I am setting out below an e-mail written by Kathleen Vanden Heuvel, wearing her Associate Dean for Capital Projects hat.  Here is the Executive Summary:  Beginning the day after graduation, the consstruction folks will have free reign.  The only ways into the building will be door by Simon Hall, the door on the north side by the bear statue, the door from the East garage and the doors between the JSP Building and the North Addition.  The library entrance on the east side, past the Registrar’s Office, be closed.  You will have to enter through the doors by the Dean’s Office.

Here is the e-mail with full details.

There will be a lot of construction going on this summer and this will affect how you can enter the building and also how you cross back and forth, east to west.  I will do my best to explain what is going to happen, but I am afraid you will have to experience it before it will make any sense.  The real purpose of this email is to put you on alert so that when you encounter a blocked entrance or strange wall in the middle of a corridor it won’t come as a total surprise.

On the WEST side of the building all entrances will either be closed off or be difficult to reach.

West Side Closures

• Southwest entrance and staircase (near classroom 100)–CLOSED UNTIL AUGUST 13:
• Northwest staircase (near classroom 110)  CLOSED UNTIL AUGUST 13  Note: The door will be open but you must enter from and exit to the north east parking lot.  You will not be able to go down the stairs to College Plaza.
• West terrace entrance by classrooms 12 & 14–CLOSED UNTIL JUNE 8
• Classrooms 100, 105 and 107–the hallway will be blocked off with a temporary wall–CLOSED UNTIL AUGUST 13
• The bike racks in front of Wurster will also be unavailable over the summer.

These West Side Closures are going to make coming and going to the Telegraph shuttle stop (on Bancroft by the news stands) a bit of a bother until June 8, when the West Terrace door opens again.  There just was no viable alternative, so allow yourself a bit more time to get to the stop–the shuttle departs on the quarter hour.

The following entrances will be open and accessible as usual:

• Bancroft / Simon (near Goldberg)
• East Garage
• Door between back of JSP and Boalt Hall (north east side of building)
• Door from parking lot near Archeology building–enter by bear sculpture

On the EAST side of the building there will also be a lot going on.  The library’s East Reading Room is being transformed into two 30+ person classrooms.  As a result the East entrance into the library will also be closed off starting around May 19 and continuing until August 13.  This means that if you are, e.g., in Zeb and you want to come to the library or to the dean’s office you’ll need to go down to the 1st floor, cross over to the west end, and then take the elevator or stairs back up to the 2nd floor.

New exiting maps have been posted in the building, and the exiting plan has been fully vetted by the Fire Marshal and Environmental  Health and Safety.  We will also be posting signs to help you navigate.  Nonetheless, all these changes can be confusing, so please let me know if you have questions.

If you have read this far you deserve an endurance prize.  Like I said, it is difficult to explain all this, but you will know it when you see it.  It is going to be a race to the finish to get all the entrances and classrooms open in time for Fall Orientation, so our policy this summer is to stay out of the way and let the construction folks do their thing as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Kathleen

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Kathleen Vanden Heuvel
Associate Dean, Capital Projects

Director, Law Library

Adjunct Professor of Law

University of California

School of Law

Boalt Hall

Berkeley, CA 94720

510.643.9147

fax: 510.642.9122

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