Scope:

5-story, 250,000 sf dormitory and college.

Summary:

Grodsky was part of a team that performed a complete renovation of the building. The biggest challenge, by far, was retrofitting air conditioning into an old building which had never had it before. With access through a hole in the foundation, the basement was turned into multiple mechanical rooms to house equipment and piping. Duct was then routed through both new and existing shafts to feed the upper floors.

Unique Features:

Opened in September 1940 as the last (and largest) of the original ten residential colleges at Yale, and includes buildings that were constructed as early as 1901.