A few more pictures for update.
Footings have been formed and reinforcement is now being added.
Footings are 12" to 18" thick and up to 4’ wide with pier footings a little bigger like 6’x6’.
Two matts of steel in most areas. Dowels have been distributed and ready for installation.
A few more pictures for update.
Footings have been formed and reinforcement is now being added.
Footings are 12" to 18" thick and up to 4’ wide with pier footings a little bigger like 6’x6’.
Two matts of steel in most areas. Dowels have been distributed and ready for installation.
Justo;
We are all here to help and anything I can provide to help you with, I am here.
Just happy to see that some are looking at a Project that is ongoing and hope it sparks some questions from a few and we all learn in the process.
I have a lot more photos, but did not know if anyone was interested in seeing them, so I have been cautious as to how many I post.
Meanwhile on the other side of the project of phase two;
Well, footings have been stripped and cleaned ready for wall layout for the formwork.
Pouring the elevator pit footer
A water stop has been cast in the base footer to make the pit water tight.
Two matts of steel at the elevator pit. A two foot sump hole incorporated in the pit for future sump pump that will be connected to an oil water separator on an alarm system.
Poured footings. Concrete mix design for the Project is 4000 PSI. 7-day break results should be in today. Anticipated 7 day break should be around 3800 to 4100 psi. Design is for 4000 psi at 28 days, but we use a mid-range water reducer additive that shoots up the compression strengths dramatically. Concrete is usually poured at between 4-5" slumps.
Well, in the past couple of weeks, the Book Store project has been delayed due to starting yet a third project on Campus of an emergency gym floor water problem.
After twenty years, water found it’s way underneath the Field House Gym floor and destroyed it.
18,000 sq. ft. gym floor, to remove the floor, bleachers, and the concrete floor underneath.
Abandoned piping of all sorts over the years contributed to the water envasion.
So here are a couple of pictures of the form work in progress at the book store.
We do our own foundations and use the newest of the Western Alluminum form system. The gasketed system does not allow any liquids escape even with the use of the vibrator.
Do you think there is enough reinforcement?
Maybe House foundations would not bulge in with this design. ha. ha.
Well, kids are moving in on the 28th of this month, and right at the wire the Northern part of the project is pretty well complete. Phew that is to close for comfort.
Spiral staircase brings them up to the College Pub.
That should be fun to watch. ha. ha.
Hi Marcel, nice project! you must be glad it’s winding down,
Remember my project in No. Berwick where I was converting a ranch into a cape? Well two months later we have the permit! funding is secured, just waiting for paper work from the bank.
Job includes a second story addition with a full dormer, complete trenching around the foundation for a perimeter drain, upgrading the electrical service to 200 amps and putting it underground from the house to the street.
OH, by the way, they actually use the 1999 BOCA code!!! this should be interesting as most of Maine uses the 2003 IBC.
I’ll post some picture’s, sorry not commercial but interesting anyway.