If you’ve been inside, you’d see that it isn’t an easy building to renovate unless you shut the whole thing down. All the rooms are suite style, so in order to shut down one hallway or one floor to renovate – your are shutting down a LOT more rooms than you would in the Quad or Kings/English bc of the number of rooms in each suite – so all those students have to be re-housed someplace. Plus the entire building is an atrium, so it isn’t easy to shut down a floor and do renovations during the year as the construction noise echoes everywhere in the entire building. In that way the Quad is much easier, they can shut down a hall and work on it for a semester and it isn’t that much of a distraction to anyone else on another hall bc that place is built like a fortress. Given that some of the work in Hill is electrical/HVAC, they need to work on many portions of the building at the same time which just isn’t feasible due to design. I think this is the best possible way – frosh get a brand new dorm (which is going to be SWEET) in fall 2016, which gives the university a whole yr w/ no students in Hill to get the entire project done.