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40 n e w h a v e n B I Z | M a r c h 2 0 2 0 | n e w h a v e n b i z . c o m Continued from Page 39 Congratulations to the Power 50 "Although our building is closing, the programs that we run do not stop. We will simply hold them in other facilities." Up Science Hill behind the Peabody, for instance, the brand new Yale Science Building houses a 500-seat lecture Marsh Lecture Hall, also funded by Bass. "We installed an exhibit in the lobby surrounding the lecture hall that was real dinosaur specimens," DeNatale says. "at space will be used for other things as well: labs, scientific classes. It's a place where we can do a lot of the programming that we're accustomed to doing now." "When the big public event days — Fiesta Latina and the MLK festival days — we get thousands of visitors," DeNatale explains. "ose will continue [during the renova- tion]. But we're just going to utilize different resources on campus and maybe in the city at large. e new Schwarzman Center at Yale will be coming online. at's meant to be a community center. We're working with them to make sure that we could from time to time have pro- gram space there as well." e multi-phase construction project will begin this spring and by the middle of 2022 construc- tion will be winding down. It will take an entire year to reinstall the exhibits into the new building. "You can imagine it's quite a complex task to bring the dinosaurs back in and reassemble them, as well as putting up brand new exhib- its in all spaces," DeNatale says. e new Peabody will be Yale's first LEED Sustainable Gold Ver- sion 4 building, which represents some of the highest standards for sustainable construction and operation. e latest version looks beyond energy consumption ties in wellness-related issues for both the staff and the public at large. It also considers mobility issues including bike racks and parking. Funda- mental goals are related to both sustainability and accessibility. "On Sachem Street for instance, we are going to have a new bus pull- off. School buses — we get hun- dreds of them — don't have a safe way to disembark now," DeNatale explains. "ey're literally stopping in the street. We're going to create a new pull-off with a ramp area up to an accessible entrance." A brand new structure will rise in the empty courtyard behind the Peabody which will include a new entrance onto a patio between the Peabody and Kline Biology Tower, creating what DeNatale describes as a wonderful community environ- ment that also connects up to the new Yale Science Building. A new entrance on the north side will welcome Yale students, faculty and researchers, to connect with Science Hill and heavily traveled pathways of Yale students. Without question, a complex and fascinating project. "People show up to places like ours for a moment that can't happen anywhere else." — Museum Director David Skelly ARTS & CULTURE

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