Industry Day

this is the simulator set up by American Infrastructure. I felt like it was a really accurate depiction of what it would be like to operate an excavator. The only other time I've operated a piece of construction equipment was about 10 years ago, I got to drive a bull dozer because some construction worker was actually cool with it.

Here's a picture of Spectra IS's tent set up with the crane they brought as a demo for students to get in and operate. I wasn't able to talk to the representatives from Spectra but I talked to Dannette Beane for a while. It was about 3:30 and her and some others were packing up tables and displays. I watched as some students operated the crane, trying to pick up and move a concrete block. I wanted to try it out, but there were some other students in line waiting to operate it, but there wasn't a line for the excavation simulator that was set up by American Infrastructure. I walked over to the trailer and introduced myself to the AI representative, Alex, I think. We talked briefly about his company and how my dad was involved in civil construction and learned that the company's offices are based out of Chantilly, Va. I was just being nice because infrastructure construction doesn't really interest me.
Finally I climbed into the trailer and sat down in the seat. I chose a basic excavation demo to try and get a feel for the controls. After stuggling for a couple minutes figuring out what pedals and joystick did what, Alex suggested I try a sample scenario where I had to load excavated dirt into the back of a dump truck. I was working the excavator for some time, but after a while it became repetative and hot, and there were two other guys in line who seemed pretty eager to give it a shot so I let them. I thanked Alex for letting me play with the simulator and he gave me a brochure that I looked at when I got home but figured I would probably never show too much interest in the company because I guess it's not really a field that I would want to pursue.

Sketches Assignment

Here's the layout of my room in my apartment along with the cross sections of the exterior wall at the lone window of my room, and the interior wall section taken from my door frame.

This is one of the drip pans on the ceiling of BF Hall's 3rd floor. The drip pan and the rest of the structure were hung under the interection of the hot/cold water pipes, and the large air vent. The structure itself looked to be simple, a shallow box made out of sheet metal suspended by cables at the corners to collect any condensation from falling to the floor.

This is the cross section of the wall in the yard outside of BF hall. The materials used include CMU blocks, styrofoam insulation, plastic weatherstripping/insulator, and of course the aesthetically pleasing hokie/lime stone.

Here are three seperate drawings of the stairwell. One is a plan drawing taken from the upper landing shown complete with handrail. the detail drawing is basically the cross section view with some rough dimensions added to it. The concrete you see as the material for the actual step is actually just concrete poured in place into a a steel structure with a pan design for the concrete to rest.