All sites will not be working on Independence Day on Thursday, July 4, 2024.
Kresge Way and Extension of Thermal Pipes and Electrical Duct Bank
- Final striping will take place this summer and overhead mast arm lights will be installed after delivery.
Enterprise Research Campus (ERC)
- Work is scheduled for Saturday, June 29 starting at 7 a.m.
- The Treehouse Conference Center will be removing core scaffolding and formwork.
- The residential/hotel will use a tower crane to install steel, stone grading will take place in the basement, and some workers will be framing on floors.
- Steel detailing will be taking place at the laboratory project.
- Structural steel continues to be delivered and installed using the tower cranes at the lab buildings.
- Hoists (exterior temporary elevators) and loading docks are being installed at the residential buildings.
- Concrete and rebar operations are ongoing.
- Mass timber is being installed at the Treehouse conference center.
- The Treehouse concrete core work is finishing up.
- Intermittent use of power trowels for concrete finishing and layout for concrete placement may take place after 6 a.m.
- The mid-rise building has topped off.
- Concrete continues up to level 13 on the high-rise residential buildings.
- The hotel steel is at level 17 with work continuing on the periscope, the cantilevered section of the building.
- Utility tie-in work will continue to progress inside the fence near Western Avenue and in the perimeter of the lab buildings.
- Four tower cranes are operating on site and are designed to move or “weathervane” in the wind when not operational.
- 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.
- 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 weekdays alternating weekly.
- There will be no drone flights this week.
92 Seattle Street
- Electrical work and sprinkler tie-in work (from 38 Travis Street) inside the building is scheduled to occur Saturday, June 29.
- Preparation work including fence relocation is underway for a mural to be painted along the Rena Path side of the building.
- Small concrete placements and exterior activities are underway for the addition on the façade and ramp area taking place on the east side of the site.
- Curtainwall work to begin on east addition.
- Sidewalk work inside the site fence along the bus lot will be underway.
- Interior work continues to progress.
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.
- Preparation for concrete placing will be underway. Steel will be underway on Saturday, June 29 starting at 7 a.m.
- Daily concrete form/rebar work and placement continue on the residential north elevator core tower, foundation walls and other areas.
- 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.
On the new American Repertory Theater (ART) work site, excavation will take place, leading into rebar and concrete placements.
- The project continues to work on backfill operations, and duct bank work.
- Soil is stockpiled on site and is being covered to minimize dust.
General 175 North Harvard Street
- South Campus Drive has been redirected to one way traffic from Western Avenue to North Harvard Street, occasional closures may be necessary.
- Vehicles will not be allowed to enter from the North Harvard Street entrance to South Campus Drive.
- 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.
201 Western Avenue lot
- Lot expansion is complete at the 201 Western Avenue lot.
- Temp lighting installation will take place, followed by electrical enclosure installations.
- The soil removal operation in the lot is complete.
210 North Harvard Street
- Permanent power feeds will be connected within the next few weeks.
108 Holton Street
- The building has been demolished; crews are restoring the site.
55 Antwerp Street
- The bulk of utility work is complete with drainage activity and a bike rack installation planned inside the lot area the week of July 8.
Soldiers Field Garage Masonry Repairs and Office HVAC Replacement
- Masonry repairs will take place on the exterior northern brick off the alley adjacent to the Soldiers Field Park Building 2. Crews have been power washing and setting up cables for swing staging from the roof deck. A lift is being used to conduct this work from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. each weekday with set up beginning at 7 a.m.
- A five-to-eight week HVAC replacement project is underway in the parking garage office.
