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The state building inspector issued a stop work order Friday, Dec. 20, at the Billerica House of Correction due to structural concerns.

According to Alex Zaroulis, spokeswoman for the state Executive Office of Administration and Finance, the state building inspector was called to the House of Correction at the request of the Department of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM), the state agency overseeing the expansion project.

"DCAMM called the state building inspector because they noticed that a column had fractures in it as they were working on it," said Zaroulis. "In an abundance of caution, they wanted to make sure there was not going to be any structural issues."

As a result of Friday's inspection, a stop work order was issued until the structural integrity of the building can be fixed.

"We will continue to examine it over the next couple of days," Zaroulis added. "There will be activity up there as they work to make sure things are secure."

DCAMM will continue to cooperate with the state building inspector, Zaroulis said.

"They will be working on it tomorrow to shore up any potential further fracturing as they continue to work with the state building inspector," she said. "Safety is our main concern."

The state has embarked on a $37 million expansion of the Billerica House of Correction that includes the construction of two new buildings, adding 496 beds to the facility. Detainees from the Cambridge Jail will be moved to Billerica as the Cambridge Jail will be closing. Middlesex Sheriff Peter Koutoujian hopes the move will be temporary as the state finds another suitable site to construct a Middlesex County jail complex in southern Middlesex County.

Zaroulis could not confirm what portion of the buildings was identified as having fractures.

"This will hopefully just be a small stop," she said.

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Miami, FL (PRWEB) December 27, 2013

Venetian Builders, Inc., Miami, has used French-style patio doors to solve multiple issues faced by all homeowners who expand their homes with aluminum sunrooms, said Chris Noe, Venetian president.

Venetian Builders designs and installs Florida rooms, patio covers and screen pool enclosures in all South Florida communities, including West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Deerfield Beach, Hialeah, Wellington and the Keys.

Think about the decisions regarding windows and doors that homeowners must make before having an aluminum sunroom addition built, Noe said.

Theyve got to determine just how bright they want the room to be, and that usually determines how many and how big windows must be, Noe said. Then theres the issue of access. Sometimes a single door just wont handle the traffic, especially if the room will be used for entertaining and guests will be wandering in and out.

Sometimes the best answer isnt a window, but a door, Noe says. Or more correctly, several doors, Noe said.

Venetian has used French-style patio doors, in either sliding or hinged styles, to build glass walls on Florida rooms, Noe said.

Double-wide and even triple-wide doors sometimes even more than one set have achieved several functions on a sun room, Noe said:

Ample light: A French-style patio door has nearly floor-to-ceiling glass, Noe said. Double that or triple it and you have a bright and cheerful room. Solid doors might as well be solid walls, in terms of light. Theyll just make the room darker.

Enhanced views: All that glass provides an almost uninterrupted view from inside the room, Noe said. Glass doors can give you a good view of the garden, of guests or of children playing on a deck or in the yard. To reduce light, just add drapes or blinds that can be drawn shut, Noe said.

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Millburn Township Public Schools will receive almost $1.3 million in grant money from the State of New Jersey to be used toward four roof replacement projects at Deerfield, Wyoming, Glenwood and Millburn High schools.

Millburn received the four grants through the New Jersey Schools Development Authority Regular Operating District grant program. The Department of Education approves these grants that are financed by the School Development Authority for school facilities projects. The state share funds 40% of school projects that are deemed to be priorities based on critical need. The grants are contingent on local approval of the remaining cost to school districts.

At the Millburn Board of Education on Dec. 16 the board approved a resolution to accept the preliminary eligible costs as determined by the Department of Education. It will take several months to complete the grant acceptance process. Work on the projects is anticipated to begin during the summer of 2014.

The total cost for the roof projects is $3,190,828, of which the grants will cover 40%, or $1,276,331. The school district is responsible for 60% of the local share of costs, or $1,914,497. For the three projects at Millburn High School, Deerfield, and Wyoming, the local share will be funded by capital reserve funds totaling $1.6 million. The board will continue to consider the funding of the local share of $239,752 for the Glenwood School roof project, with the possibility of including it in the 2014-15 school year budget, or by using 2014-15 capital reserve funds. The school district has 18 months to spend the grant money from the state.

The Department of Education received applications for more than 2,100 individual school projects in September 2013. On Dec. 4 the state announced the approval of $507.7 million in state financing to help fund 1,538 individual school construction projects in 331 school districts. "This is a tremendous opportunity for the district to save a substantial amount of money while accomplishing some much-needed building preservation projects we absolutely must get done, says Dr. James Crisfield, Superintendent of Schools. My hat is off to Mr. DiGeronimo and his team for securing this state funding assistance. It took many hours to make happen, but clearly it was time well spent."

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Borough officials have chosen a familiar company to install communications infrastructure and equipment in the new municipal building that is currently under construction adjacent to the old hall on Ringwood Avenue. At its Dec. 9 meeting, the Borough Council passed a resolution to award the state contract for the job to RFP Solutions of Woodbury in the amount of $262,484.

Borough Administrator Tom Carroll said that RFP Solutions been has providing the borough with phone system services for 10 years and has a variety of experience in the field.

"RFP has worked with many different courts and police," he said. "They know exactly what is needed."

Carroll said that he met with Police Chief Tom Norton and several other police officers to discuss departmental needs for telephones, audio, closed circuit television, door locks, and data networks. As a group, they determined what communications equipment will be required in the new building.

"This includes all of the computer wiring, intercom, phones, and 27 cameras," he said. The cameras will provide both internal and external views. RFP will also install a sound system in the council chambers and television monitors throughout the building. The Police Department will have recording systems installed in two interview rooms.

Councilman Ed Leonard asked for clarification regarding the type of data networks installed by RFP.

"Does this include servers?" he said.

"No," answered Carroll. "Thats a separate contract." He explained that in terms of this contract, data-network equipment will control the door locks, telephones, audio equipment, and cameras.

"Its not the server that handles our email, payroll, or anything else thats already here," Carroll said. He added that the server managing those aspects of communication in the current borough hall will be replaced next year, before the completion of the new building.

"We already replaced the work stations," Carroll said. "So when everythings ready to move (to the new borough hall), well just take the new stuff with us and it will all be done."

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The University of Connecticut does not have the signature gothic towers or arches of Yale or Michigan, or the brick walkways or gates of Harvard, or the brownstones of Wesleyan.

When you arrive on campus, no gate or arch signals that you are at UConn.

That might change, however, as the university embarks on a $2 million effort to create a new master plan, prompted partly by the taxpayer-financed $1.5 billion Next Generation Connecticut plan that will bring with it extensive development and renovation, including at least one new science building and residence hall.

"We don't want to put a science building down in the wrong location," said Laura Cruickshank, who was hired away from Yale in February as UConn's master planner. "That needs to be supported by transportation. It certainly must be supported by utilities, certainly supported by landscape a landscape that knits the campus together."

The plan will address the location of new buildings, traffic and pedestrian patterns, open spaces, utilities and environmental issues and the finer details that have to do with establishing a sense of place.

"It's definitely something I'm concerned about 'look and feel' and that's in quotes," said Cruickshank. "'Look and feel' is a really important thing for any university campus, and coming here from Yale [There's] a definite 'look and feel' at Yale. You knew where you were. I think that's definitely something we can improve upon here."

About a dozen firms presented proposals to create the plan, and the school has narrowed it to three: NBBJ; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; and Michael Dennis & Associates.

University officials hope to choose one of the three in January and go forward with the plan expected to cost $1 million to $1.5 million and to be completed by December.

Cruickshank, who earns $225,750 as the university's master planner and chief university architect, said that she envisions an open process, with public meetings at which university professors and staff, students and community members will be able to participate in shaping the plan.

The new plan will come at a time when UConn is embarking on significant development. Next Generation Connecticut is the centerpiece of that effort, which is a decadelong project aimed at transforming the university's science, technology and math programs. The plan includes increasing faculty by 259 and students by 5,000.

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