The Week of August 19, 2019 — The Steel Beams for the Schuman Pavilion Bridge were Scheduled to be Installed
The featured photo for this week is of the Schuman Pavilion Pedestrian bridge site: The larger view image as seen from grade while the inset photo is an overhead view of the location.
I learned that toward the end of the week a crew of approximately 30 ironworkers will be on the site to install the steel support beams for the Schuman Pavilion Pedestrian Bridge that will go between the Adult Hospital and the Schuman Pavilion over the existing Medical Center entrance.
The Domestic Water Pit — Update
The crew is laying out and connecting the intake water pipes. Since the pipes are being laid beyond (to the south) the initial pit a trench had to be dug and shored up with a modular trench system, which is held apart by spreader pipes. The purpose of these systems is to prevent the sides of the trench from collapsing in on the work crew.The work site as viewed from the southwest corner.Manhandling the manhole risers: Rolling the four risers off of the staging yard, at grade, on the right down into the pit in preparation of installing them over the tank hatches in the next few days.
The Fire Water Pit — Update
The 40,000-gallon tank has been lowered into the pit and is undergoing pressure testing.Three panels showing the pressure test in progress. At the west end of the firewater pit, a trench is being dug for a pipe to be laid, which will connect to the fire pump room, which will be located in the southwest corner of level “A.”After the pressure testing was completed (it passed), gravel will be carefully dumped into the pit and compacted around the tank.
The Tunnel — Update
At the west end, carpenters are framing the forms for the first of the concrete pours. The rodbusters are also laying rebar to reinforce the concrete when poured.Looking down in the middle of the tunnel area where the rebar is being laid and forms are being built. The carpenters are at work at what will be the east end of the tunnel, which connects into the foundation of Level “A.” To snap this image, I stood on the concrete electrical conduit (see X in the center of inset image in the following photograph).I stood on the concrete electrical conduit (see X in the center of inset image) to take this image of the rebar facing west toward the existing Medical Center. A closeup overhead view of the tunnel. Look closely you will see someone climbing a ladder, the bottom of the trench, and standing on the concrete electrical conduit a group of men, no doubt, discussing a construction technique. The arrows indicated the path I take. I will take the ladder down to the concrete conduit (where the men are standing), take photos, and then take the ladder up the other side to make my way around to the north side of the building.And on the sixth day of the week – early on Friday morning – the concrete trucks rolled in and the bottom layer of concrete was poured for the tunnel floor.A view of both ends with the concrete floor poured and finished smooth.
The Schuman Pavilion Pedestrian Bridge and Elevator Pit — Update
An overhead view of the area where the steel beams (3) will be placed. The steel beams will be placed two stories above grade on two concrete columns, one on the north side (1) of the existing oval drive and the other on the south side (2), be two-stories above grade and will cross. To place the project in perspective, approximately 90 degrees to the west, the tunnel (4) between the two structures is being built. Going back to the north side of the building (to the left) number 5 will be the location of the main entrance/galleria to the new hospitals. When completed, the driveway will be extended beyond this area and return to Prospect Avenue.A view of the Schuman Pavilion Pedestrian Bridge as viewed from grade looking west.The south support column as it appears after the forms were removed.The Schuman Pavilion support columns as viewed from the second story access.The arrow at the center-right points to the inside access doorway to the Schuman Pavilion pedestrian bridge. The image (inset) shows the access from the outside at the point where the pedestrian bridge will link to the building.By Monday, August 19, the windows on the east side of Schuman Pavilion had been boarded. Soon the elevator tower will begin to rise out of the pit. Below the former windows are two levels inside of the pit. The first level (Level “B”) is to the left of center. To the right of center is Level “A.” Level “A” as photographed from grade. Number (1) represents structural concrete footings. Number (2) is the fill-in areas. Often times these areas are filled in with dirt rather than concrete. This area will serve as a rat slab on which the foundation floor will be poured. Level “B’ aka the elevator pit.By the end of the week, the crew was getting ready for another concrete pour down in level “B”, the elevator pit.At level “A” a surveyor is shooting some target areas while the plumbers are installing some underground pipes.
The Backup Generator Pit — Update
Footings for a Retaining Wall at the Southwest Corner
Excavating footings for a retaining wall at the southwest corner of the structure. The retaining wall will begin at the end of the existing retaining wall and extend to the existing road where it will curve east and run parallel to the building for several yardsForming the footings for the retaining wall.
Demolishing the Former Children’s Hospital Entrance
More Construction Trailers Comin’ In
Another construction trailer was moved in over the weekend.A view of the construction trailer location (see white arrow) as viewed from the roof of the Adult Hospital tower. It is my understanding, two additional trailers will be moved in on this site toward the end of September.
The Ultimate Photo to Conclude This Weeks Blog
A Life Flight helicopter rounds the east side of the Adult Hospital tower as it makes its approach to land on the Children’s Hospital helipad.
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 🔨
so will the entrance into the schumann pavillion be at b, a, lobby and second floor
At “A” level. Perhaps the second floor, but I don’t have that confirmed as yet.