Webster Avenue will be closed until July 8 for the first part of a scheduled four-month steam line installation.
The $300,000 construction project will replace a 500-foot leaking pipe that links the Choate residence halls, Cutter-Shabazz Hall and North Hall to the main steam pipe.
The construction which began June 12 is scheduled for completion on Sept. 1.
Assistant Director of Facilities, Operations and Management Steve Mischissin who is in charge of the installation, said the 35-year-old pipe had recently been leaking and its replacement "assures that we can heat the buildings."
He called the installation of the pipe a "continuing maintenance."
The pipe which originates on the north side of the Rockefeller Center for Social Studies runs underneath Webster Avenue and then cuts between Gamma Delta Chi and Kappa Chi Kappa fraternities and on to Brown residence hall and Cutter-Shabazz Hall.
Mischissin said there would only have to be minor construction in the dormitories, but that the Office of Residential Life has closed the Choates residence halls for the Summer term.
