DRILLING REVISITED... BAD CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES

The following memo was posted on building bulletin boards on Thursday evening or Friday morning:

There had been another in a series of informational meetings that afternoon in the community room 

about the ongoing construction in the building. I (unfortunately) walked in at the end of the meeting, so I don't know whether this particular topic was addressed. I'm bringing it up NOW, though, because I'd overheard a conversation about this in the hall after the meeting, and later asked Jean Figueroa about whether and when there would be work starting on the building's facade. He said there WOULDN'T be any facade work done; scaffolding would be put up to let workmen haul materials to upper floors in the building without tying up the elevators.

Okey dokey. I hate to call people liars, but Jean says he works very closely with the crew that's doing the construction. He's the maintenance director for the building. 

The reason I'd been asking about facade work is because I recall the last batch of brickwork that was going on the year I moved into the building (2009). It was noisy, dirty, and seemed to go on forever. It stopped for a while and then started again.The dust and grit generated by the work was not contained in any way, and it was all over the building. I had severe respiratory distress the whole time this was going on, and there was absolutely no relief. Some tenants complained, and for a while, when the crews were working on the FRONT of the building - where the public could SEE them - they had plastic tenting to contain the mess they were making.  The workers on the scaffolds were careless to the point that windows were routinely getting broken. Dust and grit even got into the fire alarm system, and caused a number of false alarms. This was documented at the time on the first blog. Workers at the front desk were commenting on it at the time because part of their job is to deal with the alarms.

In case you weren't here at the time, or you've somehow forgotten what a living hell it was, here's a clip from November of 2009 which has been up on YouTube since mid-November 2009:

CLICK THIS LINK:  LOUD DRILLING AT KENMORE HALL

or look at this:

I just want to know whether  this is what we have to look forward to all over again, or whether THIS company actually knows a better way to do this work. 

My COPD is worse, and I've had several hospitalizations because of it in the last year.