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Message #4 ... June 3, 2002

The GX list provides information you need during the "Great Excavations 2" project at the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus.

Today is Monday, June 3. Today's GX includes:

1. See it live
2. Chemistry Project: Phase 1
3. Chemistry Project: Phase 1A and Phase 2
4. Chemistry Project: Who to ask
5. Save Yourself a Trip
6. Subscribing and unsubscribing

1. See it live

A Web cam is now trained on the GX2 job site. Keep tabs on progress all summer by clicking your way to www.jhu.edu/gx/info/gxwebcam.html. Once you're there, you can watch things as they happen, either by "reloading" or "refreshing" the page or by going one click further to the live image feed. You're looking south from the Gilman Hall clock tower to the area between Levering and Latrobe halls.

2. Chemistry Project: Phase 1

Did you miss the open meetings last week on the campus's newest construction project? Here's what you need to know:

Work begins in earnest this week on the project, the centerpiece of which is a two-wing, four-story, 48,000-square-foot chemistry building. It will rise on a footprint that includes what is now Owen House, between Mudd Hall and the Johns Hopkins Club.

The project also includes an underground, 5,200-square-foot nuclear magnetic resonance imaging facility between Mudd and Macaulay halls.

The third major element is a two-level parking structure with 100 spaces atop what is now C lot, or the club parking lot.

The fence for phase 1 of the project goes up on Monday. See www.jhu.edu/gx/info/chem1.html. You'll note that the work between now and June 16 focuses mainly on the Mudd-Macaulay area. The main front door to Mudd is closed and, for now, the only entrance for those without keys is on the southeast, or Biology East, side of the building. Signs pointing to the open entrance and establishing detours around the site will be posted this week.

Another major focus of work early on is construction of an 18-foot-wide temporary loading dock behind Mudd. While this is accomplished, the current Macaulay loading dock will remain active.

The early work also includes an opening of a new entrance onto what is now C lot from the northwest side of the lot, a widening of the road around the Johns Hopkins Club and a relocation of the club's service area. More on this later.

In phase 1, the sidewalk along the road on the west side (the Levi side) of Mudd will remain open to pedestrians.

In phase 1, construction crews will fence off only 12 to 15 parking spaces on C lot. These spaces, north of Owen House, will be used to store equipment and material. The rest of C lot will remain open through June 16.

But on June 17, C lot will be closed. Staff cars that usually park there will be absorbed elsewhere in the paid parking system; the valley lot, for instance, currently has more than 150 open spaces each day. Johns Hopkins Club patrons will be moved to D lot, behind the Greenhouse. Faculty who usually park there have been informed where alternate spaces are being made available.

Construction work is, by definition, noisy and dusty. But the university and contractor Barton Malow Co. are taking steps to minimize the disruption, especially in Mudd Hall. There are additional filters on the building's HVAC equipment and a higher air pressure will be maintained inside the building to keep dirt out. Exterior doors near where excavation will take place have been closed off with plywood, and interior doors have been equipped with additional seals. Baseline air samples have been taken in labs, and air quality will be monitored regularly. Noise dampening material has been installed inside the building near where the temporary loading dock will be built. Outside the building, sidewalks will be cleaned daily and exposed dirt will be watered down as necessary to keep dust down.

Construction work will begin at 6:30 a.m. and end at 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. All construction workers will be issued numbered security badges, to be worn on their hard hats or shirts.

3. Chemistry Project: Phase 1A and Phase 2

We'll have information over the next couple of weeks on what will happen in and around the chemistry building project area after June 17.

4. Chemistry Project: Who to ask

Got a question on the chemistry/NMR/parking deck project? For construction-related issues, ask project manager Frances Hammar in Facilities (6-8065 or fhammar@jhu.edu) or consulting project manager Lucy DiGhionno (6-4460 or ldighio1@jhu.edu). For traffic-related questions or pedestrian issues, check with Lt. George Kibler in Security (6-4600 or kibler@jhu.edu).

5. Save yourself a trip

Here's a summer travel tip: On Tuesdays and Thursdays from now through August, don't bother working your way around the construction to the cash accounting office in 73 Garland Hall. The office will be open only three days a week through the summer.

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