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First interior wall inspection day

Photos from May 2, 2006

Today we had our first "in-wall" inspection, a whirlwind tour of 40 partially completed rooms.  Now that the dry-wall is going up, these inspections will take place every week to make sure everything is being done correctly in every single room.  Rooms are inspected when one side of the dry-wall has gone up - i.e., before the wall is closed off from view.  We split up into two inspection teams - one for electronics, and the other for structural.  Ahead the electronics team begins their tour.

Cliff (red shirt) and I mostly spectate and receive a great education in many of the finer points of building construction.  Glen Dyess (UT Facilities) is checking out some of the frame work.

Brad Adams of Flintco (right) is the team leader for the structural inspection team.  He keeps us on task and on schedule while writing down all comments.

We cross paths with the electronics team - Eric Short (UT-OFPC) looks at the overhead conduits.  Toby Smith of Flintco (right) is their team leader.

Matt Shaw of Flintco (left) and Dean Knobles (one of our TACC counterparts on the building committee) take a short break.

Rod Nelson (green shirt), Flintco construction manager for the building, joins us for some of the inspection.  Larry Miller (left, PBS&J) is the lead architect for the building.  He has an eagle eye.

Larry pounds on a wall to check its stability - he finds it too wobbly and in need of better bracing at the top.  Larry's pounding draws the temporary ire of a worker in the other side, who pops his head over the top to see what's going on (unfortunately I missed that photo).

Outside: progress on the brick work on the west wall.

This is the stealth coating for the building, so no one can see it from MoPac.  I miss the bright yellow Densglass, now mostly covered up by the black waterproofing.

The interior of the 1st floor lobby in the connector is taking shape.

Windows are rapidly being installed on the exterior of the connector - starting to get a feel for what it will look like.  You can see me in the reflection - in the 3rd-floor window opening just left of the building corner.

Back at the topping out ceremony, everyone there signed this commemorative steel beam.  It was finally welded to a cross beam in the 1st floor machine room, where it will forever be visible since there will be no ceiling tiles there.

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