Comments on: Library Lot

By: schoolsmuse

schoolsmuse — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:23:42 +0000

Don’t you think we should be hosting regular readings of “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel?”

By: Rod Johnson

Rod Johnson — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:59:33 +0000

Or invasions from the earth’s core.

By: abc

abc — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:44:14 +0000

Well safe from sink holes maybe, not necessarily crime.

By: Rod Johnson

Rod Johnson — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:18:06 +0000

But think about what an incredibly safe park it would be!

By: abc

abc — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:26:20 +0000

“…pouring the structural slab at the bottom of the part of the site engineered to support up to a 20 story development.”

Think about how overdesigned that would be if only used as a park. One does not design a foundation without know what will stand on it.

By: eli

eli — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:38:04 +0000

I had heard that today’s pour required 200 truckloads… I think they are pouring the structural slab at the bottom of the part of the site engineered to support up to a 20 story development.

By: Vivienne Armentrout

Vivienne Armentrout — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:21:09 +0000

The DDA gives this process an impressive level of supervision. At a recent committee meeting, Susan Pollay described how their project managers meet each cement truck to check on the composition and that it has not been underway more than a certain period of time (45 minutes, as I recall), or the mixture is refused.

By: Dave Askins

Dave Askins — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:59:08 +0000

Wonder how much concrete goes into each of these pours?

From the Chronicle’s Jan. 5, 2011 DDA board meeting report:

John Splitt gave an update on the underground parking garage construction. Concrete pours of between 1,000 and 2,000 cubic yards at a time continue. About 99% of the mass excavation has been completed, he said.

And coincidentally, just now ran into Splitt on the west side of the Library Lot, along Fifth Avenue. He said he was checking up on the concrete pours at the underground parking structure and the Zaragon Place II project.