Parking Garage Construction

[CajunEXPRESS]

Boomer all I see is your covering the back of T-Jo, and often over estimating values of certain projects. Seems like you are an apologist for UL even when the facts say they are F(*KING UP.

Three or more major F-UPS

1: Baseball FUP. Letting Robe be humiliated.

2: NOT being ready for conference shuffle, claiming to have a pinky promise, not having a master plan, not manning up.

3: NOLA Bowl vs looking at options.

4: ---------------- no not hyphens to damned many F-UPS and never taking responsibility, always blaming stupid, fans believing something because U-LL never is transparent. So it is our fault for being confused.

[Boomer]

Boomer all I see is your covering the back of T-Jo, and often over estimating values of certain projects. Seems like you are an apologist for UL even when the facts say they are F(*KING UP.

Three or more major F-UPS

1: Baseball FUP. Letting Robe be humiliated.

2: NOT being ready for conference shuffle, claiming to have a pinky promise, not having a master plan, not manning up.

3: NOLA Bowl vs looking at options.

4: ---------------- no not hyphens to damned many F-UPS and never taking responsibility, always blaming stupid, fans believing something because U-LL never is transparent. So it is our fault for being confused.

#1----Totally agree with you and never once have i defended that screw up and in fact bragged to my buddies about our great new bball stadium-----#2--I warned for years about our upcoming demise over conference expansion and was told by T-joe and many on this board, and in fact ridiculed, about Tech getting in ahead of us---#3-I thought the fact of going anywhere else but NO was an absolute asinine consideration. We listened to those SOBs that screwed us some years back out of their bowl but were kind and told them we could not wait for a late offer and get LTURed---#4--I haven't seen what you are referring to about the stupid fans although I thought I had read all available info---but again nobody could have been more disappointed than me---I just choose to find out the reasons and make my judgements later!!! Again I don't know who you are but you sure seem ____ed and angry!!! On the projects I will state that I am happy as hell over what has happened to our school--just trying to remember and project----Cleaned the whole campus up, tore down and rebuilt the entire front of campus, St Mary St, Bikeway, Built parking garages, new parking garages, trade for hopefully the Lourdes property, Fletcher Hall, Boys Dorms in the back, Destroying of the 2 old buildings, Burke Hall, the UNION, IPF, New turf in stadium, new turf in the IPF, Cajun dome A/V work, New Cajun Dome remodeling ($15K), Phase I, PhaseII, PHaseIII----The remaining master plan to the Campus with bike storage areas, the future building of a UL area around the stadium parking lot with stores and living areas---I am sure that there are more but my over estimates are what they are --a mistake---but WTF is up with all the overestimating crap for a cover up---Don't know who you are but again you are way off in your assessments of my positions on things that you have posted about me!!!

[Turbine]

Only two times in history has construction been more active at UL.

You would have to go back to the 40's or when UL was established in 1898 to top now.

The late 60's early 70's come in 4th.

Plus those other years only top now if you do percentage of buildings involved.

[leeman]

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

Wow, if that's true about the capacity, the garage is huge. I think LGMC's new parking garage will hold 230 or so vehicles

[DaddyCajun]

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

Girard Park is only like 15 Acres, how small of an Athletic complex would that be?

[DaddyCajun]

Could put one hell of a parking garage there though! Lets just keep it a park!

[HelmutVII]

Wow, if that's true about the capacity, the garage is huge. I think LGMC's new parking garage will hold 230 or so vehicles

It will be a little bit bigger than Olivier Parking tower. It holds a little over 900 cars if I remember correctly.

[HelmutVII]

They started placing auger cast piles this past week. This is a photo of the rig set up to do a battered (or tilted) pile. Battered piles are used to resist lateral loads. It looks like a ten degree batter.



This is a photo of a trench they excavated to run electric conduit. This is typical when excavating in a developed area. There are three phone cables and the rectangular shape in the middle of the photo is concrete that encases electric or telephone cables. They encase electric cables in concrete dyed red. This is used as a warning to anybody excavation in the future to let them know there are electric cables in the concrete. It protects the cables and it prevents any future excavators from getting killed.

[HelmutVII]

They have finished installing the auger cast piles and are well on their way with the foundation. Pretty soon we will be seeing precast concrete sections like the ones that were used for Olivier Parking garage. It will be easier to see progress once this gets started as up until now everything has been underground.

This is the foundation work as seen from the sidewalk between Oliver Hall and Rougeau Hall

[HelmutVII]

Getting ready for some heavy lifting. This crane will be used to lift and position modular precast and pretensioned concrete components.



Elevator pit on the north west corner. Fletcher Hall is to the rear.



Steel frame for some class rooms and engineering labs (I think). This is along the Lewis street end of the building.




Foundation just about ready to accept precast concrete modules.




A view from the top of Olivier Parking Tower.



A conceptual image of what the parking garage will look like. This is what they project it to look like from McNaspy field.