37-39 West Wheelock

In her inaugural address, President Sian Leah Beilock pledged to add a total of 1,000 new beds for students, faculty, and staff over the next decade. As part of this pledge, Dartmouth plans to construct two new residence halls between 37 and 43 West Wheelock Street that will create apartment-style housing for Dartmouth juniors and seniors. These residence halls will add approximately 400 new beds and are designed to be fully accessible and will include such amenity spaces as a mini-café, community rooms, a treehouse reading room, and several outdoor gathering spaces.

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• Substantially increase undergraduate housing on the West End of campus.  
• Meet the institutional health, wellness, and sustainability objectives by targeting LEED Gold certification and incorporating high-performance building materials.  
• Create 400 new beds for juniors and seniors. 

• Initial site work is underway with construction target completion in fall of 2028.

• Construction completion target is fall of 2028. 

• Construction team began the installation of the necessary support systems for safely excavating the building foundations. This work will continue through July 2026. More specific activities and impacts include:

  • Earth-driven sheet piles around the perimeter portions of the property.

    • Installation of these systems uses large machinery and will generate noise and vibrations in the areas around the construction site that will be felt in surrounding buildings.

    • Use of a Diesel Impact Hammer which will generate loud noises to facilitate install of the sheet piles.

    • Mass excavation of soils within the property

• The project team is actively monitoring construction to ensure the safety of the work. This includes vibration levels to ensure they remain within limits that will not damage surrounding properties.

• Normal working hours will be between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., Monday through Friday, and there is potential for work on select Saturdays. Please note, the use of loud machinery for sheet pile installation will be restricted to Monday through Thursday with the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.

• The loud machinery work described above will halt during reading and finals period (June 4 - 9), as it did for the end of winter term.

  • Thank you and please reach out to west.wheelock.housing@dartmouth.edu with any questions or concerns.

• Project Management: Lindsay Walkinshaw
• Outside Project Management: Northstar Project & Real Estate Services
• Architect: Elkus Manfredi Architects
• Construction Manager: John Moriarty & Associates
• Contact: West.Wheelock.Housing@dartmouth.edu 

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