College Updates

College Updates

As part of campus improvements planned for the fiscal year 2018, during summer 2017 Trinity will make structural and code-related repairs at College-owned residential properties on Allen Place, Vernon Street, and New Britain Avenue. Repairs to be made at these properties were determined through a comprehensive review by structural engineers and inspectors of all Trinity-owned residential properties. 

The College is committed to ensuring that all of its properties are safe spaces and has implemented policies and procedures designed to prevent an incident like the September 2016 balcony collapse at 1713-1715 Broad Street from happening again. The 1713-1715 Broad Street building will remain unoccupied and secured until its future use is determined by Trinity's overall planning for facilities asset management. 

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Trinity College remains committed to the safety of all members of our community, and the College is working diligently to inspect College-owned residential properties and remedy issues that come to our attention. As of today, safety inspections at all Trinity-owned residential properties have been completed, and we expect to receive a report within one week. Trinity will share the information with the residents in each property and work to remedy any identified issues as promptly as possible. 

In some cases, repairs have already occurred. With the completion of the safety inspections, Trinity is now turning its full attention to structural inspections. This is a more in-depth and intensive inspection that examines the structural integrity of a building. 

Information about the Collge Updates

These inspections will occur at all Trinity-owned residential properties, and we will provide an update when we have more information about when the inspections will be completed.  As with the safety inspections, the inspectors will provide a comprehensive report of any items that require remediation, and we will work quickly to remedy them.​ Today, Trinity College released the independent site investigation report of the balcony collapse at 1713-1715 Broad Street on September 10, 2017.

The report, conducted by Cirrus Structural Engineering, found the two elevated decks to be structurally deficient relative to "code requirements, engineering principles and general best practice." The report further concluded that "the failure of the rear elevated decks at 1713-1715 Broad Street was primarily caused by construction flaws..." ​