The Week of November 5, 2018 — Reaching Higher and Hanging More GFRC

How many days ago… 896 days
How many weeks ago… 128 weeks
How many months ago… 29 months
How many hours ago… 21504 hours
How many minutes ago… 1290240 minutes
How many seconds ago… 77414400 seconds ∗  ∗∗

∗ Calculated from groundbreaking May 22, 2016, to November 4, 2018
∗∗ Source: <howlongagogo.com>

Week 128

What will this week bring? How will the elevation of the building change? How many construction workers are on site? How many subcontractor specialties are currently on site?  How many floors of Parking Structure P4 do the labors occupy? What will be the encore? The answer to these question and more will be answered during this weeks blog. 🔨

This weeks schedule calls for the ironworkers to finish hanging the infill beams on the 14th floor after which they will finish scattering the corrugated metal decking. The lift company will extend the aerial lift tower another two levels to accommodate the 13th and 14th-floor crew. Beginning Monday night, November 5, 2015, the subcontractor will start the final phase of installing the GFRC curtain wall on the north podium side. It is anticipated, by the end of the week, the GFRC will cover the north side of the podium. Once the north side podium is completed, the subcontractor will commence hanging the GFRC around the northeast side of the podium. The interior buildout will continue unabated. However, the big reveal of the week will be when the ironworkers set the first of the last columns of the Adult Hospital tower. 🔨

This weeks blog will introduce what I call a cross-section of the Adult Tower floor by floor. For the last few months, those of you outside of the security fence have watched as the building towers for the Children’s Hospital, and Adult Hospital have increased in height floor by floor. In this feature, I will provide at least one photo and an introductory description of some of the dedicated services for each of the levels. Next week, I hope to feature the Children’s Hospital and the elevator (core) tower positioned between the two hospitals. 🔨

Boom up to hoist the aerial lift extension to the top of the lattice track. At grade, the crew has gathered in the shadow of the steel in preparation for the big lift. Unbeknownst to me at the time, a malfunction in the crane had occurred, and the crew was waiting for a service truck. 🔨

Lady luck was with me tonight. I was able to get this doubleheader shot of two elements being hung simultaneously. In the upper left, a crane is hanging the aerial lift extension, which will allow the lifts to access the 13th and 14th floors. This process was to begin earlier in the evening but was delayed due to a malfunction with the crane. The truck hauling the three GFRC  panels was late in arriving. Thus, both delays allowed for a perfectly timed shot. 🔨

The crane is slowly hoisting the two-plus story extension to the top of the lattice track. 🔨

The lift installation crew aligns the extension with the lattice track. Closer… Closer. 🔨

November 6, 2018: This 6:10 AM screenshot reveals that the lift extension stands tall above the 14th floor. 🔨

Hanging GFRC on the Podium’s North Side

Beginning Monday night, November 5, 2018, the GFRC subcontractor will commence hanging more two-story panels on the north side of the podium. 🔨

East elevation with the GFRC installed on the northeast corner as viewed from Anderson Street. 🔨

The Adult Tower

Proposed Services by Floor 

An artist rendering of the northeast elevation of the two hospitals as viewed from Anderson Street. 🔨

Beginning to Set the Final Floor Columns on the West End of the Adult Hospital Tower

When I Set down at my computer this morning (11.6.18 at 6:10 AM), I was thrilled to see that the ironworkers had not set any of the final floor columns on the west half of the Adult Hospital tower. 🔨

Approximately one minute after snapping the previous photo at 6:10 AM a column rose above the northeast side of the building. This photo is a composite of five images stacked, which shows the movement of the column as it arched—right to left— over the building to where it was set and bolted to its base at 6: 19 AM. The boom in the center (sans a column) is on its return for another column. 🔨

At 6:52 AM, the second column was set. This image is also a composite, which again illustrates the wide arch from the east to the west to its position on the southwest corner of the Adult  Hospital tower. The boom to the right has circled back to pick up the third column. 🔨

 An 8:14 AM image, which depicts the two rows of columns that are making their way to the core of the building. 🔨

Finally, the clouds burned off, blue skies enveloped the region, and the steel complex basks in the November sun. 🔨

The arrows indicate column support for the helipad, which is positioned on top of the 15th floor. The image of the artist rendering (inset) illustrates the approximate positioning of the helipad as viewed from the north. 🔨

The Transition column is being lowered toward the core section of the building. This transition column(s) will connect the core tower to the adult hospital. The apex of the Adult Hospital tower is comprised of two levels. The west roofline, which will stand at 16 stories with the helipad constructed above. The east roof line will stand at seventeen stories. The 16th floor will include the Executive Conference Room and the Terrace. The connecting core of the buildings is the elevator tower, the tallest of both hospital towers. 🔨

An artist rendering of the top floors of the Adult Hospital as viewed from the north. To the left is the Terrace. To the right of the Terrace (center) is the Executive Conference Room. At the far right is the helipad. 🔨

A View From the 14th Floor and Above

In the lower right quadrant is the intersection of Anderson Street (running north to south) and Prospect Avenue (which flows east to west). Driving east on Anderson Street, turn left at the intersection of Anderson Street and Prospect Avenue and just a few tenths of a mile where Anderson street bends to the left continue uphill to the crest of the hill to the spot where in 1905 a small sectarian medical college began. 🔨

Prospect Avenue between Anderson and Benton Streets should be dubbed Medical Center Drive for about one mile down the road is the main entrance to the  Jerry L. Pettis Memorial VA Medical Center.  After snapping these photos, I turned a 180 and walked out of the aerial lift to the view in the images below.🔨

A southwest view from the 14th floor. The columns reaching to the 17th floor are the last of the columns that reach the apex of the Adult Hospital tower. 🔨

A northwest view of the campus from the 14th floor. Note the right lower quadrant of the image where the ironworkers have not yet covered the infill beams with the corrugated metal decking. 🔨

The steel frame of the Adult Hospital tower rising now 14 some stories above grade dwarfs the iconic cloverleaf Medical Center to the west, and the P4 parking structure to the south. 🔨

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