Hilltop Campus
Phase IVB Housing
The superstructure work is complete. Mechanical, electric and plumbing (MEP) rough-ins are progressing. Tarlton Corp. is on schedule for the project. Occupancy remains scheduled for August.
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
In the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, the curtain wall and glazing at the south continue. The loading dock studs and densglass, and interior walls continue. The metal-panel installation continues at the penthouse. Painting continues at the ground floor.
The second floor ceiling rough-in at the gallery and hallway continues. The installation of the security and communication cable continues. The skylight installation was substantially complete March 24; the skylight plaster framing began March 27. The painting and acoustical ceilings at the second-floor offices are substantially complete.
For Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Hall, south canopy steel installation continues, as does north elevation stonework. The curtain wall framing at the clearstory is complete, interior plaster framing continues and curtain wall at the west entrance has started. Metal panel and standing seam roof continues.
The MEP equipment hookups continue on the ground floor, and startup operations are complete. Ceiling framing rough-in continues. First-floor drywall continues as curtain wall allows.
MEP rough-in and light layout is substantially complete. The second-floor overhead rough-in is complete and the plenum wall framing continues. Occupancy is expected in July.
Social Sciences/School of Law Building
The architecture firm of Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood is progressing with the design, with an anticipated completion of the design May 1.
University Center
The architectural firm Tsoi/Kobus & Associates has received University comments to the schematic design and is incorporating them into the design.
Medical Campus
Taylor Parking Garage
The 600 parking spaces being added to the garage at Clayton and Taylor avenues are expected to be available by the end of May for staff, faculty and visitor parking. In addition, the Metro garage at Taylor and Children’s Place is expected to be complete by the end of May. That garage will include 700 parking spaces for employees and the public.
Metro plans to move its bus routes off of Euclid Avenue to the first-level transit plaza in the garage May 29. There will also be a ground-level access from the garage to the MetroLink platform.
Northwest Tower
Construction of the Northwest Tower on top of the St. Louis Children’s Hospital garage, will add eight floors and 195,000 square feet of space expected to be ready by mid-September.
Barnes-Jewish College of Nursing
Demolition of the Dazor Manufacturing Corp. building at Duncan and Taylor avenues is complete. That space will be the home of a $40 million Barnes-Jewish College of Nursing, replacing the current facility on Kingshighway Boulevard. Groundbreaking is scheduled for this summer, with completion expected in late 2007.
MetroLink Expansion
Both platform entrances and elevators at the Forest Park Parkway-De Baliviere Avenue station are completely open to the public. Fence construction and light installation continues on the Des Peres Avenue pedestrian bridge. Pavement repair on the Parkway between De Baliviere to Des Peres and grading of the Parkway east of Skinker are both ongoing.
Concrete work continues to progress on the northeast emergency egress and southwest access tunnel at the Skinker station. Electrical, plumbing and station finishes activities are also ongoing at the Skinker station.
Curb and sidewalk construction on the Parkway west of Skinker continues, and improvements to University Drive have started.
Asphalt-paving crews have already superpaved the Parkway from Hanley Road to Forsyth Boulevard and from Big Bend Boulevard east.