The Week of April 23, 2018–Going Up: Floors Three Through Five; Plus More Structural Steel for Section Four Construction Site, Weekly Construction Blog
Featured Image, How do They do That? How do They do That? Cutting Steel In One Easy Lesson On the west side of the building I found Mark, an Ironworker, standing at a makeshift work bench using a portable track-guided oxy-fuel cutting machine... Read More
Construction Site, Helicopters At the Right Place At the Right Time: A CHLA Air Transport Lands on the LLUCH Helipad After photographing the third floor decking and steel for the three floors that had been erected this week, Gordon, the lift operator took me back... Read More
Down in the Pit, Inside the Building Is My Name Still Written There? In August of 2017, employees of the Children’s Hospital and Medical Center were given the opportunity to sign their names on a base isolator. That... Read More
Behind the Scene A Look Inside the Cab of a Liebherr LR 1750 Crawler Crane During a few down times of the taller of the two cranes, a 850-ton Liebherr LR 1750 crawler crane, located on the north side of the... Read More
Construction Site, Construction Techniques, Construction Update Vision 2020, Current Updates, Inside the Building, Weekly Construction Blog The Week of April 15, 2018–Three Stages of Construction Progress The week of April 15 (the work week began on Sunday), turned out to be a momentous week! The week produced three stages of weather:... Read More
How do They do That? The Man Lift — Another in The Series of “How Do They Do That?” Have you every wondered how the construction crew and the equipment get the various floor while the building is still in its steel skeleton stage.... Read More
Campus History, Construction Site, Construction Techniques, Construction Update Vision 2020, Current Updates, Weekly Construction Blog The Week of April 09, 2018 — The Disappearing Pit and a Little More of This N That This is a week where it appears the mat floor, yes, the concrete floor that we have traversed north and south, east and west, these... Read More
Construction Site, Construction Techniques, Construction Update Vision 2020, Current Updates, Down in the Pit, Helicopters, Weekly Construction Blog The Week of April 2, 2018 — Section Three and a Potpourri of This N That For the Week On April 2, I was told that a significant portion of the ground floor (level one) had been turned over to McCarthy, which meant that... Read More