The contractor is scheduled to work Saturday, November 21, 2009 in order to saw cut and remove part of the foundation wall on the west side of the plant adjacent to the existing plant. Due to the nature of the work, workers cannot work in the plant below while this is happening.
Concrete to cover and close the vault, waterproofing, and stone and backfill will be completed this month, preparing the site for landscaping in the spring. Additional conduit runs and manhole work are also scheduled this month.
At approximately 5AM Friday, October 16, 2009, a garbage truck accidentally moved the crane the necessary distance to allow traffic to proceed down Mercer Street.
Mercer Street is expected to be closed to traffic overnight due to the breakdown of a crane on the site of the cogen project. The crane's counterweight is currently overhanging the street. The contractor is on site trying to repair the problem.
Police and FDNY are advised of the situation.
Mercer Street will be closed to vehicular traffic from West 4th Street to West 3rd Street on Saturday, October 10, 2009, to allow for the staging of a crane on Mercer Street. The crane will be rigging large mechanical equipment into the site from 7AM to 4PM.
Signage, flagmen, road cones and caution tape will be used to direct pedestrian and vehicular traffic as required.
Due to complications with the concrete pour, the contractor will be working until approximately 5:30 PM tonight pouring concrete in an effort to finish the pour.
NYU Protection Services staff have been temporarily placed on the corners of West 4th Street and West 3rd Street at Mercer Street to help direct traffic and ensure vehicular and pedestrian safety. They are currently scheduled to be stationed in both locations from 8AM - 3PM daily.
Mercer Street will be closed to vehicular traffic from West 4th Street to West 3rd Street this coming Saturday, September 19 and Sunday, September 20, 2009 to allow for the staging of a crane on Mercer Street. The crane will be rigging large mechanical equipment into the site.
Signage, flagmen, road cones and caution tape will be used to direct pedestrian and vehicular traffic as required.
Another weekend closure due to the rigging of large equipment is planned for the middle of October.
Mercer Street will be closed to vehicular traffic from West 4th Street to West 3rd Street this coming Saturday, September 12, and Sunday, September 13, 2009 to allow for the staging of a crane on Mercer Street. The crane will be rigging large mechanical equipment into the site both days.
In accordance with DOT requirements for over-sized loads, a truck will be delivering the equipment to the site late Friday night.
Signage, flagmen, road cones and caution tape will be used to direct pedestrian and vehicular traffic as required.
Work to install an electrical ductbank across West 4th Street (between Greene and Mercer Streets) from 19 West 4th Street to the new cogen vault is scheduled to begin Monday, August 31, 2009. The work entails saw cutting and excavating a two foot wide ductbank and installing electrical conduits which are then encased in concrete. The street is then re-paved.
Prior to start of the work in the street, the construction barriers on West 4th Street will be moved closer to the cogen site so that a lane of traffic on West 4th Street can remain open at all times during the installation of this ductbank.
Pedestrian traffic on the north side of West 4th Street will be unaffected by this work.
The work is scheduled to be completed by Friday, September 11, 2009.
Mercer Street is scheduled to be closed to vehicular traffic from West 4th Street to West 3rd Street on Saturday, August 29, 2009 from 7AM to 7PM to allow for the staging of a crane on Mercer Street to continue rigging large mechanical equipment into the site.
Due to the size of the equipment an over-sized truck will be delivering the equipment to the site late Friday night and will leave the site late Sunday night, again in accordance with DOT requirements.
Pedestrians will be permitted on the North side of West 4th Street only.
Signage, flagmen, road cones and caution tape will be used to direct pedestrian and vehicular traffic as required.
Mercer Street will be closed to vehicular traffic from West 4th Street to West 3rd Street Saturday August 22, 2009 to allow for the staging of a crane on Mercer Street. The crane will be rigging large mechanical equipment into the site from 7AM to 7PM.
Due to the size of the equipment an over-sized truck will be delivering the equipment to the site late Friday night in accordance with DOT requirements. The truck will leave the site late Sunday night, again in accordance with DOT requirements.
Pedestrians will be permitted on the North side of West 4th Street only.
Signage, flagmen, road cones and caution tape will be used to direct pedestrian and vehicular traffic as required.
Electrical equipment will be rigged through the recently cut sidewalk opening on Washington Place into the new cogen substation room in 715 Broadway Friday, August 14, 2009.
Traffic will not be affected on Washington Place.
The opening is scheduled to be closed and re-poured Monday and Tuesday of next week.
Waterproofing, installation of rebar, and the pouring of concrete for the vault structure walls will continue through August. Work on the electrical ductbanks crossing West 3rd Street and West 4th Street is scheduled to be completed by the end of August.
The Community Board 2 Parks Committee unanimously supported NYU's proposal for the Mercer Street Plaza at a meeting held on July 23, 2009.
Beginning the week of July 13, 2009, contractors will be installing an electrical ductbank across West 3rd Street from the garden area at the east end of 2 Washington Square Village to the new cogeneration site. The work entails digging a trench in the landscaped area at the north east end of 2 Washington Square Village and then saw cutting and excavating a two foot wide section across West 3rd Street. Electrical conduits will then be installed and encased in concrete. The street and sidewalk are then re-paved and the landscaped area refurbished.
The digging of the landscaped area will be started either July 9 or 10, 2009. Work is scheduled to be completed by mid August.
The Community Board #2 Parks Committee will be reviewing the CoGen Landscaping proposal at its July 8, 2009 meeting at 6:30 PM at the NYU Silver Center Room 206.
Contractors will be installing an electrical ductbank from 25 West 4th Street across Greene Street to 35 West 4th Street (Education Building). The work entails saw cutting and excavating a two foot wide ductbank and installing electrical conduits which are then encased in concrete. The street and sidewalk are then re-finished.
For a period of approximately two hours during the work in front of Campus Eatery, the entrance on West 4th Street will be inaccessible. During this time, the entrance/exit will be monitored by the contractor to ensure it is available as an egress in case of emergency.
This work is expected to be completed by end of July 2009.
During the month of July, foundation work will continue. Concrete will be poured to finish the lower walls so that dewatering pumps can be shut off and removed from site. Concrete will continue being poured until the walls are completed.
Mobile boilers associated with the Central Plant Maintenance project will be removed from locations throughout the neighborhood.
Street ductbanks will continue to be installed in various locations on Waverly Place, Washington Place, Greene Street, and West 3rd Street.
The major maintenance upgrade and abatement of the Central Heating Plant (CHP) which will improve the plant operations, safety, and performance is complete. At this time, NYU will re-energize the central heating plant and begin the process of transferring all buildings back to the NYU high temperature hot water (HTHW) system.
505 LaGuardia Place is scheduled to be transferred back to the NYU CHP on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at approximately 11AM. There will be a 2 hour outage of the buildings domestic hot water during this transfer.
To ensure a smooth transition:
The Community Board #2 Parks Committee will be reviewing the CoGen Landscaping proposal at its July 8, 2009 meeting at 6:30 PM at the NYU Silver Center Room 206.
The major maintenance upgrade and abatement of the Central Heating Plant (CHP) which will improve the plant operations, safety, and performance is complete.
Over the next few weeks, the central heating plant will be re-energized and all buildings will be transferred back to the NYU high temperature hot water (HTHW) system.
Please note that this Saturday, June 20, 2009 starting at 4PM (until 8AM) a 16 hour outage of the re-heat and domestic hot water systems will be required for the buildings listed below.
At the completion of this outage, these buildings along with Weinstein and 19 University Place will be transferred back to the NYU CHP. The transfer does not require an outage for these two buildings.
The 10# steam boiler serving the Silver Building will be scheduled for removal on Friday, June 26, 2009.
The temporary boilers will remain connected (but off) for an additional week to provide back-up capability if required during the start-up process. Central Plant engineers will be on site during the energizing of the building's hot water systems to immediately respond to any issues. Central Plant engineers will be on-call 24/7 to provide service if needed.
The maintenance upgrade and abatement of the Central Heating Plant (CHP) which will improve the plant operations, safety, and performance is complete. At this time, NYU will re-energize the West HTHW Zone #1 and begin the process of transferring all buildings back to the NYU high temperature hot water (HTHW) system.
West HTHW Zone #1 includes the following buildings:
The reheat and hot water systems in the above referenced buildings are scheduled to be transferred back to the CHP this Saturday June 20, 2009, at approximately 10AM. The hot water will be unaffected during this transfer.
Work to install electrical ductbanks across the streets listed below has begun. The work involved with each of these crossings is as following:
Street Crossing Schedule:
A series of trenches will be excavated across Washington Place beginning the week of June 8, 2009 in order to install electrical conduits allowing University buildings connection to the new cogeneration plant.
One lane of traffic will remain open at all times. The trenches will be plated over after work hours and cordoned off during working hours. Pedestrian traffic will be rerouted as needed.
There will be no parking near the areas of work on Washington Place.
The excavator is scheduled to be removed from the site tomorrow. Due to mechanical difficulties, work will continue until 4:30PM today to finish excavation.
West 3rd Street from Mercer Street to LaGuardia Place will be closed to traffic, Saturday, May 23, 2009 from 7AM to 4PM. A crane will be located on West 3rd Street off the Mercer Street corner to remove an excavator located within the cogen site. In addition, construction trailers will be added to the project staging area. At the completion of the work, the crane will be removed from the site.
Pedestrian traffic will be directed to the south sidewalk of West 3rd Street. Vehicles leaving Washington Square Village should not be affected.
Beginning the week of May 18, 2009, work is scheduled to excavate a trench between Shimkin Hall and Bobst Library across the south end of Schwartz Plaza in order to install chilled water lines.
The plaza will remain open to pedestrians at all times. Work will occur on only half the plaza at a time. The open trench will be plated over or barricaded off after working hours and cordoned off during working hours.
One of the trees located at the south end of the plaza adjacent to Bobst Library will need to be removed and replanted or replaced.
Total completion is scheduled for the end of July 2009.
Community Board 2 has scheduled a meeting July, 2009 to review the plans for the landscaping of Mercer Street Plaza. Meeting details have not yet been finalized. Please visit the Community Board's Web site for more information.
On Friday, April 17, 2009 at 6PM a shutdown of the central heating plant is scheduled. The shut down will last between six to eight weeks while the plant undergoes needed maintenance, including safety and infrastructure upgrades. Temporary boilers and hot water heaters will be installed to provide domestic hot water to most buildings affected by the outage. This work is not related to the cogen upgrade project, but impacts the project phasing.
Several buildings will experience a 13 hour outage of their domestic hot water to permit the installation of valves for connection of a hot water boiler to serve them. This outage will last from 6PM Friday April 17, 2009 until 7AM Saturday April 18, 2009 and will affect the following buildings:
On Saturday, April 11, 2009, a crane will be located on site - within the construction barriers on Mercer Street - to deliver metal rigging plates to the site. The work is scheduled to take 5 hours.
All but the first 75' (measured from West 4th Street) of the construction barriers along Mercer Street will be relocated to 11' from the east side curb of Mercer Street. This work is required to enable a crane to be located on site. The first 75' of construction barriers will remain at their present location.
Mercer Street will remain one lane of vehicular traffic. Signage for both parking restrictions and traffic remain unchanged and in accordance with DOT requirements
The relocation of these barriers is expected to start Thursday April 9, 2009.
The following work is scheduled at the cogeneration site during the month of April:
In order to provide adequate clearance for a large excavator to temporarily be located on site, the barriers at the southernmost 60-70 feet of barriers will be relocated to 11 feet from the east side curb of Mercer Street. Mercer Street will remain one lane of vehicular traffic.
The relocation of these barriers is expected to occur the week of March 23, 2009. The excavator is expected to remain on site for approximately one month.
De-watering has started on the site and there is an open tank located on Mercer Street within the construction barriers which filters the water before it drains to the city sewer system.
A trench will be excavated across LaGuardia Place just north of West 3rd Street to install conduits from Bobst Library to the Kimmel Student Center.
Work is scheduled to begin the week of February 16th, 2009 and is scheduled to be completed by the end of March. Contractor's hours are Monday thru Friday, 7AM to 4PM. The schedule of work is as follows:
The street will remain open to traffic at all times as the work will occur on only half the street at a time. Parking will be eliminated near the area of work on LaGuardia Place. Pedestrian traffic will be rerouted as needed. The trench will be plated over after working hours and cordoned off during working hours.
NYU has been informed that work is scheduled tonight in the telephone man-hole on the corner of Mercer Street and West 4th Street. The contractor will be allowed to locate their truck inside the cogen site, so they do not have to block traffic on either West 4th or Mercer Street.
We have been told the work is quiet (connecting telephone and data cabling) and is scheduled between the hours of 10PM to 3 AM.
This work is not related to the cogen project.
Beginning around 9AM on Saturday, January 24, 2009, the construction barriers on West 4th Street will be relocated to allow for the staging of a crane on West 4th Street, off the corner of Mercer Street. The crane will be removing mechanical debris from the Central Boiler Plant by the east side of Warren Weaver and loading it onto trucks for removal from the site. This is the 3rd crane installation to remove this debris from the site.
West 4th Street will be closed to vehicular traffic from Greene Street to Mercer Street. Pedestrians will be permitted on the North side of West 4th Street only.
Signage, flagmen, road cones and caution tape will be used to direct pedestrian and vehicular traffic as required.
The crane will be operating from 9AM to 7PM in accordance with DOT requirements.
Beginning the week of January 19, 2009, a trench will be excavated across West 3rd Street from Vanderbilt Hall to D'Agostino Hall, just east of MacDougal Street. Work will last approximately eight weeks. The street will remain open to traffic at all times, but there will be no parking on West 3rd St. There is no planned impact on pedestrian traffic. The trench will be plated over after working hours and cordoned off during working hours.
The contractor's hours are Monday thru Friday, 7AM to 4PM. The schedule of work is as follows:
As part of the Cogen upgrade project, there will be an electrical outage in the Kimmel Student Center located at 60 Washington Square South starting at 7AM Friday morning, January 2, 2009, power will be shut down to the entire building, including the theater, for approximately 28 hours. Life safety loads including an elevator, emergency lighting and the building's fire alarm system will remain powered by the existing cogeneration backup feed to the building. Temporary power will also be provided to the building's heating system during the outage.
Power will be returned to the building before 11AM the following morning, Saturday January 3rd.
The construction barriers on West 4th Street will be relocated Sunday morning (December 7th, 2008) to allow for the staging of a crane on West 4th Street, off the corner of Mercer Street. The crane will be removing mechanical debris from the Central Boiler Plant by the east side of Warren Weaver Hall and loading it onto trucks for removal. This is the 2nd of three crane installations to remove this debris from the site.
West 4th Street will be closed to vehicular traffic from Greene Street to Mercer Street. Pedestrians will be permitted on the North side of West 4th Street only. Signage, flagmen, road cones and caution tape will be used to direct pedestrian and vehicular traffic as required.
The work will begin around 9AM. The crane will be operating from 10AM to 7PM in accordance with DOT requirements.
Throughout the month of the December, the vault excavation down to the bottom elevation of site and removal of excavated material from site will continue. The construction barriers will remain unchanged during this period. Noise levels and quantity and type of construction vehicles will remain as they have been over the past two months.
Starting in mid-December and continuing for about two weeks, an opening in the foundation wall will be saw-cut to begin the underpinning of portions of Warren Weaver Hall. Also at this time, pits will be dug to begin the de-watering of the site. Actual de-watering will begin in January.
On Saturday (December 6th) or Sunday (December 7th) West 4th Street will be closed to traffic to continue the removal of boiler equipment in the existing plant. As was done previously, a crane will be located on West 4th Street for this work. This will be the second of three 'picks' required to remove this equipment.
No work will be performed on the following Union holidays: Thursday December 24th, 2008 and Thursday January 1st 2009.
Starting the first week of January, the barriers will need to be relocated closer to the east side of Mercer Street. The NYC DOT requires the contractor to leave 11' from the curb for vehicular traffic. A large excavator or crane will be located on Mercer Street within the site to complete the vault excavation and to begin the delivery of forms, rebar, and construction material needed to begin the construction of the vault.
The construction barriers on West 4th Street will be relocated Sunday morning November 23, 2008 to allow for the staging of a crane on West 4th Street, off the corner of Mercer Street. The crane will be removing mechanical debris from the Central Boiler Plant by the east side of Warren Weaver and loading it onto trucks for removal from site. West 4th Street will be closed to vehicular traffic from Greene Street to Mercer Street. Pedestrians will be permitted on the North side of West 4th Street only.
Signage, flagmen, road cones and caution tape will be used to direct pedestrian and vehicular traffic as required.
The work will begin around 9AM. The crane will be operating from 10AM to 7PM in accordance with DOT requirements.
There will be no vehicular traffic on West 4th Street from 9AM to 7PM. Pedestrians will be permitted only on north side of West 4th Street.
The outage schedule for Saturday, November 15, 2008 has been canceled. The work scheduled to be performed was completed last week during the previous outage.
An electrical outage is scheduled to begin at 12:30AM and be completed before 7:30AM on Saturday, November 15, 2008 in Vanderbilt Hall at 40 Washington Square South. Power will be shutdown to the entire building.
Several loads will be provided with temporary power including the basement server room (including air conditioning) and various pumps in the building as identified by building staff. There will be emergency lighting for 1.5 hours only.
The fire alarm system power will remain unaffected.
As part of the Cogen upgrade project, there will be two electrical outages required in D'Agostino dorm at 110 West 3rd Street scheduled for Saturday, November 8, 2008 and Saturday November 15, 2008. Both outages will begin at 9AM and be completed before 4PM and will shutdown power to the apartments, including: apartment lighting, all electrical outlets, refrigerators, stoves with electronic igniters, dishwashers, air conditioners, etc.
Domestic water used in kitchens and bathrooms will not be affected and non-powered telephones will not be affected (cordless phones will not work). Please ensure that your refrigerator and freezer doors remain closed. Anyone with special refrigeration needs for medications or diet should contact the Office of Facilities and Construction Management as soon as possible so they can arrange special accommodations as required.
Scheduled to begin the week of November 3, 2008, a trench will be excavated between Shimkin Hall and Bobst Library across the south end of Schwartz Plaza. The work entails removing the stone pavers, saw cutting and chopping the concrete below the pavers, and excavating a trench about 4' deep. Then, conduits will be installed in the trench and encased in concrete. The trench is then back-filled and the surface restored to its original condition.
While the trench is being excavated, holes will be cored in Bobst and Shimkin for the conduits to enter the buildings.
The plaza will remain open to pedestrians at all times, as the work will occur on only half the plaza at a time. The open trench will be plated over or barricaded off after working hours and cordoned off during working hours.
The work is scheduled to be completed the week of November 24, 2008.
As part of the Cogen Project, there will be two additional electrical outages required in Silver Towers II at 100 Bleecker Street. We expect these to be the last required outages related to this project.
This electrical outage on Thursday October 30, 2008 will begin at 9:30am and be completed no later than 3:30pm.
This outage will shut down power to the apartments, including apartment lighting, all electrical outlets, refrigerators, stoves with electronic igniters, dishwashers, air conditioners, etc., non-powered telephones will not be affected.
Please ensure that your refrigerator and freezer doors remain closed. Anyone with special refrigeration needs for medications or diet should contact NYU Facilities and Construction Management as soon as possible so they can arrange special accommodations as required.
In order to minimize inconvenience to the residents of Silver Towers, a necessary concurrent hot water shutdown has been planned along with the electrical shutdown.
The HTHW system supplying heat and hot water for Silver Tower II will be shutdown from 9:30 AM through 7:00 PM on Thursday October 30, 2008. This shut down is required to perform asbestos abatement work at WSV. The abatement is necessary for a project to install new heat exchangers in WSV to improve the hot water supply to several buildings including Silver Tower II. Domestic water supply will remain unaffected during this shutdown. The hot water supply will be restored at 7:00 PM.
As part of the Cogen Project, there will be two additional electrical outages required in Silver Towers II at 100 Bleecker Street. We expect these to be the last required outages related to this project.
The electrical outage scheduled for Tuesday October 28, 2008 will begin at 5 am and be completed by no later than 2pm.
This outage will affect power to the building 'house' (public area) loads including mechanical systems, elevators, common lighting and laundry rooms. Temporary power will be provided to operate one elevator, and all corridor and stair lighting during the outage. Residents' apartment interiors will not be affected by this work.
Between the hours of 5PM - 6AM and 1PM - 2PM, there will be no elevator or intercom service. While the intercom is down, the lobby guard's station can be reached at 212.995.3407.
A summary of the projected schedule is as follows: