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Capitol commission updates restoration projects; explores skylight solar and drone limits
Summary
The Michigan State Capitol Commission received an update on multiple restoration projects — Fourth Floor decorative painting, glass floor restoration and exterior dome inspection — and discussed potential voltaic skylights and tighter drone controls after a drone survey of the dome.
The Michigan State Capitol Commission on June 9 received progress reports on ongoing restoration work and initial plans for energy and drone policy changes.
Rob Blackshaw, the commission’s executive director, told commissioners that the Fourth Floor decorative painting is underway by contractor Evergreen and that crews found long-standing cracking in several brick archways. “The cracks are a lot less” on the north side, Blackshaw said, and a structural engineer’s technical analysis has not yet required structural reinforcement; staff plan to monitor the cracks and use flexible fillers in the plaster to reduce future cracking.
Blackshaw said the project’s West Side work will include removing and…
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