of Facilities Planning, Design and Construction, many questions have been answered.
First off, yes, construction will be modified during finals week!!!
Construction plans have been modified to restrict workers from activities such as jack hammering, sawing, and other concrete removal processes in the early morning hours. These actions are the main cause of noise pollution that students have been suffering from during this recent construction period. This is great news for those of us with finals at 8am.
The mystery behind the construction site in front of Randall Hall of last semester has also been revealed. This was the site that took up half of Neubig Rd. and was still open during Cortaca Weekend. Click here to see a video of the site. A steam pipe that heated nearly half of the campus had burst and needed to be repaired before the cold of winter set in. This project took over two months and cost about $450,000!!! Luckily, the situation was contained and the project was completed on time.
There have also been many other construction sites that have popped up over the year which are now behind us. Some of them were unplanned, but today, each of the three scheduled sites is still keeping pace to be completed on time.
A special thank you to Jeff Lallas for an incredibly pleasant phone call, and an understanding attitude. As he said "we were all students once"; an outlook that many other faculty and staff members here on campus should hold.
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