How do They do That? Lift Huge HVAC Ducting to the Upper Floors.
As I have made my rounds on different levels on the podium and both hospital towers, I have wondered how the BULKY HVAC sheetmetal ducting (the system through which heat, ventilation, and air conditioning flows) — some already installed, and others lying on the concrete in disorganized queues waiting attention and installation — were hoisted up to the various floors. The whole fourth level (in the podium) is the mechanical equipment floor where, as one laborer said, “this is the level where the really BIG equipment lives.” For sometime, I thought that the sheetmetal ducting were put together on each floor by a crew who worked the night shift? Today (December 14, 2018), the conundrum was solved. Luckily, I had the opportunity to witness and video the unusual operation.
This morning, I noticed a rather large object being hoisted by a crane’s boom toward the Children’s Hospital tower. Switching to another webcam to get a better view of the large object, whatever it was, was lost in the background. In the afternoon, I began making my rounds and for whatever reason, began my trek on the south side — something I rarely do. As I rounded the southeast corner, there it was: the crane, and a cage on which a HUGE sheet metal duct was being loaded. Some of the sheetmetal crew are in the back of the stake bed truck pushing the ducting onto the carrying cage. An example of the bulky size of a HVAC duct.
The Video
A video which portrays how HVAC ducting is transported to the upper levels of a high rise building that is under construction.
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 🔨
