Construction update

Construction Update is published periodically and provides information about the progress of major building and renovation projects. Information is provided to the Record by facilities management.

Danforth Campus

Brauer Hall

Piers are complete. Site utilities are nearly complete. The first-floor deck has been poured. Piping has started.

Busch Hall renovation

Painting and acoustical ceiling grid and lighting installation have begun on the second floor and mezzanine level. Elevator rough-in will start in mid-February. Terrazzo flooring will begin installation by the end of February.

South 40 Umrath House replacement

The lower level and first and third floors are under way. The LEED team’s development of material to achieve LEED innovation points continues.

South 40 utilities

Concrete work continues. Duct banks for electric and communications routed to the chiller plant have been constructed, poured and backfilled.

Wohl Center replacement

The lower level and first and second floors are under way. The LEED team’s development of material to achieve LEED innovation points continues.

Medical Campus

BJC Institute of Health at Washington University

The steel frame of the BJC Institute of Health at Washington University will be completed this month, pending weather. Enclosing of the building in brick, limestone and glass is under way. The exterior skin should be completed by April. Crews are putting the finishing touches on the service road, which will lead from Taylor Avenue to the building’s underground loading docks. For the remainder of 2009, work will shift to finishing the interior as well as to building the plaza and streetscape. The building will open in December 2009.