Campus Construction

[HelmutVII]

_ Lemoine is putting together a good plan and executing it well _

Yes they are. They also have good subs. I noticed last week that they had about 30% to 40% of the area for Dorm No. 1 covered with visqueen so it would not get too wet during the rains. If a path is muddy, they use some of the broken concrete from Bancroft to make a road. The concrete pumper truck was on a pad of broken concrete from Bancroft. If they can do something to make things progress they will do it.

This is polar opposite to the contractor building the new softball complex. That guy is a joke!!! Being happy with that contractor would be the same thing as being happy with the caterer delivering food for your daughters wedding one month late, and still having to pay for it.

[Zeebart21]

_ Yes they are. They also have good subs. I noticed last week that they had about 30% to 40% of the area for Dorm No. 1 covered with visqueen so it would not get too wet during the rains. If a path is muddy, they use some of the broken concrete from Bancroft to make a road. The concrete pumper truck was on a pad of broken concrete from Bancroft. If they can do something to make things progress they will do it.

This is polar opposite to the contractor building the new softball complex. That guy is a joke!!! Being happy with that contractor would be the same thing as being happy with the caterer delivering food for your daughters wedding one month late, and still having to pay for it. _

[Cajunbander]

I dunno about working at night. There's a lot of residential around the site. I know that a lot of lighting got taken out when they demo'ed the Credit Union. I'm around Anglle a lot, between band (not really anymore) and my fraternity (we meet in Angelle Hall on Sunday nights). There are ALWAYS students around Angelle Hall. Everyone in the music dept has card access to the building 24/7, so there's always students practicing and I have a bunch of friends who, since the internet in the dorms suck, go to Angelle to get online. Last week, with no lights back there, it was extremely dark. I noticed earlier that they had lights installed on the corner of Angelle. The lights might simply be for safety reasons. (Also, the cameras they installed around the building might be worthless without lighting.)

Also, while getting sources for a section on UL's Wikipedia entry for the campus expansions, I found a webcam set up overlooking the work site. It's on UL's housing website:

http://housing.louisiana.edu/residence/taft-hall.shtml

[HelmutVII]

_ I dunno about working at night. There's a lot of residential around the site. I know that a lot of lighting got taken out when they demo'ed the Credit Union.

Also, while getting sources for a section on UL's Wikipedia entry for the campus expansions, I found a webcam set up overlooking the work site. It's on UL's housing website:

http://housing.louisiana.edu/residence/taft-hall.shtml _

Lack of lighting is why they brought in some light towers.

I noticed the camera too, I figured they would have a web cam.

[Cajunbander]

I betcha one could get a really good deal on these "slightly" used mattresses!

[BrockMeaux]

_ I betcha one could get a really good deal on these "slightly" used mattresses!

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We call them "gently used" in the mattress game.

[HelmutVII]

The foundation crew for the parking garage started to move equipment in today. Looks like they will use Berkel pressure grouted piles. It ought to be interesting to see.

[Cajunbander]

I don't know about Berkel ground piles or anything like that, all I know is that they moved in a big ole crane this afternoon. I's assume they're about to start driving some foundation piles in.

[HelmutVII]

Lots and lots of work today, February 6, 2011. They had the light towers on last night and were working on Dorm No. 1 foundation.

Clock wise from left, Auger for auger cast piles, Foundation pad for Dorm No. 1 almost ready for rebar, Dust suppressor, Bancroft demolition, more plumbing and foundation work for dorm no. 1, and in the middle on the bottom, carpenters preparing form work.




Dust suppressor, If it's not raining they use this to help with the dust, Yesterday there was a dust cloud over University Ave almost all afternoon.



Rebar recycling, almost all the metal, concrete and brick will be recycled. This is where much of the profit is in demolition.



BFDBH at work, if they had more room to work, these two buildings would have been demolished in a little over a week. Once they get Bancroft down then they will have much more room to work.




BFDBH getting ready to take another row of columns down.



BFDBH finished taking out columns, It took about 10 minutes from the previous photo. Right after I took this photo he pulled the columns out below.



Test pile for the Auger Cast piling for the Parking garage.

[HelmutVII]

More photos from Feb 6, 2011

Dorm No. 1 foundation pad almost ready for rebar. They might be ready to place concrete before the end of the week.



Dorm No 1 elevator pit.




A project I worked on last summer. The home team (TCH) will be on the left side and visitors will be looking into the sun on the right side. This is the new Google Earth imagery that is available if you update.