Yes, at last we have come to the day of the last concrete pour for the interior floor of the Lecture Hall project. These were all areas that also contain hydronic piping for the radiant slab heating system. I’ve been very concerned with these areas because we also have steel rebar that is placed over the hydronic piping. Our contractor at first just laid the steel rebar directly on top of the plastic piping; essentially the pipe was supporting the rebar. Well I questioned why it was not supported by chairs (or dobbies). After a little of discussion with our contractor, and talking with the manufacturer of the piping, it was determined the rebar had to be set above the piping. Anyway, we have a skookum installation on our hands. Here are some photos from today’s work.
Entry
Rotunda
Rotunda to LH 1 ramp
LH 1 ramp
Outside Classroom 2
I was also joined for a while this morning by Evergreen faculty member and photography buff Bob Haft. Here is my photograph of the photographer in action.
Photograph of the photographer
I also took a journey up to the top of the Evergreen Clock Tower today on an issue related to the clocks for campus and the Lecture Hall. I took the opportunity to get a nice aerial shot from that location. You can see the concrete truck feeding the pumper truck and the long arm of the pumper reaching into the Lecture Hall.
From Clock Tower
In that shot you can also see one of the carpenters installing the wood decking over the glulam beams by the entry to the Lecture Hall.
All together it was a very productive day. The crew that does the concrete leveling and finishing work are an amazing team. I could tell they have been working together for a long time being they don’t even need to talk to each other while they do there thing. Bob Haft noticed the same thing.
Anyway, I intended to get out a construction digest update last week but I got pulled away to do a tour of the Lecture Hall for my colleagues in the Facilities office. It was a good day to so last Friday being all the construction workers took off at noon to start their holiday weekend early. I’ve been giving so many tours to various groups that I am starting to thing my job title should be “Tour Guide”. I probably won’t be providing an update next week being next Friday is graduation. There will not be any construction going on that day so the festivities may take place without the disruption of construction activity. Anyway, congratulations to all the students and faculty to making it to the last day of classes! I’m sure it is a great relief to make it this far.
Have a great weekend!
Cheers,
Tim
Timothy Byrne
Project Manager
Facilities Services
The Evergreen State College
360-867-6093