Elevators to become modernized

The Physical Plant has awarded a contract to modernize the following 13 campus elevators: the six main elevators in the Clinical Science Building (CSB), the three main elevators in Harborview, both elevators in the Institute of Psychiatry (IOP), and both elevators in the College of Nursing.

ASK Elevator Company is currently removing them from service one at a time to complete work that can be done while awaiting the delivery of new electronic controllers. This may cause some inconvenience at times. The entire project is scheduled to be completed in October.

The schedule calls for major work in the CSB to begin in May. The west bank of elevators, which face Jonathan Lucas Street, will be out of service until the middle of July. At this time two of the elevators in the east bank, adjacent to the hospital, will be taken out of service. When these two are back in service the third elevator in this bank will be modernized. This arrangement will allow uninterrupted handicap access to the third floor of the hospital. There will be a few days when all three of the elevators in this east bank will be out of service in order to install the common dispatcher, however.

One of the three passenger elevators in Harborview Tower will be taken out of service from mid May until the end of June. When the first elevator is back in service, the remaining two elevators will be taken out of service until the end of September. The two elevators in the IOP and in the College of Nursing will be taken out of service one at a time in each building in late May or in early June. All four elevators should be upgraded and returned to service by the first week of September. One elevator will remain in service in each building during the course of the project.

E-mail Broadcast messages will be used for notification of scheduled elevator shut-downs, as well as elevator upgrade completions. Some inconveniences will be unavoidable, but they will be kept to a minimum.

Questions regarding this project can be directed to Don Detwiler, Physical Plant, at 792-4668.

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