With Apologies, I’m Back!!!!!

My apologies. I am acutely aware that I have been AWOL for some time. Even the chronicler had to take time off for some remodeling at Casa de Park, which took much longer than planned. Although I have been derelict in updating the site, I have spent considerable time at the construction site taking photos and videos. Now, I must pay the price of truancy by selecting, editing and posting photos and videos of the activity on the site. Although the construction crew has been roasting in the cooker (known as the construction pit) this summer: great progress has been made as the foundation walls near completion. Many of you, who are around the campus on a regular basis, have noticed a giant crane on site. The crane, a LIEBHERR LR 1300, arrived on site in mid-August for the purpose of lowering the steel isolator bases (AKA Steel Hashtags) on their pads along with other seismic devices for structural sway and vibration control. A few weeks prior to the cranes’ arrival, the iron workers arrived on site to prepare the base pads for the steel hashtags. This crane, which I understand is a “toy” compared to the two LIEBHERR 1750 cranes, which will arrive on site around the first of December. In the meantime, you crane aficionados will have to be happy with the LR 1300 and the photos and videos of the long-necked piece of crawling steel, which will be posted on this site. On Wednesday, the LR 1300 was relocated to the south side of the pit where it will lower the remaining steel hashtags and seismic devices. STAY TUNED and ENJOY!

Dennis E. Park, MA

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 🔨

← Hand Tools Used In The Project

THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW: The LLU Campus Transformation Project Progression in photos →

2 Comments

Dennis Schall
I see the wall spraying is all most finished. I assume almost all of the 125 bases and their isolators are almost wielded to their bases and everything with the isolator bases are in place. I see that one isolator base is missing.

Questions: do you know when: the final isolator will be delivered and also what the new scaffolding that was deliverd and installed is being used for.
- Dennis E. Park, MA
  
  Sorry, I missed your questions of 9/23!
  
  The foundation walls (wall spraying) is complete. There are 126 isolator bases. 125 have been installed. the last one to be installed, in the northeast corner, is double the size of the the other isolator bases. The concrete foundation in this area is six feet thick where the rest of the foundation is four feet thick. The reason for this has to do with the buildings bearing weight on that corner.
  
  For the the most part, all of the isolators have been attached to the bases. Presently, the grout is being pumped between the isolators and the base. The reason for the grouting is to provide an even bearing plane between the isolator and the base. I will be featuring the grouting in a separate post. Also the iron workers are finishing the shims and bolting down the corners of each base.
  I have not received a date as to when the final base and isolator will be delivered.
  
  The scaffolding is to shore up the deck for the cap slab which will be poured around the perimeter of the pit. This will also be featured in a separate post.
  
  dEp