Sunday, January 21, 2007

Monkeys build college

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SOMEHOW, we managed to overlook the following article from Wednesday’s OC Register. It concerns Saddleback's 'sick building', namely, BGS. Evidently, that building was poorly constructed (and maintained?).

But, of course, Saddleback's "monkey construction" issues don't just concern BGS. The Library’s got serious structural problems too, as does the Advanced Technology and Science Building, and maybe even Science and Math!

Um, I'm beginning to detect a pattern here.
The Business and General Studies Building at Saddleback College officially closed last week in order to allow renovations to rid the building of mold discovered at the end of 2004.

…Prior to that contaminated parts of the business building, about 20 percent of it, were sealed off while the rest of the building remained in use….
[Classes have been moved into] portables, which house 35 classrooms, [and] cover about 50,000 square feet in an area of the campus referred to as the Village.

…The estimated $7 million in renovations to the BGS building, built in 1984, are expected to be complete by the end of the year, said [John] Ozurvich [director of facilities, maintenance and operations]. Much of the building will be gutted except for studs that support the walls and some of the walls will remain.

…Windows that were not fabricated and not installed properly was discovered as the root of the mold problem by allowing water to drain into the walls. There was also an issue with the external roof drainage system. The roof has since been replaced.

…When he used to teach in the building [John] McCotter said he would feel flu-like symptoms.

Returning to the building a couple weeks ago to finish transferring everything over to the portables, McCotter said he felt congested in his head and throat.

"You could feel it as soon as you enter the building, how dirty the air was," he said.

…A redesign of the interior of the library is expected to begin upon completion of the BGS building. Expanding soil caused uneven and cracking floors in the library. The college was approved state funding for the project in 2006.
Similar repairs of uneven and cracked floors in the Advanced Technology and Science Building also caused by expanding soil are expected to begin after the library is complete.

The Science and Math building is currently undergoing soil surveys for similar problems.
OK, now I don't wanna be an alamist, but when I was walking around the BOT meeting room over by Health Sciences last Tuesday, I noticed a crack in the floor over by the majestic "trustee staging area." I peeked down there. Didn't see no monkeys.

But I could see straight down into Hell!

That ain't a construction problem, though. --CW

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

C'mon, Chunk! Stop your liberal reconstructionist commentary. You can thank your shortsighted liberal board of trustees and their administrator puppets years ago for these problems along with the goofy faculty union for sucking up the money over the years that should have gone into infrastructure maintenance. Your current board is now stuck with solving the problems of the past caused by an inept self-serving socialist group of ignoramuses.

Anonymous said...

Yeah! Since this new board came along, we've built that Health Sciences Bldg., and it's first class!

(Of course, that building just so happens to house the board and the Chancellor, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.)

Anonymous said...

ooh - Patrick, I love it when you get so, so so, well, passionate.

*swoon*

Anonymous said...

Who sucked who?

Anonymous said...

Who is this "Patrick" moron anyway? He should attend one or two board meetings, g et a clue

Anonymous said...

Patrick's too busy!

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