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Cannon House Office Building
Status: Ongoing Building: House Office Buildings

AOC is currently working to install fire doors in a number of locations throughout the Cannon House Office Building. This work will enhance the safety for occupants in the in the Cannon Building by improving evacuation time by enabling occupants to exit to an adjacent vertical, fire-rated stair enclosure in either direction within the building.... More »

Elevator
Status: Ongoing Building: United States Capitol

The AOC is currently making life safety improvements to the Capitol Building’s elevator emergency power system. This work will primarily be performed in mechanical and service spaces; therefore minimizing the impacts on building occupants. Construction on the Senate side of the Capitol is currently underway.

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Plaster repairs underway at the U.S. Capitol
Status: Ongoing Building: United States Capitol

The AOC has identified areas throughout the Capitol that contain historic paint colors or decoration that need restoration. In many of these areas the plaster has cracked under the stress and weight of multiple paint layers, a result of decades of repainting wall and ceiling surfaces. These areas have been marked for paint analysis; a process that allows the AOC to record what finishes were used in the past before repairing the wall. This allows the area to be restored to its original appearance. Once an area has been documented, the walls must be stripped down to a stable surface that... More »

Capitol Windows
Status: Ongoing Building: United States Capitol

Repairs to the Capitol's exterior windows will be performed April 1, 2013 through late September 2013. The repairs are focused on the exterior side of the windows and some minor work on the interior side will take place during non-operational hours to avoid disruptions to the space occupants. A scaffold system will be used to reach each window and perform the repairs. Once the repairs to a block of windows have been completed, the scaffold towers will be relocated to the next set of windows requiring a similar access to complete the work.

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Capitol Power Plant
Status: Ongoing Building: Capitol Power Plant
The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) completed a Long Term Strategic Energy Plan for the Capitol Power Plant (CPP), which identified cogeneration as the preferred solution for achieving energy savings, reducing environmental impacts, and maintaining a reliable source of chilled water and steam for Congress and the Supreme Court. The Cogeneration Plant at the CPP will use natural gas in a combustion turbine in order to efficiently generate both electricity and heat for steam. More »
Work is underway at the northwest corner of the Library of Congress John Adams Building
Status: Ongoing Building: U.S. Library of Congress

Work is underway at the northwest corner of the Library of Congress John Adams Building to replace the existing emergency generator with one that provides more than twice the power.

The existing emergency generator had reached the end of its serviceable life and lacks adequate capacity to support future needs of the John Adams Building.

To minimize noise impacts on the community work will take place between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m.

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John Adams Building Monumental Door
Status: Ongoing Building: U.S. Library of Congress

AOC is replacing the original, historic bronze doors of the Library of Congress John Adams Building to be compliant with fire, security and ADA codes. The new door design incorporates cast glass panels mounted within a bronze framework that reference the artistic heritage of the original doors by recreating the original, historic bronze reliefs in kiln-cast glass. The kiln-formed sculptural glass was made from molds taken off the original door sculptures.

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Scaffolding for the Russell Rotunda Preservation and Fire Protection Project
Status: Ongoing Building: Senate Office Buildings

The Architect of the Capitol is currently installing a new automatic fire sprinkler system in the Russell Senate Office Building, adjacent to the Kennedy Caucus Room and the Russell Rotunda. 

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AOC masons work in the Senate Reception Area of the Brumidi Corridors in advance of mural restoration that will be performed in February 2013.
Status: Ongoing Building: United States Capitol

The murals in the Senate Reception Area of the Brumidi Corridors are undergoing an extensive restoration. The ceiling and lunettes in this area will be restored through a combination of conservation and of replication in areas where it is not feasible to remove the overpaint without losing the original. The vertical wall panels will be conserved to reveal the original layer and the remaining walls will be restored through replication.  

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