Summer Construction Update: What’s ahead?
After commencement and before summer sessions, beginning Monday, May 11, expect loud work on the exterior of Cabell Library. The construction team will be jack-hammering the exterior plinth–the platform that surrounds the base of the building–to prepare it for being resurfaced with granite pavers that will match the exterior of the new building.
In other key actions:
- The temporary Special Collections and Archives Reading Room, located in the Mapp Room on the fourth floor, will close May 13-15 due to construction-related activities.
- The tower crane will be removed soon, likely May 16.
- New restrooms on the first, second and third floors are expected to be available for public use before the end of May.
- The fourth floor restrooms will be complete in late June.
- Inspections of new spaces include testing of the audible fire alarm and strobe lights. So, be prepared.
- This summer we will see the completion of the new Special Collections and Archives space on the fourth floor. It is uncertain, pending arrival of new furnishings, when the space will be fully open to patrons.
- The first and second floors, including the new entrance with revolving doors, will be ready by Sept. 30.
- The lower level, future home of Innovative Media, will be completed in October.
- The scheduled completion of third and fourth floors is Dec. 14, 2015.