Submitted by CMullings on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 4:02pm.
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Week 33
This week the birch gym floor was delivered. On Monday the flooring contractors will begin installing the sub-floor and should be finished with this by the end of the day Tuesday. The sub-floor suspends the finish floor above the concrete slab providing a cushion for athletes. Once this is in place the birch floor will be installed which will take a considerable amount of time as each piece is 3” wide and the lengths vary from a few feet to as long as five feet. Once installed it will need to be sanded, stained in some areas and then varnished. The floor also needs to have lines and the Landmark Viking mascot painted onto the floor. What a beautiful sight to see the wood for the new floor stacked in the gym.
This week the gas was officially turned on and so the building now is fully heated. In the wrestling and fitness rooms the three foot wide heat duct has a long sock that extends to the other side of the room. When the heat is on this sock fills with heated air and the heat is gently distributed throughout the space through small holes in the sock wall. I had never seen this device before and it certainly is better than a single heat vent pouring heat into one end of a room.
The site contractor has installed the curbing slab in some locations so that you can begin to see what the parking lot will look like. He is working on finishing the drainage system under the parking lot and building the sidewalks along the front of the building. Each day the huge pile of loam cleared from the site back in September gets smaller. Some of that loam is being transported by the grounds department to a storage area behind the gym at the Manchester campus for use on future projects.
The baseball bating cage was installed this week in the gym and the sprinkler system was filled with water. Finish trim is being installed by carpenters on the exterior structures. The electricians are busy pulling wires through conduit which runs throughout the building. The project team is very busy resolving last minute design issues as the project completion date is only four weeks away.
Dave Seiter
Director of Facilities
