The final push to permitting

The final weeks of the term are here! And so is the final push for finishing all the details on the construction documents. We have made some good contacts (finally!) at the city and some leads on engineers thanks to Andrew Brose. We hope to have the final construction set to the city by the end of next week. Come by the studio to see the latest iteration. Shane Rhodes made a great display of our posters to get feedback on the design and get students and parents excited about the project. 

Weekend Update....

The Green Wheel team has been busy building models to represent the beautiful islands of awesomeness that we are proposing. We had a 50% drawing set due today and last week and this weekend have been spent compiling the beginnings of our first set of Construction Drawings.



In studio today we spent a few hours going over the CD's and editing the drawings. They are coming together very nicely and we will be using them in our meetings with the District Architect, 4J and the maintenance crew at Roosevelt.




We took a number of our models and our newest drawings to a meeting we had with University Fellowship this Sunday. UF who meets in the Roosevelt MS gym has been very helpful in gathering professionals in the congregation to meet with us. We gave a brief explanation of the project and showed some pictures and then asked for advice from the group. We had some great feedback from a number of contractors, welders, and architects who were attending the meeting and we had a number of volunteers willling to donate time and materials. Some of our best offers were for roofing materials, enough lumber to complete the whole first phase, and professional expertise in excevation and welding.



Take a look at the images and feel free to offer any insight!

Construction Narrative

We put a construction narrative together as part of starting construction drawings. The narrative describes phase 1.             

The project will begin with an assessment of the site for safety and security. Because school will be in session during construction a fence will be rented to secure the construction area. A space inside the adjacent utility room will be set aside for storing tools that will be left on site. A dumpster will be delivered for construction waste. An as yet to be determined number of existing bike racks will be donated for recycling or refabrication in order to clear the construction site.

            Next, the site will be surveyed and the footings located and marked. An asphalt saw will be rented and the asphalt cut for the five column footings and planter areas. Each excavated area will be 18” x 18” x 30” deep. 6” of gravel will be placed at the bottom of each footing.  A truck will deliver 3-4 yards of concrete. After having poured and screed the concrete the j-bolts will be placed. Once the concrete has cured the leveling nuts are placed and 4” diameter steel columns with shop-welded base plates are placed, bolted, and plumbed. Grout is poured around the connection after leveling.

            The columns will be marked in order to place the steel collars for proper roof pitch. Shop-welded steel collars with 1/4” thick blade plates are bolted through the columns.  Two 2x10 douglas fir members are bolted, on either side of the plate, to form each girder. Four girder assemblies are necessary for the 3-module system. Five 2 x 6 douglas fir purlins will be fastened, 24” o.c., using Simpson hangers, to the girders of each module.

            18-gauge corrugated steel roofing will be cut to size on site. The roofing will be attached to the purlins on the outer two modules. The center module, that is higher, will be attached next. Roof flashing and detailing will be put in place. Gutters will be connected to the outer purlin directly or by using spacers. The gutters from all three modules will drain to a single planter box/swale.

            The planter boxes will be built next – of dry stacked “seconds” from Willamette Greystone. The box will be built to approximately 24” above grade. The excavation will go below grade 24” and be filled with 6” of gravel covered by sandy loam.

            Steel loop bike rakes will be bolted directly into the asphalt 36” o.c. Five racks will be anchored under each module in a configuration to meet code requirements. Benches, artistic bike part details, fascia finishing, and translucent panels are of yet to be determined materials. These will be bolted in place just before the final plantings are done. The Freiker meter will be repositioned if necessary and a target painted on the ground. 

Walking and Biking Summit, Construction Drawings , Shop Training . . . Phew!

Well things have been busy in the studio this week!

Last Saturday the team attended the Eugene Walk and Bike Summit at South Eugene High. Thanks to April, Jen, Tim, Andrew B., Lawrence, Poppy, Eric and Sylvan for coming to represent our project and dB to the community (sorry if I missed anyone). Big thank you's to the studio team for this event. Everyone rallied to produce a great poster and Tim printed these sweet project post cards. We looked like rock stars. Here's a few shots from the event.

Tomorrow, we'll be bringing our poster and project brochure to Roosevelt for the admin there. Hopefully we'll get a chance to meet with them soon and hear what they have to say. If you haven't already seen Brose's project brochure, come and take a look; it's hot.

We are really trying to button things down now in the project with the beginning of construction documents. It is an exciting and stressful time but the team is meeting the challenge with grace and aplomb.

Safety training is tomorrow too. This is so cool! I can't believe how far dB has come in less than a year. It seems crazy. Just goes to show what can happen when alot of passionate people get together for a meaningful project. Anyways, the shop is ready, the tools are in our new tool cage, Juli has the curriculum set, everything is go speed racer.

Guess I've droned on long enough. Look for lots of cool new model shots coming soon.

Cheers,

A

P.S. We had to nail down our approach to phase I, and we all agreed on an 'Island of Awesomeness' (-Brose), that would be located on the south-east end of the parking area. The 'Island of Awesomeness' will include all the aspects of our master plan - shelter, new racks, seating and plants.