Steelwork Begins on New Campus Center
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Steelwork Begins on New Campus Center
Progress continues on schedule for the university’s new, 331,000 square foot Campus Center. As the pile cap stage nears completion, first signs of the Center’s skeleton have emerged at the corner of the site near Wheatley Hall and Science Center. Deliveries of steel beams have been arriving daily in the early morning hours by 18-wheeler trucks, which travel to and from a steel fabrication plant in Nova Scotia. Suffolk Construction has started to erect the steelwork of the building using an 180 foot crane, to move over seven to eight thousand pieces of steel, weighing a total of 3,000 tons.
The construction schedule shows the steel structure for all six floors to be fully in place by the spring. One of the latest additions to the site will offer constant updates to construction. A web cam has been placed near the site that will take a stationary photo of the site every few seconds and a web address will be announced as soon as it is operational. Planners anticipate construction watchers can view updates of the Campus Center’s progress as early as January.