Friday, October 22, 2010

Video of Foundation Wall Pour - Dining Hall - Virginia Tech

This is a video of the foundation wall pour.

Dining Hall - Virginia Tech


In this photo the foundation walls are being poured. You can notice the forming system that they workers are being used in this project. This is one of the types of systems we talked about in class regarding the ties and the horizontal braces.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Pittsburgh - North Shore

Old painted sign.
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Reinforcing steel

This is the side of a building in the strip district of downtown Pittsburgh. The building is so old and has been losing the concrete that surrounds the reinforcing steel in the columns. (As seen in the picture above)
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