Completed Projects
Replace Roofs on Various Buildings
Center for Environmental Science and Technology (CEST)
Library Upgrades Interior, Exterior, Elevator, Mechanical System
Dairy Complex Upgrades – Lagoon and Accessories
Facilities Gas Tank Replacement
The project involved the full renovation of Frisbee Hall, the oldest building on campus, including all building exterior/shell items, all building interior items, all building mechanical/electrical/plumbing items, all related site items, all accessibility items and all other ancillary items necessary. The building is historically significant to the college and the renovation was able to respect this.
Opened: Fall 2011
Architect: Mesick Cohen Wilson Baker
Engineer: Quantum Engineering, Watts Architecture & Engineering, Klepper, Hahn & Hyatt
Contractor: Bunkoff General Contractors
Construction Value: $6,700,000
To provide other appropriate space for four-year degrees in science, a 25,000 sf laboratory / classroom addition was built onto the existing Wheeler Hall. The new Wheeler Hall laboratory addition provided the campus with 6 new laboratories spaces including 2 general chemistry labs, an analytical & organic chemistry lab, a biotechnology lab, an anatomy lab, and an environmental technology lab. The addition also includes 2 large classrooms, instrument rooms and a microscopy room.
Opened: Fall 2012
Architect: Architecture +
Engineer: Sage Engineering, Watts Architecture & Engineering, Clark Engineering & Surveying
Contractor: AOW Associates
Construction Value: $11,000,000
This project provides the campus with a broadcast emergency notification system. The system allows the campus to communicate important information and direction to faculty and students during emergencies with the flexibility to target a single area or areas of the entire campus at one time.
Completed: August 2012
Campus Contact: Phillip Arnold (518) 255-5620
IT Consultant: Annese & Associates
Engineers: Zaremba-Sopko Associates
Contractors: Donofrio Aerial, Adirondack Cabling,
and Campus Construction Crew
Replace Roofs on Various Buildings
This project involved the replacement of the roofs of Bouck Hall, the Swimming Pool, Ryder Hall, and Prentice Hall. The scope of work included removing the existing roof systems down to the metal deck and then installation of a new system as follows:
Bouck Hall: EPDM
Prentice and Ryder Hall: Modified Bitumen
Swimming Pool: Modified Built-up
Engineer: OGS
Contractor: Titan Roofing, AMB Construction
Construction Value: $1,600,000
Center for Environmental Science and Technology (CEST)
SUNY Cobleskill received a grant from the federal government to develop a building to house an experimental gasifier. The gasifier will use feedstock (wood, dried manure, dried vegetable waste, dried corn cobs) to produce flammable gas which will be contained within process piping and process vessels. This experimental installation is intended to determine how much flammable gas the feed stock can produce with the hopes that eventually this type of system could be designed to feed a turbine and create power. The building also includes classrooms, labs, and office space to study the process.
Architect: Crandell Associates
Engineer: Clough Harbour and Associates
Contractor: Sano Rubin
Construction Value: $3,940,000
This project replaced the fire alarm head end panels in each campus building, the central reporting station head end equipment in the University Police and all the sealed devices (smoke and heat detectors, pull stations and alarms) with a fully addressable detection system and alarms along with a voice evacuation system.
Engineer: C&S Engineers
Contractor: Kasselman Electric
Construction Value: $2,150,000
Library Upgrades Interior, Exterior, Elevator, Mechanical System
The Van Wagenen Library, which was constructed in 1973, had not had any significant renovations to any of its major systems or components since its original construction. For this building to continue to serve the College the facility needed a major renovation. The project included code compliant building entrances, public and staff toilets, and building alarm systems, infrastructure upgrades to the existing elevator, along with new temperature and humidity controls for library book storage study spaces, replacement of the primary switch, substation, transformers and panel boards, and installation of additional electrical outlets and network connections throughout the library. The project also involved improvement to light efficiency and controls, replacement of water closets and urinals with water saving fixtures, and repair work on masonry exterior walls.
Architect: Architecture +
Engineer: Sage Engineering, Watts Architecture & Engineering
Contractor: AOW
Construction Value: $2,370,000
Dairy Complex Upgrades – Lagoon and Accessories
The new Dairy Complex Lagoon project was constructed to address the Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) deficiencies for the bulk silos, which needed to be altered to collect high flow runoff and transfer this flow to properly designed and maintained filter areas with adequate manure storage capacity. The scope for this project included expanding the manure storage system, improving the flush systems in the dairy barn and milking parlor, improving the manure separation system.
Architect: Architecture +
Contractor: James H. Maloy
Construction Value: $960,000
Facilities Gas Tank Replacement
This project involved the replacement of the gas and diesel tanks and dispensing system at the facilities complex. The work included removal and disposal of the entire existing tank structure, filling holes and resurfacing the pavement, installing two new tanks, dispensers, island concrete pads, fire protection, conduit, trenching, leak detection, fuel management system and inspection.
Engineer: OGS
Contractor: Environmental & Fueling systems
Construction Value: $320,000
Getting Around Campus
The two entrances on the upper level to Knapp Hall may need to be closed at various times this week and possible early next week (depending on the weather) to allow for installation of handrails for the exterior stairs and ramps. To maintain two means of egress from the building, only one of the entrances will be closed at any one time.
All other entrances and exits are currently open for all buildings, except around the Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources building construction site.
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