Administration Building Renovation

William George Agency for Children’s Services resides on 650 acres of picturesque land east of Ithaca and Cayuga Lake in Central New York. The agency is over one hundred years old and the current Administration Building was once the gymnasium for early residents. The last time the building undertook significant renovation was in 1981. During 2007 the gency built a new lower campus storage facility which in turn allowed lower level of the Administration Building to be converted from storage and campus store use into the executive management’s office suite.

Plans for new exterior work included a new south elevation circular drive and with pergola patio and Seneca Stone retaining wall elements. As the building’s north elevation retaining wall had failed it too was scheduled for replacement.

Building interior demolition uncovered significant structural deficiencies including failed exterior basement walls, structurally compromised joist and beams and water intrusion all along the north elevation, lack of ventilation and dehumidification also needed to be addressed.

Once corrected, new interior partitions together with sound insulated and furred ceilings elements were put in place.

Interior finishes are nearly complete at the writing of this article and exterior elements are slated for completion by late spring, early summer 2008.