Kilachand Hall Phase 2 – Construction Update – 07/01/22

Saturday, July 2nd

• Work hours are 7 am – 3:30 pm.
• BrandSafway will continue with scaffold erection along the west elevation in the alleyway heading north.
• SOS demolition will have crew members on site continuing with the saw cutting of slab penetrations for the new exhaust risers and select partition demo in the vicinity of the new elevator bank.
• Royal Steam will be on site installing new exhaust duct risers.
• Riggs Contracting will be working on bathroom floor infills.
• Consigli Construction will have staff onsite for job site supervision.

During the week of July 4th

• No activity will take place on the July 4th holiday.
• BrandSafway to continue with scaffold erection on the west elevation in the alleyway heading north and on the northwest elevation.
• Riggs Masonry will continue work on the east and south elevations, performing demolition of window headers and building corners in preparation for restoration.
• Riggs Masonry to continue with new lintel installation and waterproofing details at window headers throughout the West and East elevations.
• SOS Corp to continue with slab penetrations for new bathroom exhaust riser stacks, expecting to complete by week’s end.
• SOS Corp continuing with select demo in the vicinity of the new bank of elevators and stairwell, working top floors down.
• SOS Corp & Costello Dismantling will continue abatement and demo on the 9^th floor.
  • Vertex Companies will be onsite performing air monitoring of these activities.
• Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing contractors continue to work on make safe of existing building services in the vicinity of work areas.
  • These contractors will also be working together on any coordination of existing services in conflict with the new bathroom exhaust riser work.
• Cogswell Sprinkler continues with temporary fire protection measures and select rework of existing piping.
• Royal Steam (mechanical contractors) will continue with the preparation and installation of new bathroom exhaust duct risers.
• Mass Acoustics (metal stud and drywall) to continue with fire escape door infills and shaft wall construction as made available.
• Murphy Electric will continue with make safe and circuit tracing. The team looks to get into basement emergency electric room relocations.

General Project Information

• Daily work hours are from 7 am – 3:30 pm.
• The Traffic Management Plan for the project has been approved by the Boston Transportation Department. (Implementation of the plan was underway this week and will be into next)
  • Step 1 – Relocated accessible parking spaces posted for use on June 29th (in front of 81 and 83 Bay State Road), existing spaces to also remain in place until July 5th.
  • Step 2 – Jersey barrier placement securing parking lane only starting on July 5th, sidewalk to remain accessible in front of Kilachand Hall until bike lane is relocated.
  • Step 3 – Bike lane relocated south, in front of Kilachand Hall, tentatively set for July 7th or July 8th.
• BU parking spots directly behind Kilachand Hall on Back Street remain a no-parking zone.  This will continue for the duration of the project to maintain an adequate drive lane for local traffic on Back Street and allow for the construction team to safely contain a work area north of the dormitory.
• Kilachand Hall will be unoccupied until August 19th, 2022 while construction gets underway. There will be no access to anyone other than the project team and BU trade shops. August 19th is the start of RA move-ins for the fall semester, August 29th is the campus-wide move-in date.

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