Water Tower Marketing

[Turbine]

Academic: LOUISIANA

Athletic: Ragin' Cajuns

[HelmutVII]

Academic: LOUISIANA

Athletic: Ragin' Cajuns

That is correct. Academic says "University of Louisiana Lafayette" with a FDL. Lafayette being in small letters. Athletic being Ragin Cajuns like on the football field. There will be no pepper though.

[CajunAlum10]

For those of you that are local to the Lafayette area, you might want to check out the Betrand Drive water tower this week. We made the final decision for the location of the logos today. The top of the letters in "Lafayette" for the academic logo will be located at the top of the hand rail and will be partially obscured by the railing and supports. Everything else will be above the hand rail. The academic logo will face the Johnston Street/ Betrand Drive intersection.

The athletic logo will face the Bertand Drive/ Congress Street intersection. the bottom of the letters in "Cajuns" will be about 6" above the top of the hand rails.

If the weather holds they should be finished be the end of the week. I will post photos when we are finished.

Sweet! I live in Holden Heights behind Judice Inn and I've been seeing the progress every day... can't wait to see the final product! Looks so much better already! It was SO rusty it looked horrible before, big eyesore.

[2 ul 0105]

We are working on the lighting for the tower as well. This will be installed once the painting is completed. I can't give a time frame, I'll just say as soon as possible.

These are the two logos which will be painted on the tower. As Helmut said the Fleur de Lis will be raised above the hand rail but the lafayette will be installed below the hand rail.

[CajunAlum10]

As Helmut said the Fleur de Lis will be raised above the hand rail but the lafayette will be installed below the hand rail.

Sheer genius Lloyd!

[cajunhawk]

I don't have a problem with using the "at Lafayette". It makes sense. Hell, lets look at the University of Texas at Austin's academic website...they seem to have it everywhere except for the web address (www.utexas.edu).

All I know is...I type in www.louisiana.edu, it's not taking me to ULM's website. That would be www.ulm.edu.

[HelmutVII]

Sweet! I live in Holden Heights behind Judice Inn and I've been seeing the progress every day... can't wait to see the final product! Looks so much better already! It was SO rusty it looked horrible before, big eyesore.

Most of the red you saw was primer with a little bit of rust. We have about 5 to 7 working days left to finish the project but given the weather it won't be finished until mid January. We are getting about 2 or 3 good working days per week.

Inside was painted too, but it is finished.

[CajunAmos]

Most of the red you saw was primer with a little bit of rust. We have about 5 to 7 working days left to finish the project but given the weather it won't be finished until mid January. We are getting about 2 or 3 good working days per week.

Inside was painted too, but it is finished.

Confined space protocols?

[2 ul 0105]

I don't have a problem with using the "at Lafayette". It makes sense. Hell, lets look at the University of Texas at Austin's academic website...they seem to have it everywhere except for the web address (www.utexas.edu).

All I know is...I type in www.louisiana.edu, it's not taking me to ULM's website. That would be www.ulm.edu.

The Louisiana and the Lafayette are up on the Johnston side of the tower. I'll put it to you this way..... this is the best looking logo with lafayette in it that you have ever seen.

[HelmutVII]

Confined space protocols?

Yes, but it's hard to explain to the workers in my broken Spanish even though three of the five workers speak English. Fall protection is the number one priority for me. Most confined space accidents (as are most accidents) in water tower work are a result of a fall. (typically from a failed rigging or a broken swinging ginney) If you eliminate the fall, then the confined space problems pretty much take care of themselves. Falls usually result in death.

Breathing air is the next problem, especially during blasting, painting less so. In both cases breathing air is supplied through an air supplied respirator. Breathing air at other times is no problem because of the natural ventilation from the bottom of the tank to the roof hatches and vents. (it's a natural chimney).

Dangerous work no matter what though. It only takes a little lapse in judgement and you are in big trouble.

[ULGrad@HOU]

Bump
Article in todays Advertiser has a couple of Pics of how the tower looked before and now with the academic logo. It looks nice. The athletic logo is not yet finished. This is good for UL. We need more of this.

[RaginDave]

If you can't get rid of the &%^% (lafayette), then hide the &^%^, right?