10-22-2024, 08:30 PM
The university has quietly been working on this behind the scenes but mobilization is now starting. The project manager appears to be Gillam, they have it up on their website. The building permit is valued at around 90 million dollars.
The university is expecting completion of this by December 2026 allowing M4 to be used for the Winter 2027 term.
Over the last few weeks very preliminary works started, fencing went up through the DC Quad a couple of weeks ago, the paths are still open as of today but once mobilization is complete the DC Quad will be the staging area so the paths in the Quad should be closing soon. Early this week the trees that are around the wing of DC where M4 is going to go came down making the space feel extremely empty. They have also been excavating a few holes around DC over the last two days in what looks like some kind of investigative work as to actual depths of pipes/fiber optics.
Today they brought in the site trailer which is parked by the DC exit closest to Ring Road by William Tutte Way. That entrance will be closed once construction starts, the bike racks by that DC entrance have signs saying these racks will be removed as of October 28th. There is nothing mentioned in the parking areas yet but along Ring Road where the bus laybys are in front of DC they have marked new parking spots and made curb cuts for accessible spaces.
Here's a really crappy picture I got of the site trailer while I was walking by which is the only photo worthy part of the site as of today.
The university is expecting completion of this by December 2026 allowing M4 to be used for the Winter 2027 term.
Over the last few weeks very preliminary works started, fencing went up through the DC Quad a couple of weeks ago, the paths are still open as of today but once mobilization is complete the DC Quad will be the staging area so the paths in the Quad should be closing soon. Early this week the trees that are around the wing of DC where M4 is going to go came down making the space feel extremely empty. They have also been excavating a few holes around DC over the last two days in what looks like some kind of investigative work as to actual depths of pipes/fiber optics.
Today they brought in the site trailer which is parked by the DC exit closest to Ring Road by William Tutte Way. That entrance will be closed once construction starts, the bike racks by that DC entrance have signs saying these racks will be removed as of October 28th. There is nothing mentioned in the parking areas yet but along Ring Road where the bus laybys are in front of DC they have marked new parking spots and made curb cuts for accessible spaces.
Here's a really crappy picture I got of the site trailer while I was walking by which is the only photo worthy part of the site as of today.