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From: Ronnie
Smith, Vice Chancellor, Administration and Finance
Subject: Hurricane Katrina Recovery – Update #40
Posted: April 13, 2007
The past two weeks have been busy.
Progress continues to be made in completing the
temporary repairs to both the Dental School (Clinic
Building, Administration Building, and Power Plant) and to the
Clinical Education Building
(1542 Tulane Ave.) that are
necessary to reoccupy the buildings. Several important contracts for the Dental School
are about to go out on bid. The last few change orders needed at 1542
Tulane are being assessed by FEMA for eligibility at
this time and we hope to see those approved in the
near future.
The architects for the downtown
campus have recently developed and presented a
conceptual design for making permanent repairs to
both the CSRB and the MEB along with a 406 Hazard
Mitigation proposal. The plan proposes an addition to the CSRB
that would house Animal Care functions from both the
1st floors of both the MEB and the CSRB
on upper floors of the addition to prevent damage in
a flood.
Critical mechanical, electrical and plumbing
equipment serving the CSRB would be elevated with
the new structure. Critical mechanical, electrical and plumbing
equipment serving the MEB would be elevated within
the MEB.
The CSRB addition would also consolidate and house
the non-life/safety emergency generators that serve
the MEB, CSRB, and Lion’s/LSU Clinic; creating an
emergency operations center. Additional capacity for diesel fuel is also
being planned. The concept will be refined and packaged for
submission to the FEMA 406 Hazard Mitigation team in
the near future.
The architects for the Dental School campus are working on their
plans for permanent repairs and a 406 Hazard
Mitigation proposal that will address the Clinic Building,
the Administration Building
and the Power Plant. The concept calls for the construction of an
elevated addition to the Power Plant that would
connect to the Clinic Building. The addition would house the critical
mechanical, electrical and plumbing equipment
serving the buildings. The critical clinical functions previously
located on the 1st floor of the Clinic Building
would also be moved into the addition, as would key
Animal Care functions. The engineering team is in the process of
working out the complexities and insuring that the
new structure contemplated will be able to
accommodate all of the critical MEP. We are hopeful that the design concept can be
completed within the next week. It will also be packaged and forwarded to the
FEMA 406 Hazard Mitigation team.
The architects are working with
FEMA to get the scope of the storm related damage to
the roof of the MEB aligned, so that the permanent
repairs to the roof can be bid. Documentation has been provided to FEMA,
while the architects are working on the actual
bid/construction documents. Plans are to initiate a similar process on
the permanent repairs to the roof of the
Nursing/Allied Health Building within the next few
weeks.
Here are highlights of work
that has been accomplished since our last update was
posted two weeks ago.
Project to Make Temporary
Repairs to the Dental School:
- The contractor who was
responsible for the removal of the old ceiling
tile grid in both the Clinic and Administration
buildings has completed the removal of the grid
from all rooms and floors in both buildings.
- The architects have
completed the preparation of bid documents for
the replacement of the ceiling tiles and grids
on the upper floors of the Clinic and
Administration buildings.
- The Office of Facility
Planning and Control has completed their
review of the documents and provided the
architects with their comments. They have also agreed to use an
expedited bid process.
- We anticipate that the
bid will be advertised and bids issued
sometime next week.
- LSUHSC opened the bids for
the mold remediation and duct cleaning. During the evaluation of the bids, some
ambiguities regarding mandatory licenses were
identified that have been deemed to warrant
re-bidding the work with revised specifications.
- The specifications
have been revised and the advertisements
will run over the weekend.
- The bid period has
been set for 10 days to minimize the delays
in getting the work under contract and
started.
- The architects have
completed the preparation of bid documents for
the establishment of the Central Sterilization
function on the 3rd floor of the Clinic Building.
- The Office of Facility
Planning and Control has completed their
review of the documents and provided the
architects with their comments.
- We anticipate that the
bid will be advertised and bids issued
sometime next week.
- This project will also
be submitted to FEMA for consideration as a
406 Hazard Mitigation Project.
- The elevator contractor
has continued working on completing repairs to
the elevators in both the Clinic and
Administration buildings.
- Additional repairs and
adjustments were made to Elevator #3 in the Clinic Building
on some of the upper floor levels.
- The contractor
received a large shipment of motors and
equipment for the elevators in the
Administration Building.
- The contractor is
working in the penthouse of the Administration
Building installing the new motors.
- They started
running a 2" conduit to each motor for
the passenger elevators in the Administration Building.
- The contractor also
began installing new floor tile in Elevator
#3 in the Clinic building.
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The carpet has been removed from Room 5312 in
the Clinic Building. This is part of preparing the room to
serve as the new point of connection for
BellSouth’s fiber optic trunks and network
connections that will service the Clinic and
Administration buildings and the Power Plant.
-
The replacement telephone switch will also
be located in this room.
- LSUHSC Computer Services
has begun a project to upgrade the network
infrastructure in both the Clinic and
Administration buildings. This is not storm-related, but completing
the work before the School returns to the
facilities will eliminate the disruption that
would normally have occurred.
- Computer Services did
some spot checks on the power supply for the
upgrades.
- They are looking to
identify a room to store 2700 ft of cable
trays that are required for the
upgrade/wiring project.
- ADC Telecommunications placed some new
network equipment on the 5th
floor of the Clinic Building in Room
5312 and have begun the installation of the
equipment. The installation of this equipment
should be completed within a few more days.
- Problems have developed
with the #2 Chiller. When the chiller is turned on, it trips a
breaker at the switch gear.
- A representative from
York
was called to examine Chiller #2. It appeared that the chiller had a
bad motor which will have to be replaced.
- The contractor has
removed the bad motor and prepared it for
transport. A new motor will be shipped to the Dental School and installed.
- Siemens began setting up
the computer that operates the building control
and monitoring system
- They had to reload the
program into one of the Energy Management
System panels.
- MCC began installing the
Chemical Treatment System on the first floor of
the Power Plant.
- They have installed
1/2" copper lines on the system at the chill
water supply lines.
- LSUHSC Animal Care staff
with the help from Facility Services personnel
started removing the old equipment and cages
that were stored next to the fence in the
parking lot.
- Cingular removed some
towers from the outside wall of the penthouse.
They had a contractor patch the holes that
remained after the towers were removed.
- Zimmer started the removal
of the carpet on 2nd floor of the
Administration Bldg.
- Mathis Verges Architects
surveyed the grounds again to assist in aligning
the damage estimates with FEMA.
- The project to make
repairs to or replace selected doors that are
required by the State Fire Marshal before the
buildings can be reoccupied has recently begun.
Project to Make Temporary Repairs to 1542 Tulane Ave.:
- Ordes Electrical is
continuing to install new 4" conduit to the
vault to service the additional switch gear
needed to power up the remaining portions of the
building.
- They are also
installing another electrical panel in the
basement.
- Arc Mechanical started
making repairs to the steam station in the
basement.
- Some of the
replacement valves are not the same size as
the old ones and some additional piping work
is required.
- They have been welding 2 inch pipe to
valves, traps and strainers for the main
steam station. They have also been welding in new
gate valves and check valves.
- They are installing a steam trap in the pipe chase.
- The work on the
condensate station should be finished by the
close of business today if all goes well.
- They anticipate completing their work on the
main steam station, the 3 inch valves, traps
and strainers in the pipe chase in
approximately 4 weeks.
- Stratos Elevators has been
making repairs to the interior of the cab of
Elevator #3.
- They have removed and
disposed of all of their old parts that were
in the hall.
- Stratos has ISE
Electrical installing smoke alarms in the
elevator shafts for Elevators #1, #2, and
#3.
- They currently estimate completion of the
repairs to Elevator #3 within the next 4
weeks.
- Ordes Electrical has been
removing the old starters for Sump Pumps #1 and
#2.
- They have completed
the removal and are installing the new
controllers.
- If the new controls
work properly, it is possible that a test
will soon be run on the pumps.
- Mechanical Insulators has been on site
insulating the domestic cold water pipes in the
basement.
Elevator Interiors:
- LSUHSC is undertaking some
repairs and enhancements to the interiors of
selected building elevators. This work is not generally storm related.
- Schindler will begin
working on the interior repairs of the “C” tower
elevator in the Residence Hall. This work will take approximately 8
weeks.
- They are also doing
interior repairs to Elevator #3 in the
Nursing/Allied Health Building while this
particular elevator is down for mechanical
repairs.
Irrigation Project:
- LSUHSC has undertaken a
project to enhance the irrigation systems that
serve portions of the downtown campus.
- New, separate water meters
have been installed.
- LSUHSC Facility Services
personnel have been able to install a number of
the sleeves that run under the sidewalks.
- A quote on installing
the driveway sleeves will be in shortly.
We encourage you to follow the
details of our progress through the daily updates
which are posted on the web site.
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