Demolition continues on Carver Academic Facility

The demolition of portions of the Carver Academic Facility continues this week, and various parts of campus will be affected by noise and construction traffic, especially near the building.

For the remainder of the week, heavy equipment will continue to generate diesel fumes, noise and some ground vibration, particularly near Bond Hall. The contractor will continue to spray the demolition process with water to mitigate airborne dust. Users of Bond Hall, Miller Hall, Arts Annex and College Hall are advised to keep windows closest to Carver closed in order to mitigate the demolition impact. Demolition will continue in various areas of the building throughout fall quarter.

The contractor will start and warm up heavy equipment prior to 8 a.m. to minimize diesel exhaust fumes during hours of operation. Note that most of the heavy equipment on site is relatively new and running at peak efficiency with minimal exhaust.

Eighty percent of the top soil has been stripped  from the north side of the building and  transported and stockpiled on the south side for later removal. Stripping and transporting will continue from north to south along the east side of Carver for the remainder of the week.

Traffic on the access road has been limited to no more than eight truckloads per day and a relatively small workforce of fewer than 50 workers. For the next couple of weeks, truck trips will increase, as much of the concrete rubble generated from the demolition has been sorted and stockpiled for efficient removal.

Asbestos abatement this week is concentrated in the northeast section of the building and is relatively benign, because the work is completed in “confined enclosures with critical barriers,” regulated and monitored  by Environmental Protection Agency standards.

Domestic water service to College Hall will be shut down at 6 a.m. Friday, Sept. 25, with the goal being to get it back online by 7. The closure is necessary to separate controls of the College Hall water system from the Carver system.

Those who need to walk or drive on the south access road should be alert, be aware of their surroundings and be safe. The road will start seeing increased construction traffic, most of which will be extremely heavy loads that require greater starting and stopping time than the typical automobile.