The Building of Russo Park at Louisiana

[CajunEXPRESS]

Yes, more symmetrical, I noticed that this morning when I checked things out.

[HelmutVII]

Precast concrete walls are going up at Southside High. Most of the Lemoine subs should be heading to the Tigue.

Could be differnt subs. Are doing precast panels or tilt up at the school?

[CajunAmos]

Could be differnt subs. Are doing precast panels or tilt up at the school?

Looking at the forms they are placing it seems to encompass a large area with plumbing/electrical risers but seems to have a large amounts of loose dirt. Is this going to be covered over or is there additional work needed before the pour can happen? Or is the loose dirt in the view not in the area of the pour?

[HelmutVII]

Looking at the forms they are placing it seems to encompass a large area with plumbing/electrical risers but seems to have a large amounts of loose dirt. Is this going to be covered over or is there additional work needed before the pour can happen? Or is the loose dirt in the view not in the area of the pour?

They are forming up and placing rebar for footings. Once the concrete for the footings is placed then I suspect they will come back and place a slab over the areas between the footings. The footing is what the building is place upon while the slab is basically a floor. This is very common construction technique in commercial construction.

I would hope that they would move the camera a little further away because, once they start erection the structure the only thing we will see is the wall that is going to be atop the footing immediately in front of the camera.

[CajunAmos]

They are forming up and placing rebar for footings. Once the concrete for the footings is placed then I suspect they will come back and place a slab over the areas between the footings. The footing is what the building is place upon while the slab is basically a floor. This is very common construction technique in commercial construction.

I would hope that they would move the camera a little further away because, once they start erection the structure the only thing we will see is the wall that is going to be atop the footing immediately in front of the camera.

So all the current forming is for footings? I just thought all the non-packed dirt looked odd in between all the areas awaiting a concrete pour. I'm also curious about how deep the footings might be for a structure of this size. From the view it looks like about 3'.

[HelmutVII]

So all the current forming is for footings? I just thought all the non-packed dirt looked odd in between all the areas awaiting a concrete pour. I'm also curious about how deep the footings might be for a structure of this size. From the view it looks like about 3'.

The footings connect pile caps and are used to transfer loads to the deep foundation. I THINK they placed auger cast piles that were about 40 or 50 feet deep.

[Boomer]

The footings connect pile caps and are used to transfer loads to the deep foundation. I THINK they placed auger cast piles that were about 40 or 50 feet deep.

---Helmut---probably the guy with the least knowledge of this asks---Does the mid stadium seem smaller than thought to be at this time???

[weareLOUISIANA]

I have actually been impressed with the amount of workers lately and how much progress theyve made the past two weeks.

[Frenchie35]

They are forming up and placing rebar for footings. Once the concrete for the footings is placed then I suspect they will come back and place a slab over the areas between the footings. The footing is what the building is place upon while the slab is basically a floor. This is very common construction technique in commercial construction.

I would hope that they would move the camera a little further away because, once they start erection the structure the only thing we will see is the wall that is going to be atop the footing immediately in front of the camera.

The camera could have been placed on one of the outfield lights and have a pan right to left and focus in and out like they had for the APC.....

[CajunAmos]

The footings connect pile caps and are used to transfer loads to the deep foundation. I THINK they placed auger cast piles that were about 40 or 50 feet deep.

So piles would have been driven earlier and the existing concrete pour will secure the new footings to the existing piles? Would this have been from the original stadium as I haven't seen any machines in any of the photos recently to indicate this was done once the old stadium structure was removed?

[HelmutVII]

So piles would have been driven earlier and the existing concrete pour will secure the new footings to the existing piles? Would this have been from the original stadium as I haven't seen any machines in any of the photos recently to indicate this was done once the old stadium structure was removed?

I saw some spiral tied rebar cages that were about 40 feet long stored on site. That is typically reinforcing for a drilled concrete shaft. I am assuming that is what they were for. I have no inside information on this though.

[HelmutVII]

---Helmut---probably the guy with the least knowledge of this asks---Does the mid stadium seem smaller than thought to be at this time???

The lens on the camera is a wide angle lens. What we are seeing is distorted.