Word: sprinkler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first-year decision's to put a clothes hanger on his ceiling sprinkler head started a flood and caused an estimated $80,000 in damage to rooms in Hollis Hall last night...
...renovation went on in the Yard this summer, none was on the scale of the guttings of Matthews, Thayer and Weld Halls that relegated several hundred first-years to 29 Garden St. over the past two years. Instead, the changes were more specific--replacing leaky roofs, installing new sprinkler systems, restoring a historic facade...
Holworthy and Pennypacker now boast new fire alarms and new heating, lighting and sprinkler systems. Holworthy also got new wooden floors and additional showers...
Each, of course, will boast new electrical heating and lighting systems, as well as sprinkler systems and fire alarms...
Wiggens thinks he knows why Bullock's did not undertake improvements. "Some companies decide they can't afford it because of additional costs, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, asbestos removal and sprinkler upgrades." Then he drops a bombshell. He has just come from Northridge Meadows, and that bothers him too. "That building had no plywood shear walls," he says. "It's a perfect example of a building that doesn't meet current codes...