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While Leahy searches for energy reductions and Coburn and Gerrity scramble for viable repair plans, more extensive work is taking place across the Charles. This Monday, the Business School will begin several major renovation programs. Most notable is what Paul H. Lapointe, assistant dean of the B-School, calls a "complete renovation and mechanical overhaul" of Chase Hall, a B-School dorm, at a cost of $5.6 million--almost half of what is set aside for the entire undergraduate House system from the Harvard Campaign. The changes in Chase follow previous alteration projects in McCulloch Hall in 1978 ($3.5 million...
This year, under the direction of Martha Coburn, associate dean of the College, the College hired two firms to "conduct an analytical study of existing conditions" in parts of four Houses--Adams, Lowell, South House and Winthrop, Robert Thomas, coordinator of the study and director of Harvard's Construction Management Division, says. For several months, Steffen and Associates from St. Louis and Fogarty and Associates, a Massachusetts-based firm, studied the mechanical and structural conditions. The two groups this week present their preliminary findings to College officials...
...year's study is more detailed and specific than the Dober report, which one official termed "quite global." Some officials fear that the highly analytical quality of the report will bear more bad news: that renovations may cost even more than the figures suggested by the Dober report. But Coburn and others see the study as a potentially beneficial, alerting the College to specific steps which may be taken to improve the Houses both mechanically and structurally. The study marks a shift to a more detailed method of tackling the housing problem, Coburn says. "What we're really gearing toward...
...efforts of Gerrity and Coburn suggest that solutions to the deterioration problems of Harvard pipes, radiators, wires, plaster, paint, brick and mortar exist, but the money dilemma lingers. Solutions to the problems, if found, will need funding--much more, many suspect, than the $12 million earmarked for the Houses in the capital fund drive. And raising more dollars, especially for important, but unglamorous and invisible mechanical work, will be hard. "Nobody's going to give a lot of money to something that already has someone else's name on it," Oscar Handlin, director of the University Library and Pforzheimer University...
Crooks acknowledged that the House system "really ought to have more flexibility for disabled students," and said that he and Martha Coburn, associate dean of the College, would get "right to work" to find the best way to renovate additional Houses by the River...