The Week of August 24, 2020 — Outside Perimeter Excavation and Site Work, and Interior Buildout and Finish Work
The other day, someone asked if there were signs inside the building that the project was nearing completion. I began the answer by explaining that on many floors, the buildout was completed or nearly completed. Various rooms were looking like the designated rooms they were designed to be. Not entirely satisfied with how I started out answering his question, he interrupted and asked the question another way. “Are they getting the light switches installed and wall plates placed? You know all those little things that signal that the building is nearing completion.” He had moved on from the big stuff: heavy equipment, big iron, large windows, tall buildings, and was ready for some real signs of completion. Well, my friend, the featured image(s) for this blog, illustrates some of the little things that the project is nearing completion. I won’t bother to identify each image. Instead, I’ll let you imagine the significance of each.
A semi truck rolled in with a load of equipment and materials. Trucks such as this have become more frequent in recent weeks. Facing South: The view of the upper drive above the east parking lot. Compaction and grading is in progress where the asphalt ends and around the Anderson Street and Barton Road bend where the drive will turn west where there will be an exit at the left and emergency room parking to the right.Work continues on the amphitheater: rebar and forming.At the Anderson Street and Barton Road Curve one can see a clear delineation of the bend in the road, the island between the road and the adult emergency room drop-off and parking lot. The Adult ER is at the east side and the pediatric ER is on the west side of the building.A nice view of the frontage road that parallels Barton Road.
After graduate school Dennis accepted a position at Loma Linda University. He worked there for 42 years in the areas of administration and financial management, also teaching accounting and management to dietetic students at the School of Public Health. Through the years Dennis has chronicled the growth of the campus, including the construction of the Drayson Center and the Centennial Complex and the razing of Gentry Gym. He is the author of "The Mound City Chronicles: A Pictorial History of Loma Linda University, A Health Sciences Institution 1905 - 2005." dEp 09.30.2016 🔨
