W & M’s New Business Building on Track

By Shawn Day, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.

Feb. 29–WILLIAMSBURG — Construction of the College of William and Mary’s new home for the Mason School of Business remains on schedule, with the building projected to open for classes in fall 2009.

Workers are still using a crane to put into place the last steel structural beams for the 166,000-square foot Alan B. Miller Hall, and they also have begun installing layers of roofing. Last week, crews began pouring the building’s concrete floors.

The three-floor Miller Hall will provide a central space for business faculty and staff offices, seminar rooms and classrooms, which currently are scattered in buildings on and off campus.

A 50-foot atrium also is being built above the hall’s front entrance along Ukrop Way.

About 70 workers are at the Miller Hall site this week but project manager Rex Holmlin said that number will surge into the hundreds next year as crews focus on interior work, such as painting walls and installing five miles worth of trim.

Workers are expected to finish laying most of the half-million bricks needed for the building’s exterior by the end of this year, Holmlin said.

Substantial completion of the $75 million project is slated for June 1, 2009, with faculty and staff members scheduled to move in during that summer to prepare for class in August 2009.

Follow along Updates on the construction of Alan B. Miller Hall can be seen at: http://mason.wm.edu/Mason/Our+School/Alan+B.+Miller+Hall/Construction+progress/

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