Administrative update on construction

University Facilities has announced construction projects for the North and South campuses that will be completed during the late spring and summer months.

Several projects on the North Campus will cause some disruption for members of the university community, as some roads and parking lots will be closed to traffic.

In addition, new signage will be installed on both campuses beginning in late June and continuing through October. Prototypes will be installed along Flint and Webster roads on the North Campus and at Main and Bailey on the South Campus.

North Campus

- Repaving of the Jacobs A, B and C parking lots, May 22-31. These lots, as well as the Baird A and Slee A lots, will receive 12 new center-line parking markers. These markers, which are being installed as an experiment, are designed to prevent three-in-a-row parking problems when pavement markings are obscured by ice and snow.

- Repaving of Putnam Way from Hadley Road to Augspurger Road, June 1-30.

- Repaving of Webster Road from the entrance to campus at Millersport Highway to the Center for the Arts access road, June 1-July 15.

- Paving of the Stadium parking lot; installation of blue-light phones, before July 22 and after July 28.

- Construction of a 200-space parking lot directly north of Alumni Arena for use by students and for special events, June-September.

- Construction of a sidewalk from South Lake Village to The Commons, June-September.

- Renovation of the Moot Court in O'Brian Hall, late June-January. The work will involve adding a floor in the two-story area, creating a new courtroom with first-floor access, as well as four new classrooms, judges' chambers and a jury-deliberation room.

- Replacement of roofs on Furnas, Baldy, Slee and Bissell halls.

- Masonry restoration at the Ellicott Complex.

- North and east extensions to the Amherst Bike Path. The north extension will run parallel to Millersport Highway from Ellicott Creek to the Pepsi Center. The east extension will run on the east side of Millersport to the new Town of Amherst tennis courts at North Forest Road, north of Maple Road. All construction projects are weather-dependent, so dates may vary. In mid-June, the Department of Mathematics will begin its move from Diefendorf Hall on the South Campus to its new home in the newly constructed building at the west end of the academic Spine on the North Campus. In addition, 25 elevators in North Campus buildings will undergo Americans With Disabilities Act and fire-service updates. The updates generally will take two to three weeks to complete per elevator. Only one elevator per building will be shut down at a time for these repairs. The updates will include new car stations installed at a level accessible from wheelchairs, floor buttons in Braille, audible gongs indicating particular floor location inside the car and at hallway call stations, floor location lanterns inside of cars, emergency phone updates to include battery backup, emergency lighting in cars, elevator controller replacement on hydraulic units and phase 1 and phase 2 fire-service compliance.

South Campus

- Roof replacement, asbestos removal in Wende and Beck halls, mid-May. Recoating of the roof of Clark Gym. The exterior of Wende will be repainted and masonry work will done, scheduled to begin in late July and be completed by mid-September. The exterior of Crosby Hall also will be repainted and masonry work done from early June through late August.

- Repairs to stone steps outside of Cary, Farber, Sherman, Michael, Crosby, Hayes and Parker halls. Work at Cary, Farber and Sherman is scheduled for June through September; work at remaining buildings scheduled to begin this month and continue through September.

- Elevator rehab in Parker Hall.

- Rehab of Harriman Hall, including replacement and asbestos abatement of all windows, rehab of the basement and first-floor spaces for student affairs, extended food service and construction of an elevator in the center for the building. Construction is expected to begin in June and run through July 2001.

- Abatement of asbestos in plaster ceilings and floor tiles in all corridors in every floor of Cary, Farber and Sherman halls. Buildings will receive new floor tiles, new ceilings and new lighting.

- Demolition, Main Street (mathematics) Library, July. Area will be returned to green space.