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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 7, 2016 14:59:19 GMT -5
rickii, I looked at the photo I posted of the gutted Hart. To me, the ten uniformly sized boxes looked to be shrink wrapped, with a blue top and bottom? HVAC ductwork would be different sizes, and shipped as loose items.
Ductwork is almost never stainless. Too heavy and too expensive. I guessed subflooring because those should be the first installation once they're done installing the new buried conduit. See resilient pads item below.
The wood floor specs:
WOOD FLOORING SYSTEM COMPONENTS A. Underlayment Materials: 6 mil polyethylene sheet.
B. Resilient Pads: Manufacturer's standard R4 DIN Pads.
C. Subfloor: Provide Sleepers shall be 1 in. x 3 in. x 8 ft. plywood containing no added ureaformaldehyde. Provide anchor pockets in subfloor.
D. Subfloor Sheathing: 15/32 in. APA rated, FSC Certified plywood, containing no added urea-formaldehyde.
Flooring: Manufacturer's standard 25/32 in. x 2-1/4 in., Second and Better Grade, FSC Certified, KD Northern Hard MFMA Maple Flooring. _____________________________________________
Also, I discovered that the racquetball courts live. Getting new and refinished floors.
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Post by sader1970 on Jul 7, 2016 15:21:45 GMT -5
I don't know what you guys are looking at as right now, it is raining hard and the sprinklers are watering the soccer field and I am enjoying the cars going over the speedbump mostly hidden by an evergreen. I'll be sure to "salute" the camera next time I go up that way. But seriously guys, were you the kind of kids that peeked into your Christmas gifts because you just couldn't wait?
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 7, 2016 15:55:50 GMT -5
Didn't you ever hear of sidewalk superintendents???
"....A passer-by or other person who watches work at a construction project from a sidewalk or other vantage point. " [and sometimes thinks he knows more than those working on the site].
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Post by CHC8485 on Jul 7, 2016 16:08:24 GMT -5
Agree on the rare use of stainless for ductwork, but I think they are more likely thin galvanized, not stainless, steel. In my mind, the capping makes it much more likely to be a duct as you do not want all kinds of debris collecting, or worse growing, inside them during shipment and while waiting for installtation. I have been on many jobs where the ductwork arrives and is staged just like this.
Ultimately, no sense getting too torqued up about it as it doesn't matter much and we'll likely never know for sure.
Let's hope the next photos show the floor being installed!
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Fr. K
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Post by Fr. K on Jul 9, 2016 14:46:05 GMT -5
They were working on the main entrance again today, Saturday.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 9, 2016 18:49:44 GMT -5
Fr. K., I can only speculate about the schedule, but I suspect the most critical path (as one would say in PERT) is to open the lobby and the corridor flanking the rink to the south entrance vestibule by about the time ice hockey has to start practicing. The new women's ice hockey locker room is on the west side of that corridor. Before they open the rink to the public for a game, in the last week in October, the public restrooms must be ready.
Comment was made about how far the new entrance extends. The notched recess that marked the original main entrance to the Hart was located on the same parallel as the north blue line in the rink. The new entrance extends beyond the north wall of the rink by perhaps 12-15 feet.
The new elevator and stairs to the upper level are located in the old recess space. The NE entrance to the rink is off what currently is the exterior rink wall along the recess. Similarly, on the opposite side of the recess, the future NW entrance to the Hart court is located at what was once the exterior wall.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 12, 2016 15:10:00 GMT -5
I had to go to the site plans to determine why the road in front of Figge is fenced off, and dug up.
This is for a new sanitary sewer line from Luth that will connect to an existing line near the north end of Figge.
Looking at the site plan, there is also a new 8" natural gas line that snakes down to McCarthy Lane east of Figge, and then apparently down Loyola Rd to McKeon. This line starts at the south end of the existing Hart near the swimming pool. For a fleeting moment, I thought why not tap the large high pressure natural gas line that climbs the hill and bisects the playing fields nearest the Hart. There is also an 18,000 sq ft parcel of land on Avon St next to the rink, which is owned by the gas company.
I am sure there are probably to or more very good reasons why they're digging for distance when a potentially available supply is but a short chip shot a\way. From Google maps, I can't see any sort of regulator station on the Avon parcel, so perhaps one day HC will buy it and build something on a slab on it and the adjacent HC-owned parcels.
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Post by nhteamer on Jul 14, 2016 8:55:13 GMT -5
expand the rink
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Post by matunuck on Jul 14, 2016 11:49:04 GMT -5
Odd to me that we still don't know what our home bball court will look like post-renovation. No drawings etc that I've seen or did I miss them?
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 14, 2016 14:42:48 GMT -5
Odd to me that we still don't know what our home bball court will look like post-renovation. No drawings etc that I've seen or did I miss them? No. Either the design wasn't finished at the time they released the renderings, or ADNP is keeping it a surprise. Aside from new seats etc, a change that is revealed in the construction photos is the adding of a 'false' ceiling to round off the corners (where the walls meet the roof). This may have the effect of making the Hart feel a bit more intimate, and possibly increase the decibel level,
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Post by sader1970 on Jul 14, 2016 16:36:04 GMT -5
So happy to hear it might be louder as long as they try to keep the pre-game "music" no higher than a jet taking off with full after burners.
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Post by CHC8485 on Jul 14, 2016 17:01:33 GMT -5
I think the Hart Center has always had a false ceiling, at least on the perimeter over the upper bleachers then sloping in over the lower bleachers. See pictures below. Will it be something different?
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Post by rickii on Jul 14, 2016 17:16:52 GMT -5
I think the Hart Center has always had a false ceiling, at least on the perimeter over the upper bleachers then sloping in over the lower bleachers. See pictures below. Will it be something different? 8485 -
I agree. Also hoped that the light fixtures over the court would be removed in favor of a bank of lights roughly over each sideline to give Hart more of a true arena feel and less a high school look.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 14, 2016 17:44:09 GMT -5
See aluminum stringers in this photo.
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Post by CHC8485 on Jul 14, 2016 19:07:45 GMT -5
I believe that is the aluminum frame for a suspended ceiling just like the ceiling in the picture I posted. Not sure if it's new framing or just the existing framing with the tiles removed.
Note the parallelogram frame to the left of the 2 in your picture. You kind of get a sense of that same shape on the bottom picture I posted just above and to the left of the shot clock.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 15, 2016 6:38:52 GMT -5
chc8485, you may be right. In the demolition notes, there is a note about removing acoustic ceiling panels, carefully saving them for re-installing later. This removal is to be done to allow installation of sprinklers. The demolition notes refer to a drawing number, and finding the drawing number (in my incomplete set of pdf Hart contract files) would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Thus, I can't say for certain that the panels are in the Hart court.
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Post by CHC8485 on Jul 15, 2016 16:11:16 GMT -5
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 15, 2016 19:03:42 GMT -5
The photo below is quite recent. Bond is the construction manager. From left to right, directly behind the small bulldozer will be the entrance to strength and conditioning. To its left, where the ground slopes away, are the stairs (very wide) going to the locker rooms for the field sports, and to the field level of the NFH. Directly behind the unhitched trailer, upper level, are the basketball coaches suites. Below it, IIRC, is a large team meeting room (120 seats). To its right, the rectangular box is basketball locker rooms. The practice court is where the trailer and the white truck are. I see no footings for the north side of the court, so it may be coming later. The two corridors where the wooden ladder is propped against. Upper corridor is an access/exit corridor for upper level of the Hart, north side. Lower corridor leads to team meeting room and strength and conditioning. Just inside it, the old exterior brick wall of the Hart, is an interior corridor providing access to visitor locker rooms, coaches locker rooms on the north side of the court.
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Post by hchoops on Jul 18, 2016 8:35:46 GMT -5
Was on campus Saturday. no work going on. Did not get close, but was amazed at how wide the footprint is
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Post by beaven302 on Jul 18, 2016 23:43:18 GMT -5
+1. I stopped by on Sunday afternoon and was also amazed by the footprint's width.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 19, 2016 6:07:56 GMT -5
Was on campus Saturday. no work going on. Did not get close, but was amazed at how wide the footprint is I will admit to looking at the webcam shortly after 6 AM last Saturday, and, at that hour, there were quite a few working on the new steel sections. (I've found that a low sun angle helps greatly in defining details and gaining horizontal perspective; these tend to wash out with the sun overhead.)
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 25, 2016 7:08:23 GMT -5
Looking at the webcam this morning, the contractor will be erecting the final sections of steel for the new AD offices (upper level) and basketball, field hockey, and volleyball locker rooms (main level). This addition is between the east wall of the Hart court and the west wall of the NFH. At the south end of the main level of the addition are mechanical, electrical, and fire control rooms. The south end is where the contractor is working this morning.
ACTP in the hoops schedule thread talked about the Hart being reading for the Assumption exhibition.
Looking at where they are now, relying on the webcam and the plans, I believe the main entrance and main corridor from north to south will be ready; the Hart court and the court-level seats will be ready; the rink renovations and the women's ice hockey locker rooms will be ready; and the two visiting team locker rooms on the north side of the Hart court will be ready.
Pour moi, the uncertainty is whether spectators will be able to occupy the upper level seats in the Hart three months from now. The seats will be ready, but this may be an instance of the emergency exits for this section not yet being ready.
HC basketball could play games at the Hart without the new M/W locker rooms being finished, as the pair of visiting team locker rooms could be used in the interim.
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Post by sader1970 on Jul 25, 2016 7:32:41 GMT -5
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Where exactly are the "upper level seats" you refer to? I hope you are not talking about the curent chair back seats. I would hate to have to sit in section F!!!
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 25, 2016 8:21:39 GMT -5
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Where exactly are the "upper level seats" you refer to? I hope you are not talking about the curent chair back seats. I would hate to have to sit in section F!!! No such punishment!! There are the seven / eight rows of sidecourt, bench-type seats at the top of the Hart. The northeast exit for these seats was demolished, and the new exit stairs wind their way down near the new M/W hoops locker rooms. The southeast exit empties into what likely will still be an active construction zone three months from now. This is a yard area leading to the new mechanical and electrical rooms in the new addition, and also leading to the road that snakes around the south side of the Hart.
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Post by rickii on Jul 25, 2016 8:36:42 GMT -5
I'd like to hear the Plan B....really can't see HC getting a CO certificate unless the entire building is completed and operational.
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