The Construction Thread

[rosco rathbone]

You seem to have power and be doing alright.

Work should be stacking up soon.

My zone was untouched. However our shop is flooded and alot of our work is in high rises and office buildings in the dead zone. Work is on hold til further notice.

 

[Saint Peter]

It will give you the winter months to post here and pontificate the origins of the bubblebutt.

 

[chillywilly2]

That storm will put a lot of people to work for quite a while.
I guess Mother Nature can do what presidents can't.

 

[rosco rathbone]

It will give you the winter months to post here and pontificate the origins of the bubblebutt.

I think I'm probably just getting laid off. They were threatening it anyway.

 

[rosco rathbone]

That storm will put a lot of people to work for quite a while.
I guess Mother Nature can do what presidents can't.

Well Coned and MTA are racking up mad overtime, but lots of other people are now out of work via the city being shut down. I don't know if its a wash or what. I guess house construction will pick up in certain areas.

 

[Wings]

We've been contemplating what the infrastructure needs are going to be in our engineering morning meetings.

 

[pete]

We've been contemplating what the infrastructure needs are going to be in our engineering morning meetings.

sounds riveting.

i assume you're looking down at your phone and scrolling through Lit pic threads while this meeting's going on...

 

[chillywilly2]

Well Coned and MTA are racking up mad overtime, but lots of other people are now out of work via the city being shut down. I don't know if its a wash or what. I guess house construction will pick up in certain areas.

After things get fired up again I believe there will be huge rebuilding and repair needs.

Like you said, everybody is going to want a backup generator.
A lot will want some kind of storm panel, and maybe permanent pumps in the basement.
It all means work, especially with the huge population involved in this storm.

Storms seem to be getting worse and codes and disaster preparadness will adapt to it

 

[chillywilly2]

sounds riveting.

i assume you're looking down at your phone and scrolling through Lit pic threads while this meeting's going on...

It doesn't matter...most of the guys in the meeting are just staring at her cleavage

 

[Wings]

sounds riveting.

i assume you're looking down at your phone and scrolling through Lit pic threads while this meeting's going on...

No, it's fascinating. Looking through the pictures is incredibly sad and devestating but we are also looking at bridge structure and things like that.

 

[Wings]

It doesn't matter...most of the guys in the meeting are just staring at her cleavage

Only when I rest my boobs on the table.

 

[rosco rathbone]

After things get fired up again I believe there will be huge rebuilding and repair needs.

Like you said, everybody is going to want a backup generator.
A lot will want some kind of storm panel, and maybe permanent pumps in the basement.
It all means work, especially with the huge population involved in this storm.

Storms seem to be getting worse and codes and disaster preparadness will adapt to it

I'm calling for a 5 meter seawall completely surrounding Manhattan.

 

[Saint Peter]

5 meters?

Fucking meters??

 

[pete]

No, it's fascinating. Looking through the pictures is incredibly sad and devestating but we are also looking at bridge structure and things like that.

oh, sorry
i assumed you meant infrastructure stuff around your area. are you looking at doing work in ny/nj area?

 

[Wings]

oh, sorry
i assumed you meant infrastructure stuff around your area. are you looking at doing work in ny/nj area?

No, the shipping costs wouldn't be feasible but as case studies go...

 

[chillywilly2]

5 meters?

Fucking meters??

metres are the In thing now days Pete

 

[chillywilly2]

I'm calling for a 5 meter seawall completely surrounding Manhattan.

I think they have been looking at that for a while but too many people said it would be a waste of money because you would only use it every hundred years

 

[chillywilly2]

Only when I rest my boobs on the table.

sweet...I love when you do that

 

[pete]

No, the shipping costs wouldn't be feasible but as case studies go...

learning from other projects is always a good thing

it blows me away when i'm discussing construction problem solving with another architect or a g.c. and it occurs to me that people have been working with simple things like brick and concrete for fucking centuries, the goddam romans were laying concrete for ceasar, and yet today in 2012 people still don't know how the flying fuck to do simple things like control joints

 

[rosco rathbone]

I think they have been looking at that for a while but too many people said it would be a waste of money because you would only use it every hundred years

I read estimates of 5 billion...double it, call it 10...they say they are losing 1 billion a day every day the power is out. Starts to look more reasonable.

 

[Saint Peter]

metres are the In thing now days Pete

Not in the machine shop.

 

[chillywilly2]

I read estimates of 5 billion...double it, call it 10...they say they are losing 1 billion a day every day the power is out. Starts to look more reasonable.

Thing is, it wouldn't stop the wind.

Know what suprised me, this spring when I went to London....no overhead services...everything was burried.

I think that and some kind of a system to seal the subway system would make more sense than a seawall, but thats just a quick random thought too

 

[chillywilly2]

Not in the machine shop.

you gots to learn to adapt lad

 

[rosco rathbone]

Thing is, it wouldn't stop the wind.

Know what suprised me, this spring when I went to London....no overhead services...everything was burried.

I think that and some kind of a system to seal the subway system would make more sense than a seawall, but thats just a quick random thought too

Something will be done. They'll put some kind of flood barricade at least on the subway stops like South Ferry Maybe permanent high speed pumps in the tunnels.

 

[chillywilly2]

Listening to the news this morning and they are looking at big problems with dewatering the subways. All that water saturating the ground will make a lot of places unstable.