I Know How Much You Guys Hate Pictures

[steelersman]

Open a free Photbucket.com account and store your pics there.

To post them here, copy the URL from the PB account and paste it in the box.

Thanks!

 

[Luketrician]

Some of them couplings aren't lined up together!! They're not gonna just leave it like that are they??????

 

[Pierre C Belarge]

How is this for to gage the scale of this work?

There were these really big bugs on the job too!!! :wink:

 

[electricalperson]

that looks like quite the job what was it?

 

[iwire]

The 'bug' looks like one we rented and is about a 90' lift that fits though standard doors.

 

[wawireguy]

That is impressive. Not your average(hire's monkey's company). Very nice!

 

[Pierre C Belarge]

The 'bug' looks like one we rented and is about a 90' lift that fits though standard doors.

When I was working for the local on some of the bigger jobs, the lift that fit through doors was a ladder.

The new toys on the jobs today are very cool.

You know, "bigger toys for older boys".

 

[Rockyd]

Awesome bug!!! Who rents them?

 

[William1978]

We still want more pictures.

 

[paul]

It's nice to see a great looking pipe job in this age of MC cable.

Thanks for the pics.

 

[Pierre C Belarge]

What is really cool about this job?

What is really cool about this job?

What is really cool about this job?

EVERYTHING!!!

Some of the backround.

1. It will have the largest trading floor in the USA. There is a building across the street that currently holds that status. I heard that company is thinking of removing some of the offices around its' trading floor to make theirs larger. (who knows now with the economical situation - I am surprised this job is still running) There is one company with around 240 electricians and then 2 other companies with about 25 men on the jobsite.
How would you like that payroll (approximately $87 per hour per man - 35 hour weeks)

2. The footprint of the building actually has 6 different building types within it and they are all connected in a manner that will be hard for the customer to see when it is finished. The conduit has expansion couplings, and supports that are on some sort of "ball and socket" type of fitting for movement of up to 6 inches in any direction.

The GC of the building is an ex - electrician, so he gave me the grand tour. I hope to get back there again and get more pics soon. I was there for 4 hours and only got around 350 pics. The lighting kept changing, so some of the pics are not as good as I would like. He will open the vaults for me to look at...I think it is a 200 amp 3 phase service :wink:


The pipe seems to go on forever

The measurements for the bending are taken in what I believe to be a fairly new system, and is quite unique. The guy taking the measurements is miles away from the jobsite. He has cad drawings that are constantly being updated. He takes the measurements off of the cad and emails it to the job, where it is electronically entered into the bender. You have seen some of the results, here are more.

With this modern take-off, my understanding is they have considerable less waste than most jobs and have saved somewhere in the neighborhood of 10s of thousands of feet in waste.

 

[76nemo]

Now,....who's your Daddy???

Now,....who's your Daddy???

Their pipe guys are worth grand dollars, that's nice work.

 

[William1978]

It's nice to see a great looking pipe job in this age of MC cable.

Thanks for the pics.

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ron]

Pierre,
Some of those pictures look familiar. Do you know or are you authorized to mention who designed the project on the MEP side?

 

[chris kennedy]

Did you check this pull box sizing?

 

[Pierre C Belarge]

Their pipe guys are worth grand dollars, that's nice work.

I agree.

What about the wire pullers?
Think of some of those pulls. Hundreds of feet and going in all different locations.

It reminds me of the 6 Ps

PROPER PREPARATION PREVENTS PISS POOR PERFORMANCE.

The wire pullers ran into a problem on this job. I am not sure how the manufacturer came up with a result yet, I have to ask the inspector on the job.
The conductors as I mentioned earlier are a special order from SouthWire. They are not only colored, they are also aluminum Simpull.
Well, how does one properly chock Simpull for risers? I will let you know when I get the answer.


Lets also not forget that the pictures I have shown you are only pipe work. There is also much equipment and "smaller" cable/pipe being installed in huge quantities.

 

[Pierre C Belarge]

Pierre,
Some of those pictures look familiar. Do you know or are you authorized to mention who designed the project on the MEP side?

Ron
I am not familar with the designer's name. Let me see what I can find out.
This job is less than 30 minutes from your office. :wink:

 

[Pierre C Belarge]

Did you check this pull box sizing?

I was invited as a "spectator". I would not mention one thing wrong if I saw it, as I want to be invited back. :grin:

It is not such a bad thing to see and visit a job these days and not have to critique it.
If I had one word to say about this job it would be:

Absolutely, totally and completely AWESOME. (okay, I cannot just say one word)

 

[ItsHot]

shallow?

shallow?

Did you check this pull box sizing?

Yeah! It appears to be way to shallow?:smile:

 

[alfiesauce]

Yeah! It appears to be way to shallow?:smile:

?? It's a straight through pull box, a whole lot easier to work in then a rack of pull c's