Big Shift crews have been pounding the pavement, installing hot water pipes throughout the quad district for the past 17 months. Through careful planning and hard work, the Big Shift team completed construction on major streets and intersections while the campus was operating at a reduced capacity to minimize the impact of construction.
Big Shift crews are busy at work on California Avenue, Bioletti Way and Hutchison Drive, digging trenches, installing new pipes, and covering installed pipes.
Big Shift crews have made significant progress in construction near Young Hall and in the Young Hall courtyard and are working on finalizing construction near East Quad. In addition, crews have started construction near the Silo and on Tercero Hall Drive.
As crews finalize work on North Quad and continue work on East Quad, Big Shift construction will be expanding off of East Quad and into the Young Hall Courtyard.
Approximately four crews will be working during this timeframe. Crews 1 and 2 are installing pipe on North Quad while Crew 3 does the same on East Quad. Crew 4 is working near the Enology Lab Building on the construction of a heat exchanger building as well as nearby trenching.
Construction crews continue trenching, excavating, and installing pipe near the Memorial Union along North Quad and now stretching down East Quad, resulting in closures and detours.
North Quad is closed to all traffic as construction crews are hard at work trenching, laying pipe and preparing to install a new heat exchanger, all part of the first phase of the Big Shift.
Contractors will begin trenching and preparing for the installation of a new heat exchanger as part of UC Davis's Big Shift -- a project that literally lays the groundwork for the campus's carbon-neutral future.
