Friday morning I went and visited the small utility and sidewalk site on Stanger street, directly across from Mcbryde. This site has been going on for a while and has progressively moved down Stanger street towards campus starting all the way down by the parking lot across from Surge. I have to assume they are installing a new utility or water line of sorts because you could see through the fence for a while and see that they had men deep in a hole working on something underground. This site has caused car and pedestrian traffic to be congested for some time now and it is nice to finally have the sidewalks open for pedestrian use. Attached is a limited daily log report, very few men on site and even fewer safety procedures, and a couple of photos of the site.
12-2-11 Daily Log Report (Reddick Construction) Stanger Street
This first photo shows a picture down the new sidewalk that the concrete was poured for the day before. You can see the labor removing the concrete forms from the sidewalk. The step that follows is to pour the concrete for the last section of the sidewalk, this was done that evening and the sidewalk was finished and open for use on Monday.
Here you can see the new sidewalk from a higher and a little different angle, again the labor is still stripping the forms using a leverage bar that allows him to easily pull the stakes out of the ground. I have never seen a bar like this but it is a great idea, when I would have to pull stakes in the field we would just hit them with our hammers and attempt to pull them at the same time; using this tool makes the process much easier from what I've seen today. Around the corner, where the front end loader is pointed, an existing sidewalk is being removed by a labor and an operator from the utility company; they must be finishing up what little bit of work they had left because as of Monday they were gone.
This site doesn't seem like it could entail that much work but I'm sure there was a lot going on under ground that could not be seen by the simple passerby of the site. It took them a long time (nearly the entire semester) to finish the stretch of sidewalk that runs from Major Williams to Surge, so there had to be some important tasks being accomplished down those holes. Now that this sidewalk is again open for pedestrian traffic I'm sure that the congestion on both the roadway and the sidewalk will clear up. As a frequent walker of this sidewalk I am glad to see it open again. The only recommendations I have for this site would be to increase the safety of the workers on site by requiring PPE to be worn by everyone. Also I realize there was not a lot of room to complete this work and that's why the work zone had to spill over into the sidewalk and even the road on some days, this was a required part of working in such a confined space.
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