10/13/08
7:55 am
45 degrees
clear
The weather is getting noticebly colder. Concrete poured at column-slab connection to conceal steel base plates. Metal stud installation has begun at the first floor south-east (above the mechanical room). Fire proofing has been installed at the first floor south and west wings. Control joints have been cut in all concrete slabs. The gymnasium has a depressed slab - to receive the future wood flooring. Z clips have been installed around the perimeter of the first floor at second floor framing.
This looked to me like a custom-made piece. Mostly assembled from flat and stock pieces of steel.
The 1-1/2 metal channels were being stored at the gymnasium, in the mechanical room I noticed the installed metal studs had the 1-1/2 inch metal channel running through them at about 6-feet above the finished floor. The studs were almost 20-foot tall - I think to give extra bracing without using a cross-brace.
7:55 am
45 degrees
clear
The weather is getting noticebly colder. Concrete poured at column-slab connection to conceal steel base plates. Metal stud installation has begun at the first floor south-east (above the mechanical room). Fire proofing has been installed at the first floor south and west wings. Control joints have been cut in all concrete slabs. The gymnasium has a depressed slab - to receive the future wood flooring. Z clips have been installed around the perimeter of the first floor at second floor framing.
This looked to me like a custom-made piece. Mostly assembled from flat and stock pieces of steel.
The 1-1/2 metal channels were being stored at the gymnasium, in the mechanical room I noticed the installed metal studs had the 1-1/2 inch metal channel running through them at about 6-feet above the finished floor. The studs were almost 20-foot tall - I think to give extra bracing without using a cross-brace.
Retaining wall construction has begun at the south wall - just west of the entry to the mechanical room. This area is going to hold the electrical equipment. A trench has been excavated from the mechanical room to the future location of the electrical equipment. Block is being stored in front of the wall (Trad Ash Gray from Dillon & Co.).
View at south-east corner of site looking north-west. Water proofing installed around perimeter of mechanical room, drilling in progress through wall. Before I left I saw a delivery of steel piping for the pipe fitters (marking on the side of the pipes: ASTM A53B ASME SA53B 5LB 6IN. x 0.280 IN x 21 ft HT NO 195287 China). Also the scaffolding leading from the first to second and roof levels has been wrapped in plastic. Is this to protect from the elements? Why not wrap the entire building in a temporary protector from the elements? Has this been tried before and if so, to what effect?
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