Kilachand Hall Phase 2 – Construction Update – 06/03/22
During the week of June 6th
The traffic management plan for the project is still being finalized with the City of Boston.
In the interim, for the month of June:
Four meters will be rented in front of Kilachand Hall during work hours for pre-scheduled deliveries.
The accessible parking spaces in front of Kilachand Hall will remain available.
BU parking spots directly behind Kilachand Hall on Back Street remains ano parking zone. This will continue for the duration of the project to maintain an adequate drive lane for local traffic on Back Street and allows for the construction team to safely contain a work area north of the dormitory.
Scaffold erection will continue with the south-facing elevations both east and west of front entrance.
Riggs masonry will continue work on the west and southwest elevations, performing demolition of window headers and building corners. They will also begin with the same scope of work on the east and southeast elevations.
SOS Corporation Construction Services (SOS Corp) will continue with interior demo for new bathroom exhaust risers at stack location B.
Interior carpentry crew to build construction barriers to contain the work zone for elevator and stairwell construction (top floor to bottom).
SOS Corp will continue with select demo in the vicinity of the new bank of elevators and stairwell, working top floors down.
Mechanical, electrical and plumbing contractors continue to work on make safe of existing building services in vicinity of work areas.
SOS Corp and Costello Dismantling will be prepping the 9th floor for demo and abatement.
Reserved meters outside of Kilachand Hall.
General Project Information
Daily work hours are from 7 am – 3:30 pm.
Kilachand Hall will be unoccupied during the summer of ’22 while construction gets under way so there will be no access to anyone other than the project team and BU trade shops.
There is potential for weekend work on Saturday, June 11th, during the normal working hours from 7 am – 3:30 pm. This will be confirmed and noted on next week’s update.
Removal of masonry corners to inspect structural building steel.
