The renovation project has continued to make progress, and the building will be move-in ready by the end of November. There’s only one major item awaiting completion, as Heather Hill, our Property Chair extraordinaire reports: With the addition of the elevator, NES is requiring an upgrade to our current service. With this upgrade, the transformer will be replaced at a new location next to the chiller in the West lawn. A design has been received from NES, and our electrical subcontractor is pricing it now. Once pricing is reviewed and approved, the electrical subcontractor will start the work trenching from the current transformer location in the basement, near the mechanical room, to where the new transformer will be installed. At that point, we will have to wait until NES sets the new pole so that the transformer pad can be poured, pathway completed and wire pulled. The current expectation is that the new NES pole will be set sometime in January/February of next year. The elevator cab install is reliant on the upgraded power and cannot begin until the above work is completed. All other work in the areas surrounding the elevator shaft can be completed prior to this. After the work around the elevator shaft is complete, the shaft openings will be protected for public safety. We expect the entire project, including landscaping, to be completed in the first quarter of 2021.
