WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2009

1542 TULANE AVE. :

• The general contractor started cleaning the auditorium floor.
• Facility Services continued making electrical repairs and painting on the 2nd and 3rd Floors.
• They patched and painted Room 312B. 

LIONS/LSU CLINIC PERMANENT REPAIRS AND MITIGATION:    

• The contractor installed flashing on the stairwell roof.
• A French drain was installed around the new stairwell slab.
• Workers continued to install restroom partitions on the Bolivar St. side of the 1st Floor.
• A crew applied epoxy in the old PBX room on the 1st Floor.
• They continue installing wall tile on the Bolivar St. side of the 1st Floor.
• Crews continued to install metal for the mullions in the stairwell.
• Workers painted the stairwell handrail on the 1st through 3rd Floors.
• The electrical contractor installed a 600 amp breaker for EMDP panel and the 1600 amp breaker for the fire pump motor on the roof.
• They installed smoke detectors and strobes on the Bolivar St. side of the 1st Floor.

LIBRARY COMMONS:

• The contractor continued to patch and repair the elevator lobby ceiling.
• Additional lights were relocated in the wooden ceiling.
• Workers are installing the ceiling frame in the back office area.

MEB AIR HANDLING UNIT REPLACEMENT:

• The contractor removed the old rooftop unit number one, installed the new unit and patched the roof.
• They began piping the new unit and making connections to the existing ductwork.

RESIDENCE HALL LOBBY EXPANSION:

• The interior contractor continued installing gypsum board to fur out the concrete wall in the back corner lobby area on S. Roman St. and Poydras Ave.
• The interior contractor ran wires for the fire alarm devices throughout the lobby area.
• The mechanical contractor raised one sprinkler line underneath the mezzanine level between the B & C Towers .
• They adjusted sprinkler heads to the center tile of the drop ceiling.

MEB 2nd FLOOR LOBBY RENOVATIONS:

• The wall panel contractor installed metal trim pieces for the wood wall panels adjacent to the elevators.

MEB PHARMACOLOGY LAB RENOVATIONS:

• The contractor completed installing ceiling tiles in the in the lab areas.
• The contractor installed return air grilles in the new doors. 
• The network wiring contractor continued pulling network wires. 

ALLIED HEALTH/NURSING BLDG. RE-ROOFING PROJECT:

• The contractor installed a cap sheet on the roof of the walkway between the Allied Health/Nursing Bldg. and the MEB.
• They installed the cap sheet on the 4th Floor lower level roofs.     

DENTAL SCHOOL AUDITORIUMS A & B RENOVATIONS:

• The contractor installed an additional row of ceiling tiles in Auditorium A.
• The contractor installed carpet on the top two tiers of Auditorium A.