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Construction crews continue Muon Campus construction. The large area in the foreground will be the remote handling room. Just above, on the other side of the rebar, will be the drop hatch area. Photo: Marty Murphy, AD Despite a rainy construction season, general contractor Whittaker Construction & Excavating is making good progress on the Mu2e Building. The large basement slabs are under construction, with concrete forms being installed to start the foundation wall-pouring soon. The photo above shows in the…

Kent Collins Kent Collins, acting head of the Facilities Engineering Services Section, wrote this column. Next summer FESS will start demolition and replacement of the high-voltage electrical Master Substation service building. Incoming power from the Commonwealth Edison transmission lines on the east perimeter of the Fermilab site is conducted southward on the Bob Wilson-designed pi-pole line to the substation. It is transformed from 345-kilovolt to 13.8-kilovolt service in the substation yard transformers, and it is metered and switched to the…