Industry Day

Here is a picture of a crane at Industry Day in front of the library. I talked to a guy from Kiewit, I think his name was John, about the crane. He said that it cost $300,000. He also said that he wanted to put water balloons on the end of the crane and put a trip wire under it so when people walked under the crane the balloons would fall on them.




This is me operating the crane. There are two levers in the cab, one on each side of the seat. The one on the right operates the telescopic part of the crane and the boom. The one on the left works the swing of the crane. The controls are sensitive a little move of the sticks will make the crane move. If you put your thumb on top of the stick and pull back you can fell it vibrating, which tells you the crane is moving. This is done to allow the operator to watch the guy directing the crane instead of the crane itself.










My roommate Charlie operating the crane.











This piece of equipment is a track carrier drill. It is used for things such as soil boring. The guy said its goes 1.63 mph and 150ft is about the maximum distance it can go on one tank of fuel. The guy said he bought it for $162,000 from Central Mine Equipment. It has a three cylinder diesel engine.

A Caterpillar grader from American Infrastructure and a cement truck

Sketches

This sketch shows the drip pan to the steel decking with a HVAC system located on the 3rd floor of Bishop-Favrao Hall.
This is a detail of the steel tread pan and the landing. The materials include poured concrete, the steel tread pan, a steel beam underneath the landing, and a CMU wall.
Here is a section view of the stairs in BFH. There is a steel tread pan over which concrete is poured. In this sketch are poured concrete, the tread pan, two landings, a railing, and two CMU walls on each floor.
This is the plan view of the stair well between the 4th and 3rd floors in BFH. I've shown the landing on the 4th floor and the landing between the two floors.
This sketch is of the mock-up wall assembly along Perry Street outside of Bishop-Favrao Hall. On the left is a sketch of the wall through the cast stone. On the right is the wall through the Hokie stone. Both drawings are similar and include CMU, precast stone, sill, insulation, and a moisture barrier but the drawing on the left has a space where a window would go.

Above is a sketch of my dorm room. My room is on the second floor of Vawter Hall. I looked up the details on the Virginia Tech website and found the dimensions for a typical room in Vawter and have included them in my sketch. In my room there is a sink, two closets made of wood, a heater, a phone jack, a cable outlet, several power outlets, and a window unit. The wall are made of CMU.

This is a sketch of two wall sections in my dorm room. The sketch on the left is a section of the wall through the window. This section includes the Hokie stone on the exterior and CMU on the interior. There is a heading above the window and a window ledge below. The sketch on the right is a section through the door. There is CMU above and behind the steel door frame.

New Residence Hall site visit

I tried to see some construction being done at the Black Box Theatre, but most of the construction now is taking place in the interior of the building and I could not see anything going on. Instead I watched some construction on the New Residence Hall construction on Monday. It snowed but the workers were still doing some work on the exterior of the building. Because of the snow they were not doing anything real important. The guy in this picture was using the lift to do a few minor things. He nailed up a few boards around one of the windows near the edge of where the grounting had stopped. He also patched up some of the tarp covering the exterior of the building.

This picture is of the side nearest to the road where the grouting of the Hokie stone stopped. This is where the guy on the lift did the majority of the work. I did not get a picture of him up on the lift because he quit before I got my camera out to take a photo.