Campus Construction

[Cajunbander]

_ I saw some light towers placed near the McKinley street end of the parking garage last night on my walk. I figured they would be placing concrete for the Parking garage foundation early this morning. I woke up at a bout 3:00 A.M. this morning and heard a fairly steady stream of concrete trucks on University Ave. So I guess they did place some of the foundation this morning. Good thing as we are expecting rain this afternoon into tomorrow. _

My friend lives in the house directly across Taft from the field, and he says that they're out most nights doing something.

[HelmutVII]

An amazing day today. No work being done after 2" of rain yesterday.

An overview of work as of March 6, 2011



North end of Taft Street dorm showing second floor decking.




Middle section of Taft Street dorm with Denbo debris pile in background.



South end of Taft Street dorm almost ready for decking.



The size of the building is starting to show now. If you can imagine this amount of framing 3 more times you can get the idea. Kind of hard to show in photographs though.



Bancroft slab and foundation below is all that remains





Parking garage work site after 2" of rain on March 5, 2011. It will be a mess tomorrow when they continue working.




A portion of the foundation placed on Friday morning March 4, 2011

[HelmutVII]

Work being done on March 12, 2011

Clockwise from left. Second floor framing, Bancroft foundation demolition




Second floor framing of North end of Taft Street Dorm. Yellow rods at the top of the stud walls are for OSHA required railings needed when decking the third floor.



Middle section of Taft Street Dorm.



Second floor of South end of Taft Street Dorm getting decked.


Breaking up Denbo Foundation



Debris pile of Bancroft foundation, looks like they are removing everything down to about 4 or 5 feet below ground level. The round pieces of concrete are the tops of the piling for Bancroft. The materials in foreground are truss joists for the second floor ceiling of the Taft Street Dorm.

[HelmutVII]

Parking garage work on March 12, 2011

Rod busting to the right, foundation excavation in the middle and concrete placement to the left.



Rod Busting for the Parking garage foundation



Excavation for the Parking garage foundation



Placing concrete for the Parking garage foundation

[Cajunbander]

I was taking pictures of the site yesterday as well. I ran into one of the crew at the top of the stairs and he was saying they've been coming in and taking aerial shots of the site on a regular basis. I didn't think to ask him if they were or would be posting them somewhere online. It'd be cool to see.

[Turbine]

Thanks for all the updates.

Very fun to see.
igeaux.mobi

[DaddyCajun]

_ These guys can work.

Softball got the shaft . . . the other one _

The First Softball crew issued the Shaft .........the crew they have now has been doing great!!!

[HelmutVII]

Overview of work as of March 19, 2011 More framing on Taft Street Dorm, final debris removal of Denbo and site prep for Tulane Ave Dorm (8912)




North end of Taft Dorm, 3rd floor decking should start soon.



Middle section of Taft Street Dorm



South End of Taft Street Dorm



D. H. Griffin Demolition equipment running out of things to do.



Last pile of debris from Denbo demolition



Wind rowing soil to dry it out. Starting to do site prep on the north end of Tulane Ave. Dorm.

[HelmutVII]

Parking garage work as of March 19, 2011

Major foundation work is just about complete,




First level parking pad. Stacks of insulated pipe are for chilled water for AC to credit union (I guess).



New Credit Union location



Layout lines for foundation walls in Parking garage.

[Zeebart21]

That is awesome progress. Can we maybe send just 2 of those guys to finish the softball field??

Z