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First inspection of third floor rooms

Photos from June 6, 2006

Here's the latest view from across Road A - starting to see what the outside is going to look like when it's completed.  Brick work is about 2/3rds finished.

Today we conducted in-wall inspections of offices on the third floor for the first time - which included my own, pictured here.  Lori Mitchell, who works with Larry at PBS&J architects, converses with Brad.  Lori didn't bang on the walls quite as severely as Larry, but she held her own.  In the background a UT technician inspects the studs.

One of the construction workers obviously harbors an artistic soul - here's some penciled graffiti on the sheet rock in one of the 3rd floor offices.  Brad hoped this picture didn't come out, but it did.

We also had a few offices to check on the second floor.  This is the Director's office, a corner office facing both north and west.  The north view, seen here, looks out on the trees in the west courtyard.

The director's west view looks out upon the roof - not terribly exciting.  Out on the roof workers are applying tar for laying out white topping (seen at right), which reflects heat away rather than absorbing it.  Today the temperature is approaching 100 degrees - it must be 130+ out on that black roof, and with smelly tar to boot.  Must be the most difficult job on site.

Cliff's work area on the 2nd floor now has wall insulation - which also provides much better light for photographing the space.

The climate work area also looks much brighter.  The doorway behind these workers leads to the aerogeophysical work area (the only two work areas directly connected).

This fellow, working here on insulating the duct work, didn't believe I was going to take his picture. 

In the second floor machine room, this technician is working on installing the controller for the water softener - connected to the two water heaters on the left.

Down on the first floor we inspected the machine room.  Brad gave me a tour of the inside of the air handler.  The four doors open onto (left-to-right) the filters, two racks of coils, and the fan.

Here's looking into the filter racks.  The incoming air enters in the ceiling.

Here is one of the two racks of copper cooling coils (I love alliteration when it just happens).

And here's the big fan, which pumps the air into the main outflow duct upper right.

This is the computer which controls the air handler.

Next door in the electronics room, a technician works on the circuit breaker panels.

Walls on the first floor are nearly ready to be closed in.  Before they can, however, they need to receive the approval of the head electrician, the head plumber, and the chief UT watchdog (Glen).  Each indicates his approval with a spray paint of a particular color.  This wall has been approved by the electrician and the plumber, and awaits Glen's approval, which will be indicated with red paint.

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