On Wednesday, our second round of concrete pours was completed. We reached site at around 9:00 AM and made one last walk-around of our form work and rebar in preparation for a 10:30 pour. This included tightening the bolts at the pencil rods of our trellis formwork and oiling the formwork at the large slab [...]
Month: October 2022
The Second Pour
Ever since the completion of the first pour which consisted of the smaller slab and the footing for the trellis foundation, we have been preparing for the next pour which consisted of the large slab and the rest of the trellis foundation. To complete the pour we had to set up formwork for both of [...]
Finishing up Painting
Over the past week, we have been working on painting the steel members of our project. We were able to finish painting all of the pieces that needed to be painted blue, green, and yellow. In process of painting the pieces were two layers of primer to cover up the raw steel, two coats of [...]
Meet The Team
While part of the group is out on site today completing our final concrete pour, I'd like to take the time to introduce our team! There are some old faces that you've seen in last semester's blog posts, and some new faces that have joined us for this semester. Although it's been a little rough [...]
Pour 2 Preparation
On Monday we wrapped up putting everything together for our final concrete pour. Making sure the lines where in the right places played a huge role when it came to placing the form work into the trench. Due to some of the form work either being warped or having bows in them, we had to [...]
Up and Coming
This Past Friday we completed our first of the two concrete pours. The small slab and the first pour of our trellis was completed. On Saturday we went back and removed the formwork from the small slab and cleaned it for it to be reused for the larger slab. We then started working on the [...]
Slowly but Surely
With a productive weekend we kicked Monday off with a small crew consisting of Kyle, Amanda, Jerome and Johnny heading out bright and early to start preparing the trellis trench to finally get some formwork put in. This consisted of checking the trench's levels and flattening it out. Around class time the rest of the [...]
Job ain’t finished
What a weekend for the crew. Friday/Saturday we went out to shape up the small slab and then moved to put in the formwork for the pour later this week. We had all parts moving from me on the tamper, to the keeper of the transit measuring the heights, Jerome swinging the sledge, our dirt [...]
Checking my Work
This week has been somewhat slow in that we are still waiting for our site conditions to dry from Hurricane Ian and our metal work has completed. We are trying to finish and perfect our shop drawings for the wood components so we can get an accurate count for the order and budget. I won't [...]
Painting Time
This past week we spent time painting the metal pieces for our project. We started off by making sure we had all of the labels on each of the metal pieces we had account for. After we checked and counted all of the pieces we started by checking to see which ones needed to be [...]