A room by room sweep of the Gold Coast will take place today and tomorrow to ensure all the windows installed in the residence halls are not posing a danger to students living in the dorms and to passers-by.
About two weeks ago a window mysteriously fell from the fourth floor of the building and crashed to the ground, prompting to College to take the emergency precautions.
"We think that either something settled or shrunk a little bit," Director of Residential Operations Woody Eckels said, adding that no one knows exactly why the window came loose.
Oaks Brothers is the company that was responsible for installing the new insulated windows last summer during the Gold Coast renovation project.
Employees of Oaks Brothers will be accompanied by building custodians and maintenance workers from the Office of Residential Life while they enter student rooms and check windows, free of charge.
If the occupant is not present, the custodian will use a master key to enter the room and allow the window worker to make the inspection.
In a BlitzMail message sent to the residents of the Gold Coast cluster, Eckels said the inspection will take less than a minute unless a faulty window is spotted, in which case a repair will take about 10 minutes.
According to Eckels, a student in Lord residence hall complained about a window being stuck. When a troubleshooter arrived to fix the problem, "it let go and dropped out."
No one was hurt as a result.
Eckels expressed confidence that the vast majority of the windows are safe and is not worried that any more will fall out and endanger the campus.
"I don't think it's a big deal," he said.
He added that the situation is not comparable to the 1973 John Hancock building incident in Boston, where glass windows rained from its supports during construction, some from nearly 790 feet.
