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
• Overhead mast arm lights will be installed after delivery.
Enterprise Research Campus (ERC)
• Work is scheduled for Saturday, July 6, starting at 7 a.m.
- The Treehouse Conference Center will be backfilling around the foundation.
- The hotel will use a tower crane to install steel.
- Exterior wall sheathing will be installed at the residential buildings.
• Structural steel continues to be delivered and installed using the tower cranes at the lab buildings. The west building will be topped off this week at the second mechanical penthouse beyond level 7.
• Hoists (exterior temporary elevators) and loading docks are being installed at the residential buildings.
•Concrete and rebar operations are ongoing.
•The next mass timber delivery is scheduled to arrive on Friday, July 12, and then the next sequence will be installed at the Treehouse conference center.
• The Treehouse is removing scaffolding from the core and making core connections.
• 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 14 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 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.
- A flight is scheduled for Thursday, July 11 at 7 a.m.
92 Seattle Street
• Crews have prepared the 38 Travis Street building wall adjacent to Rena Path for mural painting.
• Small concrete placements and exterior activities are underway for the addition including walls on the east side of the site.
• Curtainwall work is underway on the east addition.
• Interior work continues to progress.
•Tenant fit out is underway.
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.
•Daily concrete form/rebar work and placement continue on the residential north elevator core tower, foundation walls and other areas in preparation for steel to begin the week of July 15.
• 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.
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 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.
• Overhead protection is being installed.
• 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.
