Dear Sandels Building Colleagues and Students,
In my quest to stay in constant communication with you, I am reaching out to update you on the status of the Sandels Building.
As I mentioned in my previous update, the university has hired an independent licensed contractor to conduct additional radon testing in the Sandels Building. That testing is being conducted this week. The analyzed results are expected to take approximately 10 days to two weeks.
In addition, I have met with the Vice President for Research and Vice President for Finance and Administration to review options regarding research labs. We regret the disruption and are working diligently to explore multiple paths forward. Those paths include remediation and repairs in the building, identifying laboratories in other campus facilities, and identifying external laboratories off campus. As you can imagine, this is no easy task and there are a number of challenges. We hope to have additional details that we can share in the next 10 days or so.
Further, we have asked a group of our colleagues to begin working on procuring new state-of-the-art hoods that would likely be needed for any longer-term solution. They met several times last week to discuss their specifications and design.
Finally, I wanted to let you know that we are working to schedule an industrial hygienist to continue to survey and inspect the building once the radon testing is finished. We will share the results with you all once they have been analyzed. Cleaning in the HVAC system will continue after both visits by the radon test specialists and the industrial hygienist are complete.
I appreciate your continued patience and I assure you that the health and safety of the campus community remains our top priority. I will continue to update you and the sandelsresponse.fsu.edu website with new information as it becomes available.
Best regards,
Jim Clark Provost