The Construction Thread

[chillywilly2]

It's a common Russian name. I know several Vlads.

Its an easy name to say after half a bottle of Vodka

 

[pete]

so tired of this unoriginal style being praised as 'unique' or even 'interesting'

http://archrecord.construction.com/residential/featured_houses/2012/11/images/Bal-House-Terry-and-Terry-Architecture-main.jpg

is this 1998?

 

[chillywilly2]

Pretty easy to design a house when you don't have to consider -40C/F and blizzard conditions

 

[trysail]

cool pic

and vlad?? srsly?? fuck that's a cool name.
i mean what better nickname can you get than "the impaler" ? haha

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladivostok

 

[thør]

so tired of this unoriginal style being praised as 'unique' or even 'interesting'

http://archrecord.construction.com/residential/featured_houses/2012/11/images/Bal-House-Terry-and-Terry-Architecture-main.jpg

is this 1998?

Is it made out of connex boxes?

 

[thør]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me8c7wduww1rygnxoo9_1280.jpg

 

[thør]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me8c7wduww1rygnxoo5_1280.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me8c7wduww1rygnxoo7_1280.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me8c7wduww1rygnxoo11_1280.jpg

New Safe Confinement Structure construction site at the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor site in the Ukraine

 

[rosco rathbone]

I did an afternoon shift in the basement of a Wall Street high rise that got flooded in the superstorm. As the foreman was showing me where our gangbox was, about 5 levels below the street, he said "they had 10 feet of water in the lobby here and all this was totally underwater". As soon as he said that I stopped, got my respirator out of my bag and put it on.

I figure a couple trillion gallons of seawater swept out every basement, subcellar, sidewalk vault, manhole, abandoned fuel tank, boiler room, sewer, storm drain, rathole and shithole from there to the Jersey Shore and it was all floating around in the air down there.

The foreman is one of those redfaced Irish drunks who doesn't wear gloves and usually scoffs at any sissy stuff, but he saw me put my mask on, got his out, and neither of us took them off the whole day.

Some hillbilly outfit from the Deep South had the cleanup contract there. A bunch of white company dualies with Alabama and Florida plates and a bunch of people who looked like Lynyrd Skynyrd roadies running the show. They'd hired about a hundred mutts seemingly off some streetcorner in one of the outer boros and put them in Tyvek suits and bootees swabbing down every exposed surface with sponge and bucket. I''ve never seen so many people crammed into one jobsite before. It was like trying to work in Grand Central Station at rush hour.

They had all the fireproofing off the steel and they were washing EVERYTHING...even the underside of the Q deck. Every pipe, conduit, beam, hanger....everything. I don't know why they didn't have about 100 power washers down there. Everything was being done by hand.

 

[doubleover]

The electrical inspector always has a problem with something!

No truer words have been spoken.

 

[thør]

Cheap Labor in Greenland from China. $14/hour plus room and board, it's the new workers paradise!

 

[chillywilly2]

Cheap Labor in Greenland from China. $14/hour plus room and board, it's the new workers paradise!

The fuckers are doing the same thing here, except they talked our government into it by saying we didn't have trained people so they have to bring them from China, the mine disaster capitol of the world.

It will be 5 years before they can start training Canadians and 14 before the first one starts a full time job

 

[thør]

The fuckers are doing the same thing here, except they talked our government into it by saying we didn't have trained people so they have to bring them from China, the mine disaster capitol of the world.

It will be 5 years before they can start training Canadians and 14 before the first one starts a full time job

With the big projects coming on in the eastern Canadian Arctic, you DON'T have people in Canada to do the work. You should be out procreating!

 

[chillywilly2]

With the big projects coming on in the eastern Canadian Arctic, you DON'T have people in Canada to do the work. You should be out procreating!

Then the work can wait till we do...whats the rush to use everything up.

 

[thør]

Then the work can wait till we do...whats the rush to use everything up.

It's all about the money.

And the Koreans are getting into the Greenland gig. Link

 

[chillywilly2]

It's all about the money.
And the Koreans are getting into the Greenland gig. Link

Talk to Vette about that

 

[sweepthefloor]

http://thelicensinglawblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/ironworker.jpg

 

[sweepthefloor]

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/08/31/magazine/04Mag-ironworkers-spanImg/04Mag-ironworkers-spanImg-articleLarge.jpg

 

[sweepthefloor]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KzMvlbM7m-w/S64TA5L0epI/AAAAAAAAAo4/7v_YKb5LRcI/s1600/True+Grit+America's+daring+ironworkers+walk+the+girders+just+like+their+forefathers+as+they+rebuild+at+Ground+Zero+2.jpg

 

[sweepthefloor]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ii122p1_stI/Tm3v8GSE7UI/AAAAAAAACOI/HebiDdBIBXA/s400/28.jpg

 

[chillywilly2]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KzMvlbM7m-w/S64TA5L0epI/AAAAAAAAAo4/7v_YKb5LRcI/s1600/True+Grit+America's+daring+ironworkers+walk+the+girders+just+like+their+forefathers+as+they+rebuild+at+Ground+Zero+2.jpg

done my share of that too...cept I was the inspector...and we supplied some steel for that job

 

[sweepthefloor]

done my share of that too...cept I was the inspector...and we supplied some steel for that job

Supply me some steel, and I will call him my husband.

 

[trysail]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ii122p1_stI/Tm3v8GSE7UI/AAAAAAAACOI/HebiDdBIBXA/s400/28.jpg

Sheeeeeeeeiit.

I don't even want to think about what a little motion on that I-beam would do.​

 

[sweepthefloor]

Sheeeeeeeeiit.

I don't even want to think about what a little motion on that I-beam would do.​

I don't know how it works.

 

[sweepthefloor]

You know what I am going to do when I have an ironworker to love?

In the middle of the night I am going to climb up on those beams when everyone is sleeping and spray paint: I LOVE YOU! on them.

Do you think he will know it was me?

I hope not, cause then he will know I am fucking crazy.

 

[sweepthefloor]

http://www.art.ucla.edu/images/exhibitions/2009-10/ug/Scholarship09/ASherwyn_IBeam.jpg