After five years of construction, unfinished details will finally be completed at the LSU Student Union this month.
These minor details, or punch list items, have been labeled incomplete or unsatisfactory.
The Union punch list includes missing caps for fire hose connections, paint detailing and a missing intake vent for the kiln room on the ground floor.
According to Ken Bueche, Union assistant director of operations, caps for the fire hose connections will be attached this week. The paint touch-ups will be finished in the coming weeks.
Most items on the punch list are repairs of faulty components still under warranty.
“The punch list items are very minor and won’t interfere with student activity,” Bueche said.
Bueche said one intake vent was installed, but the second was overlooked. He said he expects the new intake valve to be delivered in a few weeks.
Lynne Maxwell, Union assistant director of leisure and arts, said summer leisure classes won’t be postponed.
“It might mean we can’t fire as many kilns, but summer classes don’t produce enough volume for it to be [inconvenient],” Maxwell said.
Randy Roussel, project manager for Buquet & LeBlanc Contractors, Inc., said the project is “not costing the University