Blog, Construction Site, Current Updates A View From the Podium The day after the July 4, holiday, I took the man-lift up to the sixth-floor decking to get a view of the existing Medical Center,... Read More
Blog, Construction Site, Current Updates, Inside the Building The Week of July 2, 2018 and Tucked in the Middle, the 4th of July I aimed the camera and pressed the shutter release button just as Patrick ignited his welding torch. At the time, I had no way of... Read More
Blog, Construction Site, Current Updates The Steel Skeleton of the Podium Was Completed on June 29, 2018. With That the Creeping Has Concluded The steel skeleton of the completed podium (sans the towers) stands four-stories high above grade. In the upper left is an artist rendering (sans the... Read More
Construction Site, Current Updates On June 28, 2018, the Podium was Joined at 1:32 PM [edsanimate_start entry_animation_type= “flash” entry_delay= “1” entry_duration= “6” entry_timing= “linear” exit_animation_type= “” exit_delay= “” exit_duration= “” exit_timing= “” animation_repeat= “5” keep= “yes” animate_on= “load” scroll_offset= “”... Read More
Construction Site, Current Updates, People, Preliminary Work, Weekly Construction Blog The Week of May 20, 2018–The Podium Level Reached; Section Four Rises From the Pit On Sunday, May 20, 2018, the iron workers began hanging steel for the podium roof on the west side of the building. The feature photo... Read More
Construction Site, Construction Techniques, Construction Update Vision 2020, Current Updates, Inside the Building, Weekly Construction Blog The Week of April 15, 2018–Three Stages of Construction Progress The week of April 15 (the work week began on Sunday), turned out to be a momentous week! The week produced three stages of weather:... Read More
Campus History, Construction Site, Construction Techniques, Construction Update Vision 2020, Current Updates, Weekly Construction Blog The Week of April 09, 2018 — The Disappearing Pit and a Little More of This N That This is a week where it appears the mat floor, yes, the concrete floor that we have traversed north and south, east and west, these... Read More
Construction Site, Construction Techniques, Construction Update Vision 2020, Current Updates, Down in the Pit, Helicopters, Weekly Construction Blog The Week of April 2, 2018 — Section Three and a Potpourri of This N That For the Week On April 2, I was told that a significant portion of the ground floor (level one) had been turned over to McCarthy, which meant that... Read More
Construction Site, Construction Techniques, Construction Update Vision 2020, Current Updates, Down in the Pit, Inside the Building, Weekly Construction Blog The Week of March 25, 2018 — Into the heart of Level “A”: My First Entry Into the Building Proper Above the Concrete Mat Section Three: All Nodes and Spline Beams Scheduled to be Set Today, I was told that a section of level “A” had been released by... Read More
Construction Site, Construction Techniques, Construction Update Vision 2020, Current Updates, Down in the Pit, Weekly Construction Blog The Week of March 18, 2018 — With the Threat of Rain in the Forecast, Structural Steel Installation Continues With the week beginning on Sunday, March 18, 2018, A pano view of the construction site and the Loma Linda University campus as viewed from... Read More