By Mike Cummings
December 15, 2020
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Photos by Dan Renzetti
When a door, cabinet, or just about any other wooden fixture on campus needs replacement or repair, the craftsmen in Yale’s millwork shop stand ready to help. But as the university prepared to welcome back students this fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the millwork team shifted its focus from wood to plastic in order to help minimize the spread of the virus.
And they’ve been at it since.
The shop’s five-member team has produced and installed hundreds of plastic partitions of varying shapes and sizes on desks, tables, and workspaces in more than 80 locations across campus, including in classrooms and all of the residential-college dining halls. They also played a crucial role in the university’s successful COVID-19 testing program by designing, building, and maintaining more than 70 fully enclosed self-testing pods, which were used all semester by students, faculty, and staff.
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