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Richard W. Wrangham - Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Harvard College Professor, Master of Currier House...
According to Zak M. Gingo '98, director of facilities management and operations, the University has been working since last year on a two-year infrastructural modification—the installation of the sprinkler system in all the University's residential buildings. Currier is the last undergraduate residential building to have the sprinklers installed, and most of that work will take place this summer...
...during spring break, some of Currier House’s closets—which will eventually be used to run vertical water-carrying pipes—will undergo an asbestos-abatement process first, in order to get rid of the thin fibrous crystals found in the closet floor tiles, that if airborne and inhaled, can cause serious lung cancers...
Gingo, however, said that the asbestos in Currier is not dangerous when it is sitting still in tile. The abatement process is meant to prevent any possible disruption of the tiles that may take place when the pipes are installed and cause the asbestos to become airborne...
Though it may not be a health concern, that's just enough time for students who are spending their spring break in Currier to be driven crazy by all the noise associated with the abatement process...