We briefly walked the construction site today and I wanted to show you our progress on the outside of the building. I will be posting more updates as the outside comes together but it is turning out very well and WE are excite how close to the rendering our hotel looks.
FRONT OF THE BUILDING:
BACK OF THE BUILDING:
On Good Friday last week we went to the site to see an update on the new hotel. We can say it is definitely coming along and it was a beautiful day to see the city from our floors. The process of development of the hotel has to happen in phases, with so many different teams working together it is important they all coordinate on each process. Development and construction meetings take place weekly with updates to the team. Stay tuned for an update on the front of the building with the outside skin being applied.
Now that the fire proofing is complete on the building a lone pipe sits where the hose was connected to the sprayer to deliver the product.
The lobby shot as of today. This is going to be a great before shot for a before and after post.
Remember the Salamander Heaters? Here is one running up close, talk about some heat.
The door way to no where right now but eventually it will be the door ways to your awesome experience in our hotel.
Outside corner panels for the front of the building.
Corner panels being custom fit for the building, it is all about the measurements.
4th floor of the hotel where our meeting space and 4th floor urban roofscape will be at.
Guestroom bathroom framing.
All those valves from a previous post you saw have been installed, here is the final product for the shower valves.
Copper Piping – The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
The lead that is used to seal the major plumbing in the building. The team melts this and it is poured onto the pipes.
The 4th floor outside deck area with scaffolding installed to begin window installation.
Do Not Cut – Painted lines display where the support beams have been placed into one of the floors.
An ice cold frosted valve from the oxygen tanks at the site for the workers equipment that utilizes them.
The end of the week, Friday, we meet again and that means we walk the hotel construction site for #sitevisitfriday. I wanted to take you back in the construction phase and explain a big factor in our build. As you know the original construction of the building was years and years ago, we decided to make upgrades to the building to meet the needs of the hotel. Step one to start those upgrades was to level every floor by pouring a new concrete floor. Step two to this phase was then to core every floor for plumbing, electrical, etc… which is what we saw taking place today. This process has been completed on lower floors and they are now moving up floor by floor.
Before and After Of Concrete Pouring
This process was very labor intensive and took some time to complete. You probably saw truck after truck coming to the construction site for a few weeks earlier this year.
The team then took the concrete wheel borrow by wheel borrow up to each floor as a team poured it and leveled each floor.
After each floor dried and settled over a period of time the coring began for all the piping to be placed in the hotel. These are heavy powerful drills with incredible drill bits to cut these holes in the concrete. The drill bits for coring ranged in size from 6 inches to over 1 foot.
Here is the result from the drilling, these are called the cores.
The end result with plumbing installed.
Now to do this for each of our 221 guest rooms in the hotel, so now it is time to drill baby drill.
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