Author: Cory Yingling

As mentioned in my previous post, there were issues identified with the prefabricated wall frames that needed to be fixed in the shop before they could be sent out to the site. Yesterday Kyle, Hannah, Shelton, and I worked on fixing the frames and polycarbonate so that they could be ready to ship out to [...]

A few weeks ago we built the frames for the storage walls and started placing the polycarbonate on the frames. During this process, we noticed that the walls and the polycarbonate sheets were not perfectly square. To fix this, I diagnosed all of the issues with the frames and came up with solutions to fix [...]

In between working on site, we are prefabricating frames for enclosed units that are going to be on the outside ends of the pavilion. The units will contain various programs that are going to be used by the students. In order to put together the units, we have been prefabricating the frames to make installation [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday was the first day that we, as a class went out to the site of the build to work on it. Before the majority of the class showed up to work, the holes for the slab were dug out. During the time that we spent on the site, we were able to level out [...]

Following the deconstruction of the mock-up for the trellis section of the structure, we used the great strategy developed by the students from the previous semester of moving the large pieces of the structure in through the window but this time we did the opposite and moved them out the window. Link to the post [...]