The Week of June 10, 2019 — Fighting the Heat With Early Morning Hours; Windows Wrap Around the 15th Floor; Facia Above the Terrace; and Other Projects
The featured image this week is of the Loma Linda University Health towers as viewed from the I-10/I-215 south. When I snapped this photo, while stopped in traffic on the flyover, I had no idea that there was a Life-Flight helicopter approaching the north helipad.
The week did not start off well as a heat wave unleashed its hellish furry on Southern California and the west from the Mexican border to the Canadian border. This unwelcome change in temperature is caused by a high-pressure ridge, which will hang around for most of the week.
Before the steel, when the project was just a large pit in the ground, such temperatures were unbearable as there was no place to hide other than in the shadows cast on the soil and later on the concrete, which radiated the heat from side to side and up the foundation walls.
The Domestic Water Tanks Undergo Pressure Tests
The Schuman Pavilion Elevator Pit, The Excavation Continues
Back at the Tunnel Trench
The Backup Generator Site, an Update
The 15th Floor Windows Take a Turn Around the Northwest Corner of the West Wing
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 🔨