The Barton Road Pedestrian Bridge — July 2021 Images
The featured image for this month’s blog is of a lone man standing at the rail of the second-floor landing where the Pedestrian bridge will connect to the Parking Structure P-4. The 88-year-old gentleman, whose first name is Wilbert, was so intent in looking at the activity below, he failed to notice when I joined him at the rail. I was taken back, how observant he was. I asked him if he knew what they were doing below. He pointed toward the median where demolition of the storm drain vault was taking place and said, “they’re building a bridge that will go over Barton Road to here.” He went on to tell me that several years ago, he had watched as the concrete pedestrian bridge was installed over Campus Street. Wilbert is a retired Lab Tech who began working at Loma Linda University in 1969.
The Barton Road Pedestrian Bridge Project (BRPBP) is one that will need to have its own blog in that it is a stand-alone undertaking, which will be completed several months after the new hospitals open. As the Loma Linda University Campus Transformation Project (LLUCTP) winds down, the BRPBP will come front and center. After the hospitals open on August 8, 2021, I will continue to blog about projects on the Dennis and Carol Troesh Medical Campus that I feel may be of interest. However, I must keep in mind that after August 8, patient confidentiality will be a priority as it is the law.
July 30, 2021
The two rebar column cages stand in the Barton Road median.North of the Barton Road median, rod busters shape and reinforce the rebar for the elevator pit.Forms and rebar for the elevator pit, columns, and footings.
July 29, 2021
The North of Barton Road
At the two column rebar cages, rod blusters reinforce the cages with added rebar.
The Barton Road Median
The rod busters survey the rebar that when completed will form the concrete cap over the caissons from which the columns will be anchored.A rod buster carefully walks the rebar, a checkered path it was.
The scope of the project.
July 23, 2021
Cement trucks were lined up in the fire lane as the caps for the columns and the elevator pit are to be poured.
July 19, 2021
The first section of the first of two north columns being lowered into place as viewed from the median of Barton Road.The first section of the first of two north columns (closest to the elevator tower) is being lowered into place near the elevator pad (rebar for the pad is at the lower left of the frame).
July 14, 2021
July 13, 2021
Rebar cages for the two supporting columns were lowered into place. Two-column rebar cages were tied to subgrade rebar. The next step is to tie the rebar to the top of the rebar bent at 90 degrees. Once the rebar is complete, the concrete cap will be poured to grade level.
July 10, 2021
By the end of the workday on Friday, the storm vault and drain in the median had been demolishedThe median where the median supporting columns will be set. Beyond, on the other side of westbound lanes of Barton Road will be where the elevator tower will be built. By the end of the work day, the hydrolic concrete breaker had demolished the storm drain and vault, and the concrete pieces had been trucked off.The support columns next to Parking Structure P4.
June 9, 2021
In the Median
As a Mercy Air Ambulance took off from the Children’s Hospital helipad, work crews were toiling away (in the heat) in the median and on the footprint for the Barton Road Pedestrian Bridge elevator tower. Begining the Demolition of the storm drain and the vault, which is located in the median. The project was started by using a small chipping hammer.The job was completed by a hydraulic concrete breaker.
The Elevator Tower Pad and North Columns Site
Carefully exposing each support column’s rebar. Each of the ten support column caisson’s was sunk approximately 66-feet below grade.
July 8, 2021
The rebar of the first two pilings is exposed. The pilings go down approximately 66 feet.
July 7, 2021
Excavating around the perimeter of the pit before exposing the pilings.
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 🔨
