Special Dial Building Committee tours ‘mold free’ Dial Building

By Nathan Walls
Editor

The Special Dial Building Committee was invited by Vice Chancellor of Business Affairs Neil Hawk to tour the “mold free” Dial Building Feb. 23.

The building “has been deemed clean” by a Public Health and State Construction representative, according to Hawk in an e-mail sent to committee chair Dr. Richard Vela.

Interim facilities coordinator David Girardot led Vela and committee members Dr. Bonnie Kelley, Paul Van Zandt and Dr. Bruce DeHart around the Dial Building, showing stripped walls that run along the outside of the building.

Nothing has been or will be done to the interior periphery of the building, which encloses a computer lab, speech area, bathrooms and other rooms.

Girardot faulted the building’s windows as the main source of the mold problem, saying weepholes within the windows became clogged, thus allowing the windows to retain moisture within the building.

Concrete will replace the window’s wooden supports.

The university’s goal is to reopen Dial in Fall 2004.