Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The Serrano - Concrete deck formwork

 Construction of the concrete deck formwork has began.  Plywood (which is essentially the bottom of the concrete deck) is securely attached to metal scaffolding below.  Many, many building systems must be coordinated before any concrete can be poured. It's amazing how much material is used for formwork... Once the concrete deck is set then it all gets taken down and reused (hopefully) somewhere else!



 Transformation from North to South.... Finishing putting up scaffolding on the South end of buildng.


 Negataive of concrete column caps


 Negative of concrete beam in the foreground.  Elevator hoistway with mechanical exhaust shaft in the background


 Top of plywood matches up with top of CMU walls. 


 Coming down the vehicular ramp... Fan Room opening in a CMU wall and trench drain in place


 South end of building (looking NW).  Putting up scaffolding for concrete deck formwork


 Underneath all that plywood is a deep forest of metal scaffolding


 Plywood gets laid out and attached to supports below.


Scaffolding and all the supporting members are designed and adjusted to make plywood sheets flush with the top of CMU walls

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