Tentative Moundsville City Building Completion Set for Mid-October 2025
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Moundsville City Manager Rick Healy gave council members a tentative substantial completion date for the new Moundsville City Building of Oct. 22, 2025, during the Tuesday, Dec. 17, council meeting.
The completion date is based on a draft schedule that was reviewed during a city building project progress meeting held before Tuesday's council meeting.
Healy and representatives from the project's contractor, Great Lakes Restoration, and construction company, JD&E Construction Company, gave council members an update on the project based on on-site work at the building and discussions during progress meetings.
Great Lakes Restoration Project Manager Curtis Seward said they anticipated seeing a "lot of boots on the ground" for the project at the start of the new year.
JD&E Construction Company Director of Civil & Engineering Todd Dei said the progress made on the building so far was "favorable," but a "long road is ahead" for the project. He said they would continue to work in areas of the building they could in the cold weather, including adding isolation walls to allow work to continue.
"At the end of the day, your building is going to get done, and it's going to get done well," Dei said. "I think we have a lot of cooperation with Curtis and his group to rectify the existing problems."
Healy said the project schedule has been broken down "by room and by floor." He noted that they hope to install temporary heating during the first week of Jan. so work can begin on the first floor.
In response to a question from Vice Mayor David Wood, Healy said the city would have to send all questions and comments regarding the draft schedule to Great Lakes Restoration by Dec. 27. The contractor is then required to give the city a "firm schedule" with a "substantial completion date" based on the city's feedback by Jan. 6, 2025.
"The completion date may change from where it is today [after city feedback on draft schedule], and then that date will be logged in as the legal substantial completion date," Healy said. "That date may change some after Jan. 6 [when Great Lakes Restoration finalizes the schedule], but I don’t think it will change immensely."
With the tentative substantial completion date currently falling in mid-October of 2025, Healy said the schedule shows city employees beginning to move into the building in Sept. while construction is "wrapping up."
Healy added that after they move into the new city building, the current city building will have to be demolished, and the parking lot for the new city building will need to be paved.
Mayor Sara Wood-Shaw questioned the progress of the building's rework, noting that she knew the HVAC rework had been completed. Seward said they were contracting with a mitigation company to take care of mold and water damage in the building and that work should begin at the start of the new year.
"We will be bringing in additional power and heat to start drying out the building behind areas that had water issues," Seward said. "There's some other work that we're negotiating with the city and the architects, and until we get answers, they can't get started again."
Wood-Shaw then asked what work on the building looks like on a day-to-day basis. Seward responded there has been "very minimal work" performed for the past few weeks.
"The site superintendent has been there daily, mostly over the past few weeks, meeting with subcontractors," Seward said. "We just got a boom lift at the building, so they're going to start booming around and getting rid of some of the loose plastic and stuff hanging from the building."