MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Work continues through the winter on $176 million of construction and renovations approved by the Board of Governors during a special meeting in July.
Joe Patten is the executive director of facilities planning and scheduling for WVU and says at the Milan Puskar Center, renovations are underway in the home team locker room, player lounge, equipment room and recovery suite. The project will also expand the Hall of Traditions and open it to the public year round, moving it to the front of the building. The coaches offices will be switched to the stadium end of the 38-year-old building.
“The addition on the east side of the Puskar Center will house the new Hall of Traditions and will become the new main entrance to the Puskar Center,”Patten said,”And that will be done in February of 2021.”
Patten says the work on locker rooms, lounges and office areas will be complete in August of 2020.
The work at Hodges Hall is valued at $35 million and Patten says the abatement work is complete an other trades are making progress.
“They’re doing some inside demolition work which will be completed at the end of this month,”Patten said,”The brick facade is about 20 percent complete and the roof is about 40 perecnt complete.”
The first renovations to Hodges Hall are expected to be complete in June of 2021.
Patten says the demolition of Stansbury Hall is complete, now workers are preparing the site for the new Reynolds Hall, the future site of the John Chambers College of Business and Economics.
“Currently, we’re working on all the underground work, underground utilities and the foundation,”Patten said,”We’re going to be frabricating steel as well,”
Patten says as spring approached the new Reynolds Hall will begin to rise along the banks of the Monongahela River.