I'm the BL Harbert project manager for the project known as Vesta.
We are building a 3 building project that, for us lasts about 18 months.
We started in August in 2017 and right now our completion date is February of 2019.
Basically we got a year from now to turn over the tower portion of our scope of
work and a parking deck complete and then Cortland Partners which is the
other part of our relationship out here they've got the mid-rise building that
they're taking from the caissons that we installed all the way through the finishes.
I am the superintendent, job-site superintendent for BL Harbert.
This is the Vesta project
and we are in week number 42 and
we are still in the caisson business, drilling caissons which is lasting probably twice
as long the first anticipated.
I guess the biggest challenges that we've had is
the amount of rock that we are finding that the
geotech report did not show all of in
I'm Cody Jennings with Russo Corporation.
Our particular aspect of this project is to put in the drill shafts which is the major foundation for
larger structures. We've been here for about six months putting in our drill shafts
Drill shaft is also called a drill pier.
If you think of like a pier
that a boat pulls up to
it's the same principle except we make ours out of concrete.
Basically we start off with a giant drill bit
that's basically what we do.
and we drill into the dirt and as we go down
as the material becomes unstable
due to water or soil conditions we'll put a giant caisson in there which is a pipe.
Everybody's been working together well it's been a challenging project due
to the change in the geology of the of the pad we went from some easy drilling
to some pretty difficult drilling which has impacts on schedule and
of course costs.
On a good day it with these deeper shafts we can get one to two a day
with going down to 70 feet if we have to use the wet method with using a pump
truck that we have here it can take some time.
Drill shafts are the unsung hero of the project
because without our drill shafts with our foundation you know
nothing else can be put on top of it so it's it's it's a critical factor and it
folks don't ever see it but they'll know it's there when the building stays put
on a tight job like this usually we're the first ones that come in so we have
you know a whole lot of room but as you see we've got we finished the tower and
the other contractors in there putting the tower on top of our foundation so we
have to move to other portions of the job well there's only so much space on
the site and as more and more subcontractors come in it gets tighter
and tighter with our material.
Everything that you see from the wall line over
here to the west is everything that has to do with the caissons
it's well that's just it it's hard it's hard to overcome that but you have to
work with the situation that they're in because it is a bunch of unforeseen rock
by below ground.
We just have to have to work together...
So my title is project engineer.
basically that's a little bit of everything
kind of like a assistant superintendent at times.
At times, you know I'm unloading trucks
Today, I'll be doing little bit of layout with my robotic total station.
I've got I've got to raise my stuff on the rope cause
for safety,
we can't break three points of contact on the ladder
and - they did have a rope that went from one to three but it
looks like somebody took that up
So, this is a rinse and repeat deal
now that we got all the way up here we've got to go all the way back down
there where the orange triangle is.
So, we've got to climb back back down.
We're going on the 4th floor that's where we had some post tension cables to break and it's a
real issue when that happens because it slows the job down it's very costly to
repair and it all boils down to when the concrete was being placed it was not
vibrated properly around the post tensioning heads
Hey man!
What's up Mr. Brooks?
Can we come through?
All right all right.
This is the dead end of the post tensioning cable that I was
talking about. If it's vibrated well it stays in place and we pull the pull the
cable no problem concrete was not vibrated around this
one well it started to move broke this top ear off of this dead end and broke
this top ear off which caused it to go down which put the table in a bind
therefore breaking the cable.
See right up here? Stand back around this side you
can see the other heads it's up there they're still in place
That cable still in place
has tension on it we're about get the tension off of it so we can
replace the head which that one is broke in the same manner that system is broken
and you see if we have to chip out all the concrete around it which is very
time-consuming very labor-intensive to be able to make the repair
Flow of the project is important because you line up materials and equipment and
flow of work that goes from one stage to the next and what this tensioning
problem has caused us break our flow
right now we're on a cycle where we're
pouring a slab about every five to seven days and so material from one pour has
to go to the other one or it goes up to get ready for another pour.
and so what this has done
is it slowed us down to where we don't have the material that we
would take from the bottom of the fourth floor slab and reuse it elsewhere and
preparing the four first pour of the fifth floor
B-R-5-4-9
sorry
Did I mess you up?
6-3-2-4-9
Are you on the mid-rise? Or are you in the tower?
I could be anywhere
where are you?
So we're here at Vesta this morning, we're just trying to unload this rebar truck
we've got so much stuff on site that we had to get this boom truck in here
just to unload it
this week's been kind of you know the rains been been coming in and you know
it's been kind of ominous all week we've had a you know a bunch of cloud cover
Sun-shining today we got we got our waterproofers out here
finishing their lift on the wall the retaining wall on the mid-rise so we're
starting up of a ton of stuff here in the next month as far as interior
build-out on the high-rise the exterior skin is about to start going on we've got the
the framing and then the windows and glazing going on the exterior of the
high-rise and then after that will mark when Cortland can come in and
start doing the interior build out with with our framers.
No I've left Cody
alone this week I hadn't had to bother him for anything so we don't know how
much time Cody's got left. Lord knows.
Right now we're in my
this is my office, my world this is our on-site construction office
We built this from scratch out of 8 x 20 connex.
it gives us somewhere to have our
documents to on-site construction documents
it's it's insulated so
it gets cold and gets hot I got an air conditioner and I got a little plug-in heater
but right now it's just my office slash lunch break area for the guys
Right now we've got a down to one drill rig we've removed one since last
time we talked because the job is contracting on itself
one crane and a excavator
a little skid steer to help move the dirt we call spoils
and an air compressor
and that's it guys to chuggin along.
Well I'm a I'm actually a third
generation a caisson driller drill shaft guy a great uncle got my dad my uncle
into it and my dad sent me to the University Alabama I got a degree but I
decided I want to come out here and make some good good money and so I went back
into the family business
so the logic up there after the gypcrete is down two days.
what do you want after that?
In a perfect world we would pour on a Friday and the weekends back on
it on Monday
We start the incident door trim two days afterwards
because it's going to be a couple weeks to do what we do the LVT
we can go ahead and final paint your ceilings we can go ahead and final paint
your closets so that that would allow your mechanical guy to go ahead and come
in and your electrician and they could be putting their vents in
so we can cut you some days right there as we're going through.
today's meeting was really to sit down
and try to plan on how we're gonna finish the job the big part of meeting
today was to sit down with a key contractor Cortland Services who's got a
lot of scope of work and say can we compress when we condense can we overlap
your scope of work so that we can better refine our plan to tell the owner how
we're gonna finish the project
we are excited about what we're doing we've had
a lot of weather here lately I mean it rained a lot this winter so far.
we can't control that.
we can't control the impact that those weather days have on so what
we can control is do we have the right plan we have the right logic or the
Are the events of the activity sequenced in the right way.
Do you have manpower lined up so
that when we do hopefully get out of the weather months and we can go fast so
we've got the right people that's making the right plans we get this thing done
on time
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