June 2021 — Construction of the Northeast Parking Lot is Well Underway
The Third Week of June Special Feature: Placing a 22 Ton Rock Feature Between the East Parking Lot and the Northeast Parking Lot.
As the grading for the northeast parking lot continued, large boulders arrived on site and were strategically placed in various areas, per the architectural drawings, around the parking lot. These boulders were off loaded and placed using a front loader. The largest boulder was yet to come. A large boom crane arrived on site, which would off load a 22-ton boulder from a low bed and place the large landscape feature between the two parking lots.
Setting up for the lift.Preparing the resting site.Removing the chain tie downs.The lift.22-tons suspended in the air.Touchdown.Removing the steel cables.Placement: Soon the 22-ton boulder will be part of the landscape between the northeast and east side parking lots.The large boulders as photographed from the 16th floor Terrace Balcony.The boulder (center) at grade. The concrete laborers are treating the sidewalks that were poured earlier in the day.
The Third Week of June: Concrete Curbs, Gutters, Applying the Base, and Paving the Service Road/Fire Lane to the East Parking Lot and Northeast Parking Lot.
Friday, June 18, 2021
Thursday, June 17, 2021
The width of the Northeast Parking Lot. The north curb is on the right, and on the left (center left) a concrete finisher is smoothing the south curb that was poured with concrete earlier in the day.One of the drive isles (center left) that leads into the Northeast Parking Lot.The handicap signs were set in recent days.
Monday, June 14, 2021
A view of the Northeast Parking Lot as viewed from the 16th floor Terrace/Balcony.
Sunday, June 13, 2021
The curbs on the north side of the Northeast Parking lot have been formed. Where the front loader is located (center left) is where the electrical cabinets were located. They were removed on June 10, 2021.
The Second Week of June – Concrete Curbs, Gutters, Applying the Base, and Paving the Service Road/Fire Lane to the East Parking Lot and Northeast Parking Lot
Thursday, June 10, 2021
A Southern California Edison crew has arrived to pull the underground cables and remove the metal cabinets.Southern California Edison is pulling the electrical cables out of the underground conduits.
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Monday, June 7, 2021
The First Week of June – Reaching Subgrade, Utility Pipes, Compaction and Forming Curbs and Gutters
After the mobile construction, trailers were towed away, and the asphalt on which they were placed was ripped up and carted away, the heavy equipment began cutting into the ground. First, the crew will concentrate on the service/fire road. Once that is completed (including all of the underground utilities), the total hospital complex will be surrounded by the service/fire road. After the road is completed, a crew will begin work on the sidewalks, and the landscapers will begin adding trees, shrubs, and ground cover. At the same time, the electricians will install the parking lot lights along with the shrub and tree lights.
June 1 – 4, 2021 — Reaching Subgrade, Trenching For Underground Utilities, and Forming Curbs and Gutters
Reaching subgrade parallel to Prospect Avenue. The white line bisecting the image (center) indicates where a trench will be dug for electrical conduit.With the electrical conduit laid in the trench the dirt is being backfilled.Excavating a section of the east bank (parallel to Anderson Street) where concrete stairs and a ramp will be installed connecting the sidewalk along Anderson Street to the Northeast Parking Lot.The excavator smoothes out the crown of the service road/fire lane.
In one month the main east side construction ramp was transformed into the road that T’s off of the Service Road/Fire Lane to the East Parking Lot.Facing North Parallel to Anderson Street: At the subgrade level, the crew is compacting the soil for the Service Road/Fire Lane. The width of the road is now discernable.
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 🔨
