We've seen a lot of progress on the construction of the new music performance hall.
Underground utilities are still being installed. The mass excavation of the site is nearly complete. In the past few weeks, hundreds of truckloads of dirt — more than 11,000 cubic yards of material — have been moved from the construction site to the field next to Parking Lot Q at the north end of campus.
Some of that dirt will be returned to the building site and used as backfill. The remainder will be used for the future Golisano Training Center project (next to Lot Q). Reusing the excavated material is a sustainable approach that's better for the environment and saves money:
- The training center project will not have to pay for fill material.
- The music performance hall project has lower trucking costs.
- Keeping the material on campus means that the trucking company uses less fuel.
- It is such a short distance to dispose of the soil that the round trip time is greatly reduced for each truck. This allows the contractor to use fewer trucks to haul the dirt.
Looking forward
With the site excavation nearly complete, the next phase will be construction of the foundations. This will begin the week of March 13.
We will set up a web cam, as we have done on past projects. A link to the web cam will be provided in the next update.
