Parking Garage Construction

Kicked a field goal to win that 24/21 at USM. Mrs. Express opined Curley Hallman could not be that good a coach when Nelson Stokley beats you. She roflhao when EllisWho hired Curley.

We were at the Hattisbug win.

Since we lost to USM the year before we had to cook for them---My photo was on the front page of the Hatts-bg newspaper in my UL cooking clothes the next day!!! Loved that kick!!! Great place to watch a game and remember seeing the expression of Mitchell when he broke around right end and took on and destroyed the USM DB!!!

Parking garage construction has begun.

Snack Hut soon to be gone.

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Temporary Snack Hut behind the Library.

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A view from across Lewis Street. Rougeou Hall to left Fletcher Hall to right.

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Originally Posted by Bicky Rustle

With all due respect sir the information you provided is not factual. Farve and I are the same age 1 month apart and I started school in the fall of 87. Brett did beat the Cajuns on home coming in late 80's on a last second score with no time on the clock. I remember there was controversy with clock and time was put back on the clock for him to do so. I am almost certain it was 89 which was Brian's Sr. year.

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Lost at home in 1990 to Favre...I was a member of the Football staff....we went 2 and 2 vs. Favre

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Originally Posted by CajunAmos

Do you happen to remember the guy who was in charge of the cafeteria near the dorms. I think his first name was Mike.

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That guy gave me the famous joke that I have used many times...."How is dog poop and women alike? The older they are, the easier they are to pick up!" That guy was funny.

There was a Mike Cowan that was Cafeteria manager for a long time. A rotund man if I remember correctly.

They look like they are pretty much finished with the clearing and they are getting ready for foundation work.

This is a view of the site from the construction access road next to Fletcher hall.

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An auger cast pile rig was moved in and set up.

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They installed two test piles one for tension and another for compression. Below is a photo of the tension test pile. The compression test pile is to the right and out of the photograph. The four piles labeled "reaction pile" are what they will use to counter (or buck) the load placed on the test pile. It is a test that takes hours and is specific as to how to load and unload. They will be placing many tons of load on this pile to determine its ultimate strength. Hopefully is is at least 2 times the anticipated load on the pile. These piles have to set up for 28 days prior to the test. No other piles can be installed until this test is performed and the results are good. If the test is good then they proceed, if not then redesign is necessary. Everybody (especially the soils engineer and the structural engineer) hope the test passes because they don't want to redesign.

This is a very dangerous test because if any part of the test rig fails there are hundreds of tons of force that are released instantly. A hard had does not save you.

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In the meantime, they will be assembling rebar cages. There will be literally tons of this material to tie, one bar at a time. All of this steel had to be detailed, the details approved, the steel ordered and bent and then shipped to the job site. This work took place in the mid to late fall and over the holidays. The structural engineer is praying that the load test on the auger piles are good because, if a redesign is necessary, then this steel may have to be modified.

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The cages above will be lowered into the auger cast pile before the concrete is set. They will hold the cage in place until the concrete is strong enough to keep it in place. There appear to be about 6 long bars in the cage held together by the ring stirrups.

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No, Farve finished in 90, Jake was a freshman in 94.

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Jake was a freshman in 1993

Thanks HelmutVII for all the technical info and pics you have provided all the Cajun Nation, we really appreicate you and your time!!!

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Jake was a freshman in 1993

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At the time the 1993 miracle was the biggest single season turnaround in NCAA history.

Last I checked it still ranked tied for 4th, percentage wise.

In part because games were added to the season, and teams that would have just tied got to go bowling and grabbed an extra win.

You and the staff should be proud to park this somewhere on your Sports Mantle. I know I'm impressed.

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When mcNaspy was torn down years ago I thought a great idea would be to build an international student building for academic, historical, cultural, culinary, etc purposes ---it would have been an oval type structure with each country having a designated room with all sorts of articles etc. from the individual countries---It would have been built with monies from all the countries and have certain articles on loan ------ like Latin American FG kickers, distance runners from Ireland and African countries, and women shot putters from East Germany!!!! lol

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Most universities have athletic facilities in the middle of campus and not on a separate athletic campus like we do. Always wondered if we could have somehow gotten Girard Park donated to UL and we could have expanded our athletic facilities there, how that would have worked out. I know we are land locked and would have had parking problems, but that is the case at a lot of schools. It would have been neat to tailgate right on campus and be able to tour the campus while walking to the stadium. That is the one experience we miss on game days. Of course, it all worked out OK with our growing athletic campus and tailgating. UL could still use Girard Park for academic building expansion as our enrollment grows. However, I seem to recall someone stating that Girard Park was donated to the City with stipulation that it be used only as a park.

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Most universities have athletic facilities in the middle of campus and not on a separate athletic campus like we do. Always wondered if we could have somehow gotten Girard Park donated to UL and we could have expanded our athletic facilities there, how that would have worked out. I know we are land locked and would have had parking problems, but that is the case at a lot of schools. It would have been neat to tailgate right on campus and be able to tour the campus while walking to the stadium. That is the one experience we miss on game days. Of course, it all worked out OK with our growing athletic campus and tailgating. UL could still use Girard Park for academic building expansion as our enrollment grows. However, I seem to recall someone stating that Girard Park was donated to the City with stipulation that it be used only as a park.

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The athletics are not on a seperate athletics campus. There are a ton of other university activities around the athletics.

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Originally Posted by SlappyCajun

The athletics are not on a seperate athletics campus. There are a ton of other university activities around the athletics.

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Well I think that the academic expansion will be on the old Lourdes property----the frat and sorority houses are closer to the stadium than to Martin Hall as is Bourgois (H and PE)----We are in pretty good shape if we can just connect the 2 and hide the Fletcher thing with landscaping and Girard Park just needs something to bring it to look like part of the campus---I have been thinking that since I got here!!!

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Most universities have athletic facilities in the middle of campus and not on a separate athletic campus like we do. Always wondered if we could have somehow gotten Girard Park donated to UL and we could have expanded our athletic facilities there, how that would have worked out. I know we are land locked and would have had parking problems, but that is the case at a lot of schools. It would have been neat to tailgate right on campus and be able to tour the campus while walking to the stadium. That is the one experience we miss on game days. Of course, it all worked out OK with our growing athletic campus and tailgating. UL could still use Girard Park for academic building expansion as our enrollment grows. However, I seem to recall someone stating that Girard Park was donated to the City with stipulation that it be used only as a park.

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I seem to remember that a caveat with the donation of the land for Girard park to the city was that it stay a park. I don't think the property can be sold by the city.

What would be nice is the elevated tram between the main and auxiliary campus properties like was shown in some of the Master Plan documents shown earlier.

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I seem to remember that a caveat with the donation of the land for Girard park to the city was that it stay a park. I don't think the property can be sold by the city.

What would be nice is the elevated tram between the main and auxiliary campus properties like was shown in some of the Master Plan documents shown earlier.

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The people on Girard Park drive would go looney tunes if we tried to put a football stadium there.

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... I seem to recall someone stating that Girard Park was donated to the City with stipulation that it be used only as a park.

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... or it went back to the family.

BTW, when is the completion date for this project, if the tests are within specs?

Also, that is one long Auger bit.......Can we use that to pull the admins head out of their A__es and get moving on things! :)

Any Idea how many spaces will be available in this garage?....

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Originally Posted by leeman

Any Idea how many spaces will be available in this garage?....

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Spaces - each will be divided by a - (hyphen).

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Any Idea how many spaces will be available in this garage?....

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According to a recent article in The Advertiser, it will be a 6 story garage with space for 1150 vehicles and completion in April.

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According to a recent article in The Advertiser, it will be a 6 story garage with space for 1150 vehicles and completion in April.

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The advertiser article was in error. (imagine that) They are scheduled to have the parking garage finished by the fall. A portion of the first floor is supposed to have some class room space. I don't think they will be ready for fall. I think the April time frame was to have asbestos abatement finished in Stokes A and B finished. Then Stokes will be demolished.

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The advertiser article was in error. (imagine that) They are scheduled to have the parking garage finished by the fall. A portion of the first floor is supposed to have some class room space. I don't think they will be ready for fall. I think the April time frame was to have asbestos abatement finished in Stokes A and B finished. Then Stokes will be demolished.

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Ha, yeah they were extremely hopeful with an April date. You are on it, like usual Helmut!

This thread is "ON CAMPUS" but shows up under RAGE PAGE clicking, just for info.

Looks like they have accelerated the test schedule for the test piles. The test were run this weekend. Typically the piles have to set about 28 days. These test piles were installed week before last so it is a little over a week and they have already run the test.

This is a photo of the test rig on the tension test pile. The cylinder on the top of the large beam is a hydraulic jack. The large rod running through the cylinder is a threaded rod. A plate with a large nut fastens the threaded rod to the top of the jack. The jack pushes up on the rod in an attempt to lift the pile. They take deflection readings on the pile as they increase the load.

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This is a photo of the compression pile. The cylinder on the top of the pile is a compression jack. They place a similar setup as the photo above but the reaction piles have an all thread rod that ties the rig to the piles. The jack pushes down on the pile to load it. (a reverse of the tension test above). The tabs on the side of the pile are the reference tabs that they use to measure deflection. Sometimes the pile will rebound after unloading indicating the pile was compressed and the earth did not fail. They have tested this pile already because the hydraulic oil has leaked on to the pile.

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While waiting n the test pile they continued to do some rod busting for the pile cages. Literally tons of steel will have to be tied.

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Anything they can do to make things easier is welcomed for the rod busters. They tie a cage and roll it off. The top of the cage is to the right because the rods are an "L" shape. These rods will tie to the steel in the footings.

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Continuous "Ladder" auger to be used to install the auger cast pile. Each section of the lead is 20 feet long (you can see the foot marks on the back side of the lead). The auger is about 95 feet long. They auger into the ground and soil is removed. As they pull the auger out they inject structural grout through the middle of the auger. They don't pull the auger out completely until they get a return of grout on the outside of the auger.

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Getting ready for foundation work.

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Originally Posted by HelmutVII

Looks like they have accelerated the test schedule for the test piles. The test were run this weekend. Typically the piles have to set about 28 days. These test piles were installed week before last so it is a little over a week and they have already run the test.

This is a photo of the test rig on the tension test pile. The cylinder on the top of the large beam is a hydraulic jack. The large rod running through the cylinder is a threaded rod. A plate with a large nut fastens the threaded rod to the top of the jack. The jack pushes up on the rod in an attempt to lift the pile. They take deflection readings on the pile as they increase the load.

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This is a photo of the compression pile. The cylinder on the top of the pile is a compression jack. They place a similar setup as the photo above but the reaction piles have an all thread rod that ties the rig to the piles. The jack pushes down on the pile to load it. (a reverse of the tension test above). The tabs on the side of the pile are the reference tabs that they use to measure deflection. Sometimes the pile will rebound after unloading indicating the pile was compressed and the earth did not fail. They have tested this pile already because the hydraulic oil has leaked on to the pile.

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While waiting n the test pile they continued to do some rod busting for the pile cages. Literally tons of steel will have to be tied.

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Anything they can do to make things easier is welcomed for the rod busters. They tie a cage and roll it off. The top of the cage is to the right because the rods are an "L" shape. These rods will tie to the steel in the footings.

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Continuous "Ladder" auger to be used to install the auger cast pile. Each section of the lead is 20 feet long (you can see the foot marks on the back side of the lead). The auger is about 95 feet long. They auger into the ground and soil is removed. As they pull the auger out they inject structural grout through the middle of the auger. They don't pull the auger out completely until they get a return of grout on the outside of the auger.

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Getting ready for foundation work.

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--------Helm --thanks again for your work---I read a story or dreamed it (LOL) that the construction of the campus over what has been just completed say going back to the IPF and to what will soon (I HOPE) go up is over a Billion dollars--that is correct --correct???