The main con­struc­tion activ­i­ties for the week of Novem­ber 12– 16 are the following:

-  Stock­ing of dry­wall and instal­la­tion of dry­wall at sof­fits on the 3rd floor both inside and out­side of bar­rier. Increased noise level for screw guns, etc. Work hours will be from 5:00 am to 1:30 pm.
– Com­ple­tion of fram­ing of level 3 sof­fits out­side of the con­struc­tion bar­rier. Increased noise level for cut­ting and fas­ten­ing of mate­ri­als.  Work hours will be from 5:00 am to 1:30 pm.
–  Ongo­ing mechan­i­cal and elec­tri­cal sys­tem rough-in and instal­la­tion on the 1st floor and mez­za­nine. Nor­mal con­struc­tion noise lev­els.
 -   Third floor sof­fit mechan­i­cal and elec­tri­cal rough-in out­side of con­struc­tion bar­rier. Work hours will be from 5:00 to 1:30 pm.
–  Instal­la­tion of glass wall sys­tem header track on 3rd floor sof­fits to allow dry­wall instal­la­tion. Work hours will be from 5:00 to 1:30 pm.

The main con­struc­tion activ­i­ties for the week of Novem­ber 5– 9 are the following:

-  Fram­ing of  sof­fits on the 3rd floor out­side of the con­struc­tion bar­rier. Increased noise level for cut­ting and fas­ten­ing of mate­ri­als.  Work hours will be from 5:00 am to 1:30 pm.
–  Ongo­ing mechan­i­cal and elec­tri­cal sys­tem rough-in and instal­la­tion on the 1st floor and mez­za­nine. Nor­mal con­struc­tion noise lev­els.
 -   Floor 3 sof­fit mechan­i­cal and elec­tri­cal rough-in out­side of con­struc­tion bar­rier. Work hours will be from 5:00 to 1:30 pm.
–  Instal­la­tion of glass wall sys­tem header track on 3rd floor sof­fits to allow dry­wall instal­la­tion. Work hours will be from 5:00 to 1:30 pm.
–  Plumb­ing sys­tem mod­i­fi­ca­tions on the Fri­day night and Sat­ur­day morn­ing when library closed.

The fol­low­ing con­struc­tion activ­i­ties will be start­ing next week of Novem­ber 12 — Novem­ber 16.

 - Ongo­ing mechan­i­cal and elec­tri­cal sys­tem rough-in and instal­la­tion on the 1st floor and mez­za­nine. Nor­mal con­struc­tion noise lev­els.
–  Floor 3 sof­fit mechan­i­cal and elec­tri­cal rough-in out­side of con­struc­tion bar­rier. Work hours will be from 5:00 to 1:30 pm.
– Stock­ing of dry­wall and instal­la­tion of dry­wall at sof­fits on 3rd floor both inside and out­side of bar­rier. Increased noise level for screw guns, etc. Work hours will be from 5:00 am to 1:30 pm.
 - Com­ple­tion of fram­ing of floor 3 sof­fits out­side of the con­struc­tion bar­rier. Increased noise level for cut­ting and fas­ten­ing of mate­ri­als.  Work hours will be from 5:00 am to 1:30 pm.

Seat­tle Daily Jour­nal of Com­merce. A new chap­ter for UW/s Ode­gaard library, August 28, 2012 http://www.djc.com/news/ae/12044391.html?query=odegaard&searchtype=all

The UW Daily. Ode­gaard atten­dance falls dur­ing con­struc­tion, Octo­ber 3, 2012: http://dailyuw.com/news/2012/oct/03/odegaard-attendance-falls-during-construction/

Here are the major con­struc­tion activ­i­ties planned for mid– to late Octo­ber and their impacts on users. Ques­tions, con­cerns? Email ouglreno@uw.edu.

Octo­ber 15 — 19:

Fram­ing of the 3rd floor sof­fits out­side of the con­struc­tion bar­rier. Expect increased noise level for cut­ting and fas­ten­ing of mate­ri­als. Work hours will be from 5:00 am to 1:30 pm.

Octo­ber 22 — 26:

- Fram­ing of 3rd floor sof­fits out­side of the con­struc­tion bar­rier. Increased noise level for cut­ting and fas­ten­ing of mate­ri­als. Work hours will be from 5:00 am to 1:30 pm.
– Ongo­ing mechan­i­cal and elec­tri­cal sys­tem rough-in and instal­la­tion. Nor­mal con­struc­tion noise lev­els.
– Instal­la­tion of atrium steel stair sup­ports on floors 1 and 2. This will increase noise on south side of floor. There will be weld­ing, grind­ing, etc. for this work. May have some slight odor of weld­ing but not harm­ful as area will be prop­erly ven­ti­lated to out­side of build­ing.
– Inte­rior brick patch­ing on the 1st floor and mez­za­nine levels.

Octo­ber 29 — Novem­ber 2:

Ongo­ing fram­ing of 3rd floor sof­fits out­side of the con­struc­tion bar­rier. Increased noise level for cut­ting and fas­ten­ing of mate­ri­als. Work hours will be from 5:00 am to 1:30 pm.
– Ongo­ing mechan­i­cal and elec­tri­cal sys­tem rough-in and instal­la­tion. Nor­mal con­struc­tion noise lev­els.
– Com­ple­tion of atrium steel stair sup­ports on floors 1 and 2. This will increase noise on south side of floor. There will be weld­ing, grind­ing, etc. for this work. May have some slight odor of weld­ing but not harm­ful as area will be prop­erly ven­ti­lated to out­side of building.

-  Brick patch­ing on level 2 col­umn by main help desk on Mon­day and Tues­day morn­ing from 5:00 am to 8:00 am.

 Brick patch­ing on level 2 col­umn by main help desk on Mon­day and Tues­day morn­ing from 5:00 am to 8:00 am

Ode­gaard con­struc­tion dur­ing the week of Octo­ber 8–12 will include:

1. Fram­ing of sof­fits on the 2nd floor inside the con­struc­tion bar­rier. Expect increased noise due to cut­ting and fas­ten­ing of materials.

2. Ongo­ing mechan­i­cal and elec­tri­cal sys­tem rough-in and instal­la­tion. Nor­mal con­struc­tion noise levels.

3. Con­crete work to fin­ish steel stairs on the 1st floor inside the con­struc­tion bar­rier. Nor­mal con­struc­tion noise levels.

4. Lay­out and prepa­ra­tion work on the 3rd floor out­side of the con­struc­tion bar­rier pri­mar­ily dur­ing early morn­ing hours.

Con­struc­tion work hap­pens between 6am and 3pm, Mon­day through Friday.

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Ode­gaard Library will re-open on Mon­day Sep­tem­ber 24 at 8AM with the sec­ond and third floors open for busi­ness. Loca­tions of some ser­vices have changed; please con­sult the map. Ques­tions? Ask at the Entry Lobby desk or the Infor­ma­tion Desk on the sec­ond floor.
Ode­gaard Library Map, Sep­tem­ber 2012

It’s almost Labor Day, with much accom­plished since con­struc­tion began on June 18. Yes­ter­day the team–Mortenson Con­struc­tion and sub-contractors, the Miller Hull archi­tects, UW’s Cap­i­tal Projects Office, the Libraries , UW-IT and stu­dent assistants–celebrated the great progress we’ve made so far over a deli­cious bar­be­cue lunch. A quick recap of the summer’s work:

The cen­tral stair­case has been demol­ished, replaced tem­porar­ily with an impres­sive scaf­fold that fills the entire atrium space. It has an inter­nal stair­way that gives con­struc­tion work­ers access to each floor and on up to the roof. Speak­ing of the roof, a good part of it was removed in prepa­ra­tion for adding a sky­light. Lovely views of the August sky could be seen! New roof­ing  to sur­round the sky­light has been built. The new sky­light itself will be lifted into place next week.

The mez­za­nine was built out to the north and south walls of the build­ing with steel and con­crete. Tem­po­rary walls on the first, sec­ond and third floors are being put into place in prepa­ra­tion for the begin­ning of Autumn Quar­ter on Sep­tem­ber 24. When the library re-opens, there will be a tem­po­rary entry lobby on the first floor. Access to the sec­ond and third floors will either be by ele­va­tor or up a large inter­nal stair­way (pre­vi­ously used as an emer­gency exit stair.) There will be no access to the first floor as much work remains to be done. The sched­ule calls for con­struc­tion to be com­pleted in late spring 2013. New pho­tos of con­struc­tion are avail­able at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ouglrenovation/.

The Wel­come edi­tion of The Daily has a good arti­cle on the Ode­gaard ren­o­va­tion. Pick up a paper as news kiosks through­out campus.

Daily Jour­nal of Com­merce, August 28, 2012

A new chap­ter for UW’s Ode­gaard library

Here’s a brief pre­sen­ta­tion about the Ode­gaard ren­o­va­tion. You’ll see pho­tos from pre-renovation and some of the Miller Hull archi­tects’ ren­der­ings of the planned design. Ode­gaard Library Ren­o­va­tion Pre­sen­ta­tion August 2012