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A short stretch of Bluff Road just south of Southwood Drive will be closed Monday, Nov. 12, 2018. Signs and barricades will mark the closure; use Rock Road as an alternate.

Map of Bluff Road closure

The Downers Grove Township Highway Department tentatively plans to close a portion of Cass Avenue on Wednesday, Oct. 24, and Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. The department will be replacing a culvert.

Cass Avenue will be closed from just north of the Argonne Shipping/Receiving entrance to 91st Street. Bluff Road to the Shipping/Receiving entrance on Cass … Read More »

Anyone who travels around the north side of Argonne’s site has observed that the Materials Design Laboratory is coming along nicely, but have you also noticed the great progress being made constructing the south expansion to the Theory and Computing Sciences Building? The expansion is expected to be under roof by November of this year, … Read More »

On Thursday, Aug. 30, and Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, the hallway outside the west restrooms near the entrance to the Health and Employee Wellness (HEW) clinic will be renovated.

During the renovation, employees will not be able to access the HEW clinic via the northwest handicap entrance, and the west restrooms will be inaccessible. Access … Read More »

All entrances and exits will remain open to pedestrian traffic during construction for the Building 201 First Floor Cubicle Renovation project, but visitors to the Health and Employee Wellness (HEW) clinic will need to follow the directional signs located near the elevators to access HEW. The regular route through the 201 Art gallery will be … Read More »

A redesign of the Building 401/402 APS plaza, the area in front of the main entrance, will begin on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018. Argonne’s Infrastructure Services is leading the project, which will substantially reduce the amount of concrete in the plaza and add new trees, grass, garden beds and outdoor seating.

“The plaza redesign will … Read More »

PMO team members, Chris Baltas, Terrance Day, Aneta Kowalkowski and Brian Van Acker, put their new protective helmets to the test on the MDL construction site.

This month, members of the Project Management Organization (PMO) team are using … Read More »

Utility work for Building 240 is scheduled to begin Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018, and will continue through October 2018 as part of the ongoing construction project.

The building’s southeast sidewalk and portions of the east parking lot will be affected (see image below).  Impact to the east parking lot will be minimal.

The site’s FedEx … Read More »

As part of the Materials Design Laboratory construction project, workers will be opening, purging and refilling the natural gas lines that feed the generator for the Visitor Center. On Tuesday, Oct. 17, and Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, it is likely that there will be a natural gas scent at times. There is … Read More »

A portion of Old Bluff Road will be closed from Tuesday, Sept. 26, through Thursday morning, Sept. 28, 2017, due to the installation of a new natural gas line reaching from the intersection of Southwood Drive and Old Bluff Road into Building 583. The area near Building 583 will be closed for the construction project.

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