{"id":125688,"date":"2019-07-03T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=125688"},"modified":"2019-07-09T12:05:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:05:33","slug":"campus-construction-update-july-8-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/03\/campus-construction-update-july-8-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Construction Update: July 8, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer&#8217;s here and the time is right &#8230; for construction projects at Bates. Here&#8217;s how the major initiatives looked in early July:<\/p>\n<h5>A refusal they can&#8217;t offer<\/h5>\n<p>Most of the time, the last thing the boss wants on the work site is a lot of refusals. (Trust us \u2014 we know!)<\/p>\n<p>In the case of the Bonney Science Center construction, though, more refusals would be welcome, at least when it comes to the pile-driving that\u2019s now underway. For the pile-driving professional, \u201crefusal\u201d is a good thing. It means that the pile you\u2019re driving has penetrated as deep as it can \u2014 it refuses to go deeper \u2014 and it will bear the load it was intended for.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009779;\"><em>The pile driver in use at the Bonney Science Center site is, in effect, a one-cylinder diesel engine. A falling piston within a cylinder compresses an air\u2013diesel fuel mixture. Compression makes the mixture explode, forcing the pile down and the piston back up for the next cycle. (Jay Burns\/Bates College).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"190621_Bates_College_Bonney_Science_piledriver_hjb\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ji1Zalf_mlc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At the Bonney site, refusals aren\u2019t coming fast enough. The pipe piles that will eventually support the building\u2019s foundation are going deeper than expected before they meet refusal, and in virtually every case, that has necessitated splicing a second section of pipe onto the first one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not unanticipated that some of this might be needed, but it looks like it\u2019s going to be just about every single pile,\u201d says Chris Streifel, the project manager representing Bates in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/17\/striking-new-building-to-embody-vision-for-science-education-at-bates-college\/\">Bonney project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In this project, a pile is deemed to have met refusal when it has moved less than an inch after 14 blows from the pile driver. Incidentally, \u201crefusal\u201d is not synonymous with contacting bedrock. For a given pile, a variety of conditions can create resistance sufficient for meeting the load criteria.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_125694\" style=\"width: 1929px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125694\" class=\"size-full wp-image-125694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190624_Campus_Avenue_Construction_0070-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Welding a splice joining two sections of pipe pile. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190624_Campus_Avenue_Construction_0070-copy.jpg 1919w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190624_Campus_Avenue_Construction_0070-copy-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190624_Campus_Avenue_Construction_0070-copy-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190624_Campus_Avenue_Construction_0070-copy-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-125694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welding a splice joining two sections of pipe pile. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cSomebody told me that they hit something solid like a boulder the other day, so they got refusal without having to splice. That was nice,\u201d Streifel laughs. \u201cOne out of a couple hundred, ultimately, that are going into the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next step after refusal is to cut the protruding pipe down to approximately the level of the soil (marine clay!) in the foundation hole. Then the pile is filled with concrete and a threaded rod is inset into the fresh concrete at the top. After it hardens, a steel plate 18 inches square and an inch thick is set onto the pipe and bolted down onto the threaded rod.<\/p>\n<p>The plate is then bedecked with the fascinatingly nicknamed \u201cstone pillow\u201d \u2014 which sounds like a 1960s country-rock group, but is actually an 18-inch layer of compressed crushed rock wrapped in geotextile fabric. This further distributes the load.<\/p>\n<p>And then it\u2019ll be time to start placing concrete footers for the building foundation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_125706\" style=\"width: 1929px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190703_CCU_Bonney_0407_dlh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125706\" class=\"wp-image-125706 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190703_CCU_Bonney_0407_dlh.jpg\" alt=\"Pipe up: Spliced pipe piles in the Bonney Science Center foundation hole on July 3, 2019. (Doug Hubley\/Bates College)\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190703_CCU_Bonney_0407_dlh.jpg 1919w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190703_CCU_Bonney_0407_dlh-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190703_CCU_Bonney_0407_dlh-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190703_CCU_Bonney_0407_dlh-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-125706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pipe up: Spliced pipe piles in the Bonney Science Center foundation hole on July 3, 2019. (Doug Hubley\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Despite the complications that come with splicing, pile-driving subcontractor H.B. Fleming has established a productive groove with its work. Shortly before the July 4 holiday, more than 50 pipe-piles had been driven to refusal, or nearly a quarter of the total. On average, the piles have been sunk 50 or 60 feet.<\/p>\n<p>The week of July 8, concrete trucks will arrive to start filling the driven pipes. Thereafter, in Streifel\u2019s words, there will ensue \u201ca really intricate dance\u201d in the foundation hole: Workers for H.B. Fleming will keep working the piles, concrete crews will be filling piles, earthworking firm Gendron &amp; Gendron will return to start placing the stone pillow, and then the concrete folks will be back to start on the actual foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are going to be up to three trades trying to work in there at the same time,\u201d Streifel says. For Consigli Construction, the firm managing the overall project, \u201cthat\u2019s going to be a coordination monster, because real estate is extremely tight.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5>Going to the chapel<\/h5>\n<p>The Bonney Science Center is not the only project Consigli is overseeing at Bates this summer.<\/p>\n<p>On June 10, the firm enclosed the Peter J. Gomes Chapel with a construction fence and got to work on the building\u2019s exterior masonry. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/30\/campus-construction-update-nov-30-2018\/\">we described previously<\/a>, the work is a new phase of a restoration project begun early in this decade.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_125701\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_CCU_Chapel_0397_dlh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125701\" class=\"wp-image-125701\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_CCU_Chapel_0397_dlh-600x900.jpg\" alt=\"The ongoing &quot;destructive investigation&quot; of the Gomes Chapel portico will reveal the feature's fundamental structural health. (Doug Hubley\/Bates College)\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_CCU_Chapel_0397_dlh-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_CCU_Chapel_0397_dlh-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_CCU_Chapel_0397_dlh-133x200.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190701_CCU_Chapel_0397_dlh.jpg 1279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-125701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ongoing &#8220;destructive investigation&#8221; of the Gomes Chapel portico will reveal the feature&#8217;s fundamental structural health. (Doug Hubley\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Consigli has begun with what Bates project manager Shelby Burgau calls \u201cdestructive investigation\u201d of the chapel\u2019s portico, seeking to determine its structural soundness. Although, as Burgau says, \u201cthey\u2019ve planned for the worst-case scenario \u2014 that the whole portico is going to come down and be rebuilt from ground up,\u201d she\u2019s optimistic that a less drastic makeover will do the trick.<\/p>\n<p>But the chapel&#8217;s masonry repairs, overall, will involve much of the building envelope. Consigli will repoint most of the seams (the turrets were repointed previously), replace or reface individual granite stones as needed, and replace a lot of \u201ccast stone,\u201d aka concrete.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, all of the cast stone windowsills will be replaced, as will the fancy traceries that embellish the windows on the east and west walls. (The north and south traceries will be done next spring. The east- and west-side stained glass windows, now off site, will be reinstalled following the sill and tracery work.)<\/p>\n<p>And replacement is possible for substantial portions of the cast stone courses that run along the walls \u2014 band courses (which do not involve glockenspiels, but we\u2019re always happy to mention glockenspiels) and angled plinth courses that cap the protruding base of the walls.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Burgau\u2019s dance card this summer is a project doubling the size of the college\u2019s sports medicine facilities, in Merrill Gym. The primary goal of the project, which began the second week of June and should be complete by mid-August, is to create dedicated space for the physical exertions prescribed in sports medicine \u2014 training, exercise, stretching, and other activities that Campus Construction Update tries to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, limited space in the program\u2019s suite on the ground floor has forced student athletes to perform those exertions in Merrill hallways. So a second-floor racquetball court is being transformed into an 800-square-foot sports medicine workout area, and the present space will be used primarily for first aid and other treatments, such as icing and taping.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_125702\" style=\"width: 1929px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190617_Construction_8922.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125702\" class=\"wp-image-125702 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190617_Construction_8922.jpg\" alt=\"Consigli Construction masons at work on the Gomes Chapel exterior on June 17, 2019. (Theophil Syslo\/Bates College)\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190617_Construction_8922.jpg 1919w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190617_Construction_8922-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190617_Construction_8922-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190617_Construction_8922-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-125702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Consigli Construction masons at work on the Gomes Chapel exterior on June 17, 2019. (Theophil Syslo\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Because construction so often triggers domino effects \u2014 tenants being booted out of one space are shifted to another, whose tenants are booted out, etc. \u2014 the sports medicine project entails additional repurposing of space in Merrill, involving football offices and custodial facilities.<\/p>\n<p>This roundelay is driven in part by the presence of a large ice-making machine in the former custodial area on the first floor. The ice was traditionally used only to treat injuries, but the plan now is to also use it in drinking water. This wouldn\u2019t be permissible if cleaning chemicals continued to be stored in the same room. But cost and other factors make it impractical to move the icemaker.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_125703\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190617_Construction_8637-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125703\" class=\"wp-image-125703 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190617_Construction_8637-copy-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"Demolition of an under-used Merrill Gym squash court in June 2019. The area is being repurposed into a physical therapy area for Bates\u2019 sports medicine program. (Theophil Syslo\/Bates College)\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190617_Construction_8637-copy-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190617_Construction_8637-copy-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190617_Construction_8637-copy-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190617_Construction_8637-copy.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-125703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demolition of a Merrill Gym squash court in June 2019. The area is being repurposed into a physical therapy area for Bates\u2019 sports medicine program. (Theophil Syslo\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So the icemaker will stay put, the custodians and their cleaning products will move to a new and larger location, and the old custodial space will be converted into offices for assistant coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Burgau is also overseeing renovations in Coram Library that will result in, among other things, the establishment of a virtual-reality media studio. We\u2019ll tell you about that in a future update, as soon as we figure out what virtual reality is. Real reality is confusing enough.<\/p>\n<p>Hebert Construction of Lewiston is the contractor for the Coram and sports medicine projects.<\/p>\n<h5>True Bluegrass<\/h5>\n<p>One of the summer\u2019s most conspicuous construction projects is the replacement of the grass at the college soccer field on Russell Street.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_125696\" style=\"width: 1929px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190617_Construction_8678-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125696\" class=\"wp-image-125696 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190617_Construction_8678-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A laser-guided land leveler prepares the Russell Street soccer field for its new sod in mid-June. (Theophil Syslo\/Bates College)\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190617_Construction_8678-copy.jpg 1919w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190617_Construction_8678-copy-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190617_Construction_8678-copy-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190617_Construction_8678-copy-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-125696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A laser-guided land leveler prepares the Russell Street soccer field for its new sod in mid-June. (Theophil Syslo\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe field is not in what I would term terrible shape, but it\u2019s had a number of years of use, and this is a nice opportunity to upgrade it,\u201d explains Jay Phillips, director of operations for Facility Services.<\/p>\n<p>Part of an outdoor sports complex on the far side of Merrill Gym and Underhill Arena, the soccer field is enclosed by Bates\u2019 outdoor track. Despite regular maintenance, 19 years of soccer-cleat caresses have taken their toll on both the grass and the underlying soil.<\/p>\n<p>The new sod will give players better footing and thus enhance their confidence and the level of play, explains Scott Lehmann, Bates\u2019 assistant athletic director for facilities and recreation. He adds, \u201cThe old grass field presented a few risks and unsafe conditions that the college wanted to address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to have this new, competitive, safe, and reliable surface for Bates student-athletes to compete on.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_125697\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190612_CCU_Soccer_0359_dlh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125697\" class=\"wp-image-125697 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190612_CCU_Soccer_0359_dlh-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"With a walker on the Russell Street track in the foreground, heaps of old sod on the Bates soccer field are awaiting removal on on June 12. (Doug Hubley\/Bates College)\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190612_CCU_Soccer_0359_dlh-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190612_CCU_Soccer_0359_dlh-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190612_CCU_Soccer_0359_dlh-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190612_CCU_Soccer_0359_dlh.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-125697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With a walker on the Russell Street track in the foreground, heaps of old sod on the Bates soccer field await removal on June 12. (Doug Hubley\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Monmouth, Maine, firm of Sports Fields Inc. is redoing the field. They got to work on June 10, peeling off the old sod and heaping it up for removal \u2014 which couldn\u2019t happen until the 13th, thanks to heavy rain. (Bates has stockpiled the old sod at its Strawberry Avenue storage facility for possible reuse around campus.)<\/p>\n<p>Ten days later, Sports Fields spent a couple days adding some new soil and contouring the field, using a tractor-towed, laser-guided land leveler to flatten the surface and build in a slight crown to promote drainage.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to have this new, competitive, safe, and reliable surface for Bates student-athletes to compete on.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Environmental Solutions of Yarmouth, Maine, is scheduled to come in July 8 to adjust the irrigation heads and valve boxes to the right level for the new sod, says John Griffiths, grounds and maintenance manager for Facility Services. \u201cThey should be done on July 10 and weather permitting, the sod could start being laid down as early as Thursday or Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That would take three days under ideal conditions \u2014 but, adds Griffiths, \u201cthe weather has not been cooperating with us, and this is not the kind of job that can be done if the field is wet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re looking forward to seeing the sod go down. As Phillips explains, the new bluegrass \u2014 yep, real live grass \u2014 will arrive from Fryeburg, Maine, in giant sod rolls, each four feet wide and 64 feet long. It will take approximately 300 rolls to cover the 9,000-square yard field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then, the most critical piece is that the turf is heavily watered,\u201d says Phillips, \u201cfor a minimum of six weeks without activity on it. And longer is even better to get it to root in and really be secure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project has been funded by parents and alumni, along with support from the college.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can we talk<\/strong>? Campus Construction Update welcomes your questions and comments about current, past, future, and imaginary construction at Bates. Write to <a href=\"mailto:dhubley@bates.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dhubley@bates.edu<\/a>, putting \u201cCampus Construction\u201d or \u201cDid the Stone Pillows sing &#8216;Different Drum&#8217;?\u201d in the subject line.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_125714\" style=\"width: 1929px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190624_Campus_Avenue_Construction_0621-copy-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125714\" class=\"size-full wp-image-125714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190624_Campus_Avenue_Construction_0621-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"Framed by the arm of an excavator, pipe piles stand tall in the Bonney Science Center foundation hole on June 24, 2019. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190624_Campus_Avenue_Construction_0621-copy-1.jpg 1919w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190624_Campus_Avenue_Construction_0621-copy-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190624_Campus_Avenue_Construction_0621-copy-1-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/190624_Campus_Avenue_Construction_0621-copy-1-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-125714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Framed by the arm of an excavator, pipe piles stand tall in the Bonney Science Center foundation hole on June 24, 2019. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer&#8217;s here and the time is right &#8230; for construction projects at Bates. 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