Dear Sandels Building Colleagues and Students,
This past week, we have busily been preparing the Sandels Building for occupancy and classes.
I’m pleased to share this week’s updates:
- The entire building is currently undergoing a heavy-duty cleaning, including sanitation of the bathrooms and cleaning of floors, walls and windowsills. This will be complete by the time classes start Monday.
- The expedited work and carpet replacement in Room 100C is complete. Due to supply chain constraints, the delivery of the new carpet for the remainder of the second floor and the third floor has been delayed until Sept. 9.
- Painting of offices and exhaust piping enclosures is complete.
- In preparation for upgrades, the department has removed all loose items from the basement. The contracted removal of other specialty equipment is pending.
- Remediation in the Dean’s suite has been completed. The certified industrial hygienist (HC3) is in the process of performing clearance testing. Remediation of the Dean’s suite exterior wall continues as the project team works to identify and remediate any source of persisting humidity.
- As part of an effort to ensure the sustainability and effectiveness of building environmental improvements, a moisture intrusion survey of the building envelope is being conducted.
- A survey of research equipment requirements will begin next week as FSU Facilities works to develop a recommendation for connecting emergency back-up power to the building’s research equipment.
- We are working with faculty in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology to identify additional space near the Institute of Sport Sciences and Medicine for research and teaching needs.
Please note that Sandels will be open for the start of classes on Monday and entry to the building will not require swipe card access. FSU Facilities is working with contractors to ensure spaces are closed and secured at the end of the day; however, I encourage you to lock your offices as you normally would before leaving the building.
If you have questions that have not been addressed in an update, on the Sandels Response website or in the FAQs, please email sandelsresponse@fsu.edu, and we will answer your individual questions to the best of our ability.
Best regards,
Jim Clark
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
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