Wando Mount Pleasant Building Updates

More building news from #mtpsc:

In the 1st photo, the edge of the children's area has been laid out -- looks like a great place to read!

In the 2nd photo, crews work on plumbing connections in what will become the public restrooms.

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The reality with construction is you deal with a lot of rain. We're no different at the Wando Mount Pleasant Library site this week, when five inches of rain fell at the site on Monday, April 23.

Normally the site would dry out in a day or two, but this much water gets pumped out. The engineers plan for these weather events when they design, so once construction is finished rainwater will drain off the site naturally so you won’t need to bring your swimmies to visit the library!

The webcam is set up at the work site! It's possible to watch crews turn this open plot of land into the Wando Mount Pleasant Library. You'll need to enable Flash on your browser to watch, though.

Current work is taking place underground while the contractor installs a type of foundation system known as aggregate piers. These piers are the first major step in the ground work of our new library.

There's progress in Mount Pleasant! Crews began clearing the land in Carolina Park for the new Wando Mount Pleasant Library. Clearing the land will likely take another week, and then crews will spend time grading the land and marking it for construction. Construction should begin in early 2018.

The Wando Mount Pleasant design is in the final permitting process with the Town of Mt. Pleasant. Site work will begin as soon as the required permits are received.

Representatives from Charleston County, CCPL and MB Kahn were in the process of reviewing the culmination of the design development for the new Mt. Pleasant branch. Once the review was finalized and cost estimates were approved, the team moved into construction documentation, which is the final stage of design. MB Kahn narrowed the groundbreaking window to late summer 2017.

CCPL set a tentative timeline to breaking ground on the new Mt. Pleasant branch this summer. The other locations will follow with staggered start dates to evenly distribute the work flow amongst the design and construction teams.

The Mt. Pleasant design team spent January and early February working through the design development stage. Charleston County and CCPL were also in the process of reviewing the culmination of their work, which is a substantial assessment that took approximately one to two months to complete.

Internal review of the schematic design proposal for the new Mt. Pleasant location was nearly completed. The design team was released to begin the design development stage at the same time. CCPL looked to schedule a community meeting to discuss this location in January or February.

The new Mt. Pleasant location design team created multiple schematic proposals for review by CCPL, and fine-tuned the possible designs to meet the specific needs of the local community.