Updates for Caltech neighbors

Caltech measures to minimize community transmission of COVID-19 include an indoor masking requirement, vaccination and booster requirements, and surveillance testing. You can find more information on Caltech's COVID-19 response here. As a reminder, if you are experiencing symptoms or have been exposed to COVID-19, you may not visit campus. Thank you for helping protect our community.

As building and renovation projects progress on campus, Caltech aims to minimize disruption. Crews are required to follow city construction guidelines and COVID-19 protocols.

Pasadena Beautiful recognizes two recent Caltech projects.

Pasadena Beautiful's 2021 Commercial Design Awards honored Caltech's garden-wrapped Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Neuroscience Research Building and a complex of 1920s bungalows that Caltech moved from the neuroscience building site to San Pasqual Street and carefully restored and landscaped. The awards, conferred every five years, recognize efforts to create exceptional landscapes that benefit the environment, the community, and people who work and live nearby.

Two projects on the east side of Wilson Avenue are active now.

1. Cooling infrastructure
   We expect occasional noise as the facility is renewed to be more efficient, attractive, and seismically safe.
   
2. Resnick Sustainability Center
   The site of the Resnick Sustainability Center, a future hub for energy and sustainability research, is being readied for construction. In May, we expect noise, trucks, occasional traffic control, and potentially perceptible odor and vibration related to excavation, dirt hauling, shoring, and other preparation of the site, which is just north of San Pasqual Street on the east side of Wilson Avenue. Details are shared on the construction page. The American Institute of Architects Los Angeles recently recognized the design for the future building with a 2021 NEXTLA Honor Award.

Neighbors are welcome to participate in Caltech public events.