Site Introduction and Project Update for the Week of March 29, 2010
This site will serve to update ACU students, faculty, staff and community on the development of ACU’s new Student Recreation and Wellnes Center. Updates will be posted at least once a week for approximately the next sixteen months. Images of the new center’s plans are also available, as well as access to the web camera which captures images of the construction site.
Two weeks ago HOAR Construction, the company ACU contracted for the project, began demolition and site work for ACU’s new Recreation Center.
Over these last two weeks, the project has made notable advancements beginning with on-site work. Site work began with the installment of chain link fencing that surrounds the contruction site. Construction trailers were moved onto the site, with temporary utilities running to them and the construction zone provided by Morris Hall. Trees and hardscape were cleared, and eighteen trees that surrounded Gibson, ACU’s previous health and physical education center, were transplanted to other locations on campus. Temporary construction walls were installed where the two hallways of Gibson connect to Moody Coliseum. Also, erosion controls were set in place to control all water run-off from the construcion site in the event of rain. This is done by a series of cylindrical net-filled mulch barriers.
Demolition began on Gibson; the east end was torn down and removed. During demolition, all debris are sorted by steel, concrete, aluminum, copper and cinder block and then sent to appropriate recycling areas.
This week, demoiliton will begin on the south side of Gibson. This covers the areas just west of the double gym and the old excercise science offices.