Summer 2018 Construction Update
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Slide 1: The new wheelchair lift in the International Affairs Building connects the lower and upper levels of the fourth floor.
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Slide 2: Improvements to transform the public space in Pupin include dropped ceilings to hide exposed piping, new lighting fixtures, and flooring.
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Slide 3: The new Lerner Hall student lounge includes a game room featuring air hockey and foosball tables plus other games like giant Jenga, giant Connect 4, chess, and Legos. (Photo: Andrew Rugge)
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Slide 4: The perimeter shrubs leading up to St. Paul's Chapel were removed to create a more open and welcoming lawn space and building entrance.
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Slide 5: The new pathway in front of Mathematics includes an accessible ramp to Havemeyer Hall and WIFI equipped lampposts and seating areas along the pathway.
Summer is always a busy period for Facilities and Operations. While construction occurs throughout the year, Facilities and Operations utilizes the summer months to complete a significant number of projects, many of which can only take place with the summer’s decreased campus population.
Students and faculty returning to campus for the fall semester will notice many improvements across the Morningside campus. The following provides a snapshot of key projects, aimed to improve campus infrastructure and well-being:
- Improved disability access on campus, including a new wheelchair lift between the lower and upper levels of the fourth floor of the International Affairs Building, a permanent accessibility ramp adjacent to Hamilton Hall connecting College Walk and Lower Campus, and a reconstructed pathway in front of Mathematics with a sloped pathway to Havemeyer Hall.
- Refreshed public areas in Dodge Hall, Mathematics, and Pupin Hall, part of a multi-year initiative across campus that adds new painting, flooring, and lighting to make buildings will feel brighter, cleaner, and less encumbered.
- Upgraded residence halls, including floor-to-ceiling renovations on the seventh through tenth floors of Carman Hall and the sixth through ninth floors of Wien Hall.
- Student space enhancements, in partnership with student leaders, spaces in Lerner Hall were reimagined to enhance community, adding a new computer lab, reservable meeting spaces, and a multipurpose student lounge.
- Renovated restrooms, part of an ongoing restroom enhancement initiative, in Lewisohn, Low Library, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Pupin, which include sustainable elements such as the replacement of paper towel dispensers with hand driers.
- Projects to increase lawn access, including the removal of shrubs in front of the St. Paul’s Chapel and Earl Hall lawns to make them more inviting and a new drainage system for the South Field West Lawn that will speed up recovery time after a rainfall.
- Upgrades to classrooms and administrative space, including a modernization of the Pulitzer Prize office, renovation of classrooms in Uris Hall, and new space for the Burke Center in the former Wallach Gallery.
- New laboratories and research areas, including spaces in the Northwest Corner Building, Fairchild, Havemeyer, Mudd, and Schermerhorn Extension.
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Slide 1: Deteriorated windows on the third through fifth floors of Pulitzer Hall were replaced with mahogany wood windows matching the building’s historical intent.
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Slide 2: New energy efficient LED light fixtures were installed in Levien Gym which can be adjusted instantly and can be programmed to create various lighting scenes on the courts.
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Slide 3: A renovation to the Miller Theatre dressing rooms included dropped ceilings with new tiles and LED light fixtures, an upgraded restroom, and new flooring.
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Slide 4: Work continued at St. Paul’s Chapel, including the restoration and reinstallation of the leaded-glass windows in the cupola and the exterior restoration of the upper dome.
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Slide 5: The historic ceiling above John Jay Dining Hall was replaced and restored after it was damaged by a leak.