An East Side (Anderson Street) View As of June 22, 2018

The steel skeleton on the east side (the Anderson Street side) is rapidly approaching the prescribed construction height of the podium. The featured photo for this blog illustrates where the project stands as of June 22, 2018. 🔨

Taking the featured photo and adding the yellow lines where the remaining steel will be set provides one with an approximate profile for the east side of the podium. In the picture above the position of the Children’s Hospital and Adult Hospital towers are now defined. In the center numbers, one (1) and two (2) indicate where the skylights will be on either side of the opaque central roof. This area is the north/south hallway between the two hospitals. Number three is the approximate location where the elevator and mechanical tower will rise above the podium. The tower will also connect the two hospitals. It is my understanding that once all the podium steel has been set and the decking placed, the ironworkers will begin, floor by floor, setting steel for the two towers. In the foreground, Richard a surveyor checks vertical plum of the steel skeleton. 🔨

Below the yellow line on this model is the podium from which the towers will rise. As the steel begins its floor by floor journey to the top of the structures, it will be easier for one to visualize the new Inland Empire icon. The yellow Xs are the sections where the steel beams and girders are yet to be set. Number one (1) is the hallway that connects the two hospitals. Number two (2) is the step outs and part of the podium’s roof. Hopefully, by years end, the steel skeletons (above the yellow line in the shaded area) for the two towers will be completed. When that change comes, the tower of the Adult Hospital will not only represent a tower of healing, but the landmark will radiate the motto of the university– To Make Man Whole: physically, mentally, and spiritually! 🔨

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 🔨

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3 Comments

Dennis Schall
Since what you have told me before the width of each tower is approximately 60 , to give us some perspective, how wide is one of the towers from the cloverleaf hospital?
- Dennis E. Park, MA
  
  I think it is about the same. I am double checking. Will get back to you,
  - Dennis E. Park, MA
    
    I talked with someone in the know today, and he is of the opinion, even though he hasn’t measured the towers, that the new hospital towers per OSHPOD has to at least be the same or larger than the cloverleaf towers.