Plans call for an electrical shutdown to Schaffer Library, Humanities and Social Sciences on Saturday, March 28, as the F.W. Olin Center joins the College's electrical grid, said William Shafer, capital projects manager.
Meanwhile, work continues on the Olin building's façade and the interior rotunda, he said. Most of the north exterior wall has been finished and washed.
Work on Olin is still about four weeks behind schedule due to weather delays, but the
contractor feels they can make up that time as weather improves, he noted.
On the Schaffer Library project, the city has issued temporary
certificates of occupancy for both the basement and third floors of the new addition,
Shafer said. Special Collections is settling in to its new quarters on the third floor of
the new addition after its move the second week of February. Periodicals and government
documents were moved from the basement of the 1961 building to the basement of the new
building last week. Plans are to move the remainder of the staff and collection to the new
building over spring break.
Students and staff will have full use of the entire new addition during
spring term, Shafer said.