This week I ventured over to the new Turner Street Parking Garage that's going up on the other side of Surge Hall. This site is another good one to view for concrete, steel, and earthwork at its current stage. In some of the photos you will see that they were drilling the caisson holes and were also installing the rebar into the holes. This was an interesting process to watch because of the cooperation between the different trades to get the job done. You can see the crane operator assisting the caisson contractor and the site contractor removing all of their equipment from the work area. This was a good example of how a construction site is like a team all trying to accomplish the same goal in a short period of time, typical of almost all construction sites. Attached is the daily log for this site and also some photo's from around the site.
As you can see from the daily log Holder upholds the same standards on all their different sites for safety as they do on the main stream "signature" sites like that of the Center for Performing Arts. It is good to see a company as large as Holder uphold such good safety standards and to have such a pristine safety record.
This represents the safety precautions they take around open holes on the site; this is a new water line they are currently installing and since they are at a hold still here they have the hole caution taped off.
Here you can see the "rock hammer" attachment for the excavator which lets the contractor remove large boulders on site by breaking them up with this machine. In my field experience this was extremely useful in that it kept the dynamite off site and allowed work to move forward at the same pace as before.
Here you can see the cooperation between the different trades to get the rebar cage installed into the caisson hole. It is good to see teamwork on large construction sites because without it the project would never get done on time.
Here is the caisson drilling rig on site, it is currently not in use and is therefore being stored in a staging area clear of the work on site. Proper planning allows this machine a place to sit and a couple of days of down time in order to make any repairs and to inspect the caisson holes.
This final photo shows an excavator loading an off road dump truck with soil to be transferred to another section of the site. It would be beneficial for this site to have used a borrow-pit method to estimate how much soil they were going to need on the site because they appear to have moved a lot of it from the turner street side to the main street side.
This site was a good one to check out and the company was good about me walking around the site as long as I was properly equipped with my own PPE. I do not have very many suggestions for this site in regards to improving efficiency at this point, one thing I would have said in the beginning was to check the cut/fill on each side of the site so that you could avoid shipping soil in or out if it was not needed.
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