The Tigue is a special place

[HelmutVII]

So we will have a building within a building. Would love to have someone tell me where they have ever seen construction like this. After they build the new clubhouse will the old clubhouse remain as some relic of the past inside the bowels of the stadium? I guess what I am saying, why hold on to this building at all. The coaches and players are in the Cox building now. Maybe, and just maybe the ones in charge will construct a new building knowing that the Cox has to come down. I will be going down there today to see the footprint of the new construction along the third base side. And maybe, if I can find someone to give me answers about that section and how it will look. I am not pushing for some explanation, just curious......Might see Rob. He will know.

The building inside the building becomes a room. All you have to do is walk over to cajun field and see the concession area as a building in a building. Or go to the Cajun dome and you will see the ticket offices as a separate building use in the structure. This is even more obvious now in that the dome is being totally renovated and when you go to the ticket office you don't see any evidence that the dome is being worked on.

Go to any high school football stadium and you will see rest rooms built under the stands. You could demolish the stands and have rest rooms or demolish the rest rooms and still have the stands.

Technically what we will have at Tigue Moore is what is called a "mixed use" structure. Nothing really unusual about it.

[HelmutVII]

Busting rebar and setting forms today. Should be placing concrete for foundation very soon.

[BeauCajun]

Busting rebar and setting forms today. Should be placing concrete for foundation very soon.

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

[wcd35]

Someone moved the Construction Cam. Much better view now

[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.