1/20/09 - 1/27/09

From Job # 8.02 / CIS

1/20/09

Weather: Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s. No chance of rain.

Sub list:
Bailey Electric
Moses Mechanical
Moses Plumbing
Southland Framing
NK Plastering
Freedom Firepro
G and S Insulation
Advanced Sprinkler
Tricon Drywall


I conducted out weekly safety meeting this morning with all trades present.

Jerime with Bailey is putting together the MDP in the mechanical room on the first floor.

Mike with Moses is in Little Rock watching over that job while they pour concrete.

NK Plastering is setting up scaffolding around the building. They’ll start with the foam tomorrow.

Southland’s framers are still working on the extended stay suites. They’re supposed to build part of the fur downs for the VTACs in the suites.

Nick Canant was over here to talk to John and Gary about pouring the north parking lot and the contract on the Searcy job.

Moses Mechanical is setting Ptac sleeves on the 3rd and 4th floor.

We cleaned all the loose material off of the north parking lot in preparation for Canant to pour concrete.



1/21/09

Weather: Cool and mostly clear. Highs in the 40s and windy.

Sub list:
Bailey Electric
Moses Mechanical
Moses Plumbing
Freedom Firepro
Canant Construction
Tricon Drywall
NK Plastering
Southland framing



Bailey electric is running MC cable and setting boxes on the fourth floor. The owners want electrical outlets on either side of the middle steel beam in the meeting room for video projectors.

Moses Mechanical is setting Ptac sleeves and all plenums for Vtacs on the 4th floor and running duct for exhaust fans.

Moses Plumbing is doing their best to get their PVC run to the 4th floor. Mike is saying he’ll be ready for inspection on the 30th.

Tricon is putting pre rock in the meeting room and duct chases in the suites on the 4th floor.

NK Plastering is setting up scaffolding on the front and back of the building to get ready for EIFS

Canant Construction poured part of the sidewalk on the north side of the building. Jerime with Bailey and Todd with Advanced Sprinkler put sleeving under the sidewalk that enters the north side of the building.

Southland framers are working on the 4th floor extended stay suites. They are framing part of the duct chases for the suites. They built one of the walls at the top of the stair well. They need to take out a small wall on the 2nd floor at the north end of the corridor where the ice machine goes.

The owners and Alan and Joey met for about 5 hours.


1/22/09

Weather: Mostly clear. Highs in the 60s.

Sub list:
Bailey Electric
Moses Mechanical
Moses Plumbing
Southland framing
NK Plastering
Freedom Firepro
Tricon Drywall
Canant Construction


City Inspector, Paul Young came by the site today with the state inspector, Tony Woodard. He is having us to add two more access panels in the 4th floor ceiling and 3 way, 4 way light switches to control attic lights. He needs us to make two exterior windows around the pool exhaust area, inoperable. Although he wasn’t entirely happy with some of the design issues, he approved everything that was looked at.

Magnum Materials delivered dry wall for the elevator shaft this morning. They’re storing 25 sheets per floor.

Canant Construction wrecked the forms on the sidewalk they poured yesterday and set more forms in the parking lot.

Southland framers are finishing sheathing and tyveking the exterior of the building. They’re wrapping up the framing in the rooms on the 4th floor and putting dead wood on the ceiling of the poor room for fur downs.

NK Plastering is having to redo scaffolding due to changes on the design of the exterior of the building. They started sticking foam on the back of the building.

Moses Mechanical is installing Ptac and Vtac sleeves and running duct for the bathroom exhaust.

Moses Plumbing is pushing everything through to the 4th floor.

Tricon is finishing pre rock in the duct chases and working on the elevator shaft.



1/23/09

Weather: Partly cloudy. Highs in the 50s

Sub list:
Bailey Electric
Southland framing
NK Plastering
Tricon Drywall
Freedom Firepro


Bailey is getting ready for the 4th floor inspection. They are running low voltage wire for the Ptac thermostats and pulling data and TV cable.

Southland framers are working on 4th floor punch out, building walls at the top of the stairwells and putting up soffet and fascia.

NK Plastering is sticking foam on the front and back of the building.

Freedom Fire is setting sprinkler heads and the heights of their main on the 2nd 3rd and 4th floors. They set the sprinkler heads on the 4th floor 4 different times because the ceiling height changed several different times that day. They were very frustrated.

Tricon drywall is pre rocking the chases in the suites and elevator shaft. They have all of the chases fire taped and ready for the air ducts.



1/26/09

Weather: Cold and cloudy. Highs in the low 30s. 70% chance of freezing rain or sleet.

Sub list:
Bailey electric
Moses Mechanical
Moses Plumbing
Southland Framing
Tricon Drywall


Alan, Chase, Alex, John, and the owners met from 11 am till around 3:30 pm.

Magnum Materials is stocking dry wall in the 3rd and 4th floors.

Moses Plumbing is running PVC through the 4th floor. They’re running Freon lines for the condensing units.

Moses Mechanical is putting ducts together for the 4th floor suites.

Southland framing is putting in blocking in the stairwell and punch out items.

Tricon is rocking the elevator shaft and they’re taping right behind the hangers.



1/27/09

Weather: Cold and wet. Ice and freezing rain fell over night. Anything up off the ground is frozen. Highs in the low 30s. 100% chance of rain, freezing rain, and sleet.

Sub list:
Bailey Electric
Moses Plumbing
Moses Mechanical

Bailey is joining boxes together and preparing for inspection on the 30th.

Moses Mechanical is installing ducts for the suites.

Moses Plumbing is setting tub valves and getting ready to set tubs.

Several trades didn’t show up today due to the weather.

Ken Hacker, an OSHA consultant came to the site today to perform and consultation and walk through. It went really well.

1/12/09 - 1/19/09

Weather: Partly Cloudy, Highs in the mid 50s. 10% chance of rain this evening.

Bailey electric is on site. JR asked me abbout room 417. It's been changed from an accesible double queen to a lengthened souble queen and needed to know whether to follow the lay out for the accesible queen, or the regular double queen since we don't have a lay out for a lengthened queen. Chase said to go with the accesible lay out.


Moses Mechanical and Plumbing are on site.


Southalnds framing crew is here installing windows, decking the roof, taking down guard rails and finishing the outside sheathing.


Tricon's drywall creww is putting up pre rock. Nathan is supervising.

Freedom Firepro is on site moving and staging materials.


1/13/09


Weather: Cold and windy. Highs in the mid 30s.


Bailey is on site with a full crew. I got copies of the CCTV placements. They got the sheet rockers to put rock up in the mechanical rooms so they could mount their boxes.


Moses Mechanical and Plumbing is here today. Mike has been in Little Rock the last two days. He'll be back here tomorrow.
Brian is needing cut sheets for the dryer vents so he can stub out for the vent.

Tricon's drywall crew is pre rocking the corriders.


G & S insulation will be back tomorrow to finish the pre rock areas.

Ptac sleeves and wall plenums for the Vtac were delivered today along with drain kits for the Ptac sleeves.


Southland's framers are almost done putting the decking on the roof. Roofers and material will be here tomorrow.


1/14/09


Elite Roofing blacked in the roof with felt paper. They'll be back Saturday and Sunday to finish roofing with shingles.

Southland is putting in windows and working on the floor joists for the second floor extended stay.

Tricon's rockers are putting pre rock in the corridor on all floors.


Freedom Firepro is running PVC and iron pipe on the 1st floor.

Moses Mechanical and Plumbing are on site. Mechanical is running slow. The Plumbers are waiting on the framers to finish to extend stay suites.


Bailey is up on the third and fourth floors running wire and mounting boxes.


1/15/09

Weather: Cold and spitting snow. Highs in the low 30s.


We had a welder come out to look at adjusting some of the steel columns for the front porch.


Southland's framers are tyveking the exterior and putting in windows. They started building dormers for teh rof. They had one dormer set by the end of the day.


Bailey is on site with a full crew working. Jerime is putting up his boxes in the mechanical rooms.


Moses Plumbing and Mechanical is on site. Plumbing is pushing pipe up. Mike was in Little Rock today.
Mechanical is still running condesate lines for the Ptacs and Vtacs.


Freedom firepro is running they're main down the 1st floor corridor.

Canant Construction is setting forms in the North parking lot. Drew was the man in charge. He told methat they were allowing 1" fall from the building to the sidewalk and 1" fall from the side walk to top of curb. I didn't think that was right. I checked the plans and got with Drew about the correct elevations specified i nthe plans. So they are redoing some of their forms.


A fall protection specialist came by at Alex's request so that he and I could ask him some questions about harnesses and tying off.

Gary had the stomach cramps and was out most of the day.


Alex and I pulled measurements and set a string line that is square to the building and at the right dimension for the front porch posts.


1/16/09

Weather: Very cold and windy. Highs in the 20s.


Tony Butler and Pops with Pop's welding showed up to move columns for the front porch. they eneded up moving 12 of the little columns Friday and Saturday.


Southland's framers are building the rest of the dormers for the roof. They set another one and had the other two ready to go up. They're tyveking the outside of the building.


Moses Plumbing is in Little Rock today.


Bailey has their crew on site.


Freedom Firepro has their crew on site.


Alex, Gary and I spent most of the morning laying out the correct dimensions for the steel columns.

I field verified the measurements for the door throats.


1/17/09


Elite roofing came to shingle in the roof today and Sunday.


Southland had some framers setting the last two dormers.


Tony with Pop's Welding was setting the columns for the front porch.


1/19/09


Weather: Cool and windy. Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 40s.

Sub list: Bailey Electric
Moses Mechanical and Plumbing
Southland Framing
Tricon Drywall
Freedom Firepro
NK Plastering



Mike with Moses Plumbing said that he is very frustrated with the framing crew. They'er holding him up by not finishing the extended stay suites and the ADA bathroom that's framed wrong on the 1st floor. He'll be lucky to make the 1/30 deadline for inspection.


Tricon is being slowed down because Alex doesn't have details from Chase about the fir downs in the meeting rooms, Pool room, Breakfast room and Lobby and corridors.


The framers are woking on the extended stay suites on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors. They have a lot of work to do.


Mechanical is starting to set a few Ptac sleeves. They have a new guy here names Sean.


The curbs that Moses Mechanical set in the roof are not square at the top. They were manufactered for the wrong pitch. Moses is going to get the right ones out here.


Freedom Firepro is running their trunk in the attic. They have some of their orange lines are in the way of Moses' "p" traps and risers.


Magnum Materials delivered sme dry wall for the pre rockers.


NK Plastering had a couple of guys here to unload a truck of foam.


Bailey is up on the fourth floor running cable and setting boxes.


Nick Canant says if we can get al the materials off of the gravel, he'll pour concrete on Thursday.

I called Hugg and Hall to purchase some propane heaters for the building. They'll have to get them out of Springdale.

1/7/09

From Job # 8.02 / CIS

From Job # 8.02 / CIS

Trusses for the roof were delivered to the site on 12/30/08 and 12/31/08. The trusses delivered on the 30th were loaded very poorly. One bundle had a metal band strapped to the bundle below it and it broke a top cord. Southland framers worked over the weekend setting the trusses.


1/05/09

Weather: Cold and wet. 100% chance of rain, freezing rain and sleet. Highs in the mid 30s and falling throughout the day.


The 3rd and 4th floor have been icing over and getting dangerous.

Part of Southalnds framing crew was here this morning. Alex got here around noon and Oswaldo was about an hour behind him. The framers started rolling up about 3pm


Bailey's crew has been running home runs and putting temp lights up in the 3rd floor.


Moses Mechanical didn't get here until around noon because of the weather.


Moses Plumbing was here this morning and working all day.


Seaside pools showed up about noon and started working on the whirl pool.


1/6-7/09


Moses Mechanical and Plumbing have been here working. Plumbing is taking their plastic up. They have called in for an above ceiling inspection for the 1st floor. Mechanical is running sheet metal duct for exhaust fans.


Bailey is setting boxes and running home runs where they can. They're fire caulking in the first floor for everything below 8 ft.


Southland is setting piggy back trusses and building the stair case in the lobby.