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McCreary Indoor Practice Center - Collegiate Arms Race Thread

RacerDeac said:
It's not a load bearing wall. Punching some holes through it won't be a problem.



Yeah. The boarded-up house look really makes a statement...
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There are ways of installing temporary walls with plywood that look pretty finished. If they are planning to knock out bricks, they could have at least framed the planned opening and then bricked it up. Now they have to create the opening and then go back and finishe the edges of the newly created hole. Not smart way of doing the construction.
 
Deaconblue said:
There are ways of installing temporary walls with plywood that look pretty finished. If they are planning to knock out bricks, they could have at least framed the planned opening and then bricked it up. Now they have to create the opening and then go back and finishe the edges of the newly created hole. Not smart way of doing the construction.
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Eh, I suspect most of that wall comes out anyway to allow the two buildings to be better joined/integrated. Seeing as there was no financial commitment for the SPC when the IPF was being built, and that plans often change (the current renderings of the SPC show a much larger ground floor than the renderings did back when the IPF was being built), it would have been folly to frame in any sort of doors/openings. There was always the chance that the IPF would stand on it's own for a few years until the SPC could be funded. In the grand project scheme, pulling down a non-load bearing brick and siding wall will add almost nothing to the overall cost/time of the SPC project.
 
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That is one big crane. How the heck did they get that monster on campus and into the work area ?
 
they lifted it in with an even bigger crane !
 
HONDO2 said:
That is one big crane. How the heck did they get that monster on campus and into the work area ?
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Cranes that big are brought into a work site in pieces and reassembled there. Each track unit, the cab and boom pieces would be on a separate flat bed trailer. A smaller crane, mounted on wheels would be brought in to unload the pieces, position them and hold them for assembly. Once the crane was assembled, the smaller crane would be driven away. The process will be reversed when the job is done and the crane is no longer needed.
 
I think Bob was correct about the tent:



WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Wake Forest University will hold a ceremonial ground breaking ceremony on Thursday, April 20 for the Sutton Sports Performance Center and the Shah Basketball Complex. The ceremony will begin at 5 p.m with principals available for interviews starting at 4:30.

The ceremony will be held at the site of the Shah Complex and Sutton Sports Performance Centers, directly behind the Miller Center on the Reynolda campus.

NOTE: In case of rain, the ceremony will be held inside McCreary Field House.

Remarks will be given by University president Dr. Nathan Hatch and Athletic Director Ron Wellman as well as by Mit Shah and Ben Sutton.
 
BobHWS said:
Here a couple photos from today. Behind the site there is a white tent with seats under it that looks like it has been set up for a groundbreaking ceremony.

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These pictures look fake.
 
Deaconblue said:
Cranes that big are brought into a work site in pieces and reassembled there. Each track unit, the cab and boom pieces would be on a separate flat bed trailer. A smaller crane, mounted on wheels would be brought in to unload the pieces, position them and hold them for assembly. Once the crane was assembled, the smaller crane would be driven away. The process will be reversed when the job is done and the crane is no longer needed.
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So they actually lifted it in with a smaller crane.
 
TownieDeac said:
Ok fine, but how did the smaller crane get there?
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Smaller crane is one of those that drives like a truck, on rubber tires. Drive it in, set up big crane, drive it out.



add: take a look back at Bob's photos of the practice center. There you will see several small cranes that are mounted on truck tires and can drive on roads. Something like the one below:


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So basically they're all transformers. On Wake's campus. Sounds dangerous.
 
Deaconblue said:
Cranes that big are brought into a work site in pieces and reassembled there. Each track unit, the cab and boom pieces would be on a separate flat bed trailer. A smaller crane, mounted on wheels would be brought in to unload the pieces, position them and hold them for assembly. Once the crane was assembled, the smaller crane would be driven away. The process will be reversed when the job is done and the crane is no longer needed.
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Had a random conversation with a guy a while back who goes around the country and is in charge of directing the setting up of these things. He does little of the physical set-up himself; kind of like the guy in charge of making sure all the rides at a traveling fair are set up properly. There's a lot that goes into it: soil tests to make sure the thing won 't turn over; weather data; multiple checks and re-checks; traffic control; and making sure the site is secured 24/7. Makes an air traffic controller's job seem pretty tame by comparison.
 
Bob, Thanks for sharing and posting that picture of the crane assembly. One picture...

"...must spread some reputation around..."
 
Bob's previous inside pics of the IPC do show a difference in the construction of the end walls. Appears the one facing Miller will/can be partially dismantled for a connection to the new building. AIR, Clawson's planned office will have windows looking into the IPC from above.
 
Good stuff.

Campus is a shitshow right now with construction and renovation at every corner now that the students are gone.
 
More 'Big Crane' pics. A really Big Crane!
 
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