Whittemore Ave neighborhood area and North Parking Lots:
- Building 1: Ongoing activities related to interior construction.
- Building 2: Construction activities for the interior and exterior are nearing completion
- Building 3: Continued construction activity related to both interior and exterior.
- North Parking Lot and East Parking Lot: completed
- Building 2 & Building 3 alleyway landscape and hardscape installations nearing completion
- Gate A is open and sidewalk installation is completed
- Gate E near the jug handle road has been completed
Pile-driving activities are ongoing in Building B5’s and the Garage’s footprint. This will use a combination of vibratory and impact methods.
A pile foundation is a series of steel beams inserted into the ground to transmit loads to a lower subsoil level. A vibratory hammer is a machine attached to a boom crane that holds the pile vertically and vibrates it into the ground. Piles are vibrated and pushed into the ground to act as steady support for structures built on top of them. Piles transfer the loads from structures to hard strata, rocks, or soil with high bearing capacity.
Piles are initially driven using a vibratory hammer. This method typically makes less noise and has a small vibration footprint. Once piles are driven to the required depth at bedrock, they are finished using an impact hammer. A pile impact hammer is a machine that hammers it into the bedrock. Blows are repeated by lifting and dropping a heavy weight on the pile. Piles should be hammered into the ground until the refusal point is reached, which is the point where a pile cannot be driven into the soil any farther. Typically, each pile would receive somewhere between 10 & 20 blows before reaching its refusal point.
Winter heaters have been installed in Building 3 and will run continuously. In late October, the Licensing Commission approved our application for a noise ordinance variance.
November & December Construction Plan: