How Do They Do That? Install a Missing Glass Window on the Children’s Hospital
Many of you may have noticed that there were three (3) missing (now there is one) windows on the east tower of the Children’s Hospital. The featured image illustrates where the windows were located on the tower. These windows were broken either in transit or during installation. For some time, I have been asked when and how the windows will be replaced. We now have the answer to both questions. Yesterday on May 29, 2019, window number three was installed and today window number 2 was inserted into place.
Window Number 1
This image, courtesy of Nick from Tower Glass, was taken in the morning of June 3, 2019, The men took the replacement glass up in the cage approximately 130=feet. It took about 45- minutes to install while the platform shook due to the length of its extension,.It will be interesting to see how window No. 1 will be installed.
Window Number 2
A View With a Long Lens
Around 8:15 in the morning, I noticed some snorkel crane activity around the eastern side of the podium. The men on the snorkel crane platform to the right were installing bird screen over the louvers on the fourth floor. To the left, a JLG Boom Lift was moving higher toward the Children’s Hospital tower. Could it be that the men in the platform cage would extend the telescopic lift up to the eighth floor?
In the early morning low clouds, a JLG Boom Lift slowly extends its telescopic arm toward the eighth-floor window frame.A closeup of the platform revealed that the replacement window was in the cage along with the two men. Upon closer inspection we see a coworker standing inside the frame in the tower waiting to assist in setting the windowStanding on a small platform on top of a shaky telescopic boom lift some 80 – feet above grade, the two window installers with the help of their buddy standing inside the building reach the bottom of the window frame. In image No. 1, the installers begin to position the glass panel. Image No. 2: The installers carefully move the panel toward the opening. The glass panel nearly closes the gap in image No. 3. The process of seating and sealing the glass panel, No. (4). The two-man crew reached the site where they would begin the install around 8:20 AM and was completed around 8:32 AM. The platform touched grade at 8:59 AM.With the window properly seated and sealed, the two laborers prepare to lower the boom lift.A good image of the Children’s Hospital tower from the yard. Only one window remains (upper left at the top of the tower) to be installed.
Window Number 3
As I exited my truck around 9:30 AM, on May 30, 2019, I observed a Telescopic Boom Lift rising above the safety fence on Anderson Street. I wondered if the workers on the platform were going to install a window. Not seeing any evidence of them doing so, I concluded they were going to seal the seam between the the glass panels and the GFRC.When I returned to the east side of the yard, the glass had been installed and was being inspected by the by the two installers.The three broken window panels have now been installed.
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 🔨
