Industry Day

At the recent Virginia Tech Industry Day for Building Construction was exciting. The Pathway in front of Squires Student Center was full of equipment like road graders, cranes, and simulators for other kinds of equipment. Michael Depp of the Virtexco Corporation and general contracting, along with Kiewit employees and American Infrastructure employees were on the best of their behavior showing students cool new things in the construction Industry. Items like GPS or Global Positioning Systems that control site preparation where computers control cuts and fills of dirt work were pretty exciting when the possibility of the amount of time saved were revealed to the students. The Industry day was a success, other Students at Virginia Tech were able to have a first hand experience of how the exciting possibilities of the construction industry is able to build the world today. The pictures below, respectively, are: A crane placing a demo wall assembly together, the wall assembly in mid-air, getting ready to pick the wall assembly up, A new Caterpilliar motor-grader, And my professor with the drivers of a concrete Truck that is in the background.

Sketches

The following sketches are of a mock up wall in front of Bishop Favro Hall (BFH), a stairwell in BFH, a drip pan and steel in BFH, and my room.

On a recent site visit to the new basketball practice facility that is being constructed i observed the following: The placement of lightning rod on the east side of the building -Masons laying Hokie Stone on the North side, or the front of the building, as well as capping off the top of the Hokie Stone -Electrical work on the West side of the building -Workers were also laying steam pipe on the South side of the building, as well as connecting the new steam pipe to the exsisting steam pipe line. The pictures (respectively): West side electrical work, South side steam pipe work and back of building, East side of building, Placing lightning rod, North side closer to the east wall, Steam pipe close to the exsisting pipe, West side, North side placing cap stone and laying Hokie stone.