The Week of June 17, 2019 — “We’re Done Flying Windows”, and a Week of Transition
Today as I turned the southwest corner of the building, I noticed several tower glass installers (aka glazers) standing around their “shack.” The time was about 1:45 PM, which is the usual time the swing shift began their stretching exercises. As soon as I asked one of the glazers if they were working the swing shift, I realized they stopped the swing shift a couple of weeks earlier. The young man looked at me and said: “No sir, we are done flying glass.”
As I walked on by, his statement hit me like a ton of bricks. The crew was done hanging the windows. There job was done. With the exception of a skeleton crew, the crane would no longer be needed to hoist the windows into the air. As I tuned to take a look at the young men standing in front of the shack. They were shaking hands, giving high fives, and laughing. I wanted to lift my camera and take one last photo of the guys who welcomed me into their world of hanging glass. Somehow, I didn’t have the heart to lift the camera and intrude on their celebratory moment.
A few yards to the north, Carpenters were working around the tench where the tunnel would be constructed. There I would take a few photos for the record. After making my way up the north side of the trench, I turned around and saw the glazers still chewing the fat. This time, I lifted my camera and pushed the shutter button. In the foreground were the carpenters working around the trench, and in the background were the glazers.
Construction Projects in and Around the Yard
The West Side Tunnel
The glazers (inset) and the carpenters in the foreground.Hanging mesh under the beams in preparation for shoring the sides with shotcrete before backfilling the wall. The next day, the the mesh was being sprayed with shotcrete.After the shotcrete is sprayed onto the mesh a concrete a laborer begins to trowel and smoth the surfaceThe shotcrete on the south side is curing.A view of the north wall and the drying shotcrete. About a hundreds yards away is the Schuman Pavilion Pedestrian Tower Site where is continuing in the pit.Subgrade where the excavator will be positioned to dig under the pipesThe small excavator will be lowered into the tunnel trench where it will begin to excavate dirt from under the pipes.Associated with the tunnel: Just south of the tunnel construction site next to the security fence at Barton Road a mockup of the concrete tunnel reinforcement s being constructed. A nice view of the tunnel site from the second floor.
Schuman Pavilion Pedestrian Bridge
Just around the corner from where the tunnel trench lies, a pedestrian bridge piling (inset) was set deep in the ground. Even before the crane is dismantled and trucked off the site, dirt from the core drill was dumped in the area north of the crane and spread around. No doubt the dirt will be used for fill when construction begins on the Galeria.
A Few Images of the Emergency Department
Assistant Job Superintendent, Jack, discusses a matter with two of the tradesmen. I inquired as to why there was a locked door, and was told that all electrical rooms that are energized must have locked doors. On the southwest corner of the ER Department is the ER Pediatric Lobby/Waiting Room. To the right Exam (Triage) Rooms and a Nurse’s First Look Room.Somewhere between the Pediatric ER Lobby/Waiting Room and the Adult ER Lobby/Waiting Room are approximately six Trauma/Cardiac rooms where critical patients in a bed or on a gurney can be wheeled right up to the back (head) wall where all of the essential hookups/connectors (such as oxygen, medivac, vacuum, medical air. electrical, etc) required in designated trauma exam rooms are in place. Currently, two of the rooms have the panels installed. Center left is the back of a connection panel were test gauges are reading the PSI for the pipes that connect to the headwall panel. The four gauges reading the test pressures for oxygen, Nitrous oxide, medical vacuum, and medical air. Down the hallway, we came to what will be the Adult ER lobby/waiting room, which is located on the southeast corner of the Emergency Department.
A Look at the Suspended Scaffold Hanging From the Side of the Tower
Suspended from a suspension scaffold 12-stories above grade. Inset: a closeup of the scaffold and the men working. To the right of the tower, the crane lifts styrofoam up to the roof of the tower where it will be used to weather seal the roof. A closer look at the suspended platform. Look closely at the class panels to the right. One can see the stairs as they make their way up the floors.
Our View as we See it From Below
Looking up at the scaffold from grade, we see the bottom of the platform and the equipment and supplies they are using to seal between the GFRC panels.
Their View as They See it Captured From Above
Looking down rom the roof (17th floor) of the Adult Tower, I was able to capture the scaffold suspended from the building and the view the workers have from the platform.
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 🔨
