The Western Avenue utility crossing roadway work is finalized and is finishing up on Kresge Way and is being coordinated with University operations.
As part of Harvard’s infrastructure improvements in Allston, the University has extended thermal piping and electrical/telecommunications duct banks from the District Energy Facility across Western Avenue to Kresge Way, the main driveway into the HBS campus. The original entrance and drive alignment is back in place off Western Avenue.
Kresge Way and Extension of Thermal Pipes and Electrical Duct Bank
- Punch list work is underway.
- Sweeping and final striping is expected to take place.
During project hours, Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. (at times may extend to 6 p.m.), the work will generate noise due to the presence of work crews and the use of construction equipment.
Enterprise Research Campus (ERC)
- Work is scheduled for this Saturday, May 11 starting at 7 a.m.
- Utility tie-ins will occur inside the site.
- The Treehouse Conference Center will have crews prepping for concrete placements and core work.
- The Residential/Hotel site will have crews preparing for concrete placements and steel installation.
- The Laboratory site will have crews erecting steel.
- Punchlist work and adjustments are ongoing on the Residential/Hotel, Conference Center, and Laboratory mockups with an occasional lane shift on Rotterdam Street for use of a lift and possible deliveries.
- Structural steel continues to be delivered and installed using the tower cranes.
- Concrete and rebar operations are ongoing.
- The Treehouse conference center cores are underway.
- Intermittent use of power trowels for concrete finishing may take place after 6 a.m.
- Visible work is taking place on level eight and nine of the high rise and midrise residential buildings. The hotel has steel installed to Level 10.
- Four tower cranes are operating on site and are designed to move or “weathervane” in the wind when not operational.
- Eversource is making final connections and inspections to connect temporary power to the Treehouse, which may involve the use of equipment intermittently out on Western Avenue.
- Drones will be in use weekly to monitor construction progress on site.
- Drones will be operated by licensed pilots in accordance with Harvard University and the City of Boston regulations.
- Flights are weather dependent and are scheduled Wednesdays or Thursdays alternating weekly.
- A drone flight is planned for Thursday, May 16 at 7 a.m.
92 Seattle Street
- Roof, electrical and masonry work will take place this Saturday, May 11.
- Use of a crane may be necessary to hoist equipment onto the roof.
- Excavation for the addition on the façade and ramp area will take place on the east side of the site.
- Roof replacement work remains ongoing.
- Interior work continues to progress.
- Small concrete placements will take place.
175 North Harvard Street,100 South Campus Drive, 201 Western Avenue Lot Expansion
Construction has begun on the new American Repertory Theater (ART), which will be located at the front of the 175 North Harvard parcel with the new Harvard University affiliate housing building already under construction behind it.
- The contractor will be working on Saturday, May 11, to install rebar in preparation for the large mat slab placement targeted for May 18.
- Utility work on Ivy Lane continues. One lane of traffic will be maintained during work hours, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. The road will be plated after hours with two lanes of traffic reopened.
- Crews are installing rebar and plumbing drain lines in preparation for the second large mat slab placement targeted for 3 a.m. next Saturday, May 18. South Campus Drive will be closed to traffic that morning (3 a.m.to 7 a.m.) to accommodate a concrete pump and trucks.
- Concrete form work and placement continues on the first residential elevator core tower and on foundation walls.
- Utility work will take place inside the site.
- A tower crane is operating on site. At the end of each shift, the crane will be left in weathervane mode with safety lighting turned inward.
- South Campus Drive has been redirected to one way traffic from Western Avenue to North Harvard Street.
- Vehicles will not be allowed to enter from the North Harvard Street entrance to South Campus Drive.
- ART project soil excavation continues.
- Crews at the ART project are placing formwork for foundation walls and footings for elevator cores.
- Mock-up masonry work is underway across the street from the site.
- Concrete operations are underway within the site foundation.
- Because concrete pours cannot be stopped mid-pour, some of these operations may occasionally go slightly later than 6 p.m. The contractor will make every effort to minimize this.
- Wheel washing and street sweeping continues.
- Deliveries are ongoing.
- Site work hours are 7 a.m.-4 p.m.
- The MBTA bus stop in front of the building has been relocated closer to South Campus Drive.
- Lot expansion is underway at the 201 Western Avenue lot, where construction workers park and field offices are set up and in use. Excavating, grading and preparation for paving continues inside the fence bordering Academic Way and behind the ArtLab.
- During the expansion activity and for concrete placements intermittent use of the back gate will take place for truck staging and/or exiting.
210 North Harvard Street
- Crews will finish replacing the sidewalk adjacent to the building at Bertram and North Harvard Streets.
- The fit-out team is installing an outdoor freezer in the loading dock area off Bertram Street.
- Permanent power feeds will be connected later this spring.
108 Holton Street
Crews will be preparing to demolition this building during this three-month project.
- Demolition preparation is underway.
- Paving will take place on Monday, May 13 adjacent to the site.
55 Antwerp Street
- Utility work in the lot and sidewalk continues near the Artists Asylum through the month.
- A coned off work zone in the street and sidewalk will accommodate this work.
- Two-way traffic will be maintained. Pedestrians will shift to the opposite sidewalk.
HUIT Manhole Surveys
On Monday, May 13, Phoenix Communications will be surveying existing manhole structures between Stadium Way and One Western Avenue including the roadways inside of ERC. This activity may require additional work days next week.
