Can you believe it’s been a year already since the Groundbreaking Ceremony for Knight Hall and Bauer Hall? The exteriors of the 5-story buildings are almost complete and workers have begun installing drywall on the top floors!
Two huge cranes have been doing the heavy lifting of building materials for the past 10 months. The 124-foot tall crane on the south side of the site came down at the end of May and the north side crane will be disassembled later this month. The removal of the cranes marks an important milestone in the construction project.
Learn more from Tarlton’s Cameron Dennison in this Hard Hat Talk video. There’s also a cool time lapse video of the crane dismantling here.
It’s not a bird or a plane, it’s the Building Olin Crane!
The 124-foot high crane that has been a fixture on the Danforth Campus skyline for the past 10 months is gone. We’re gathering photos and video from all the cameras focused on the construction site and
The view from Simon Hall just got better…
putting together a time-lapsed video that will show the incredible progress the Tarlton team has made since groundbreaking in May 2012 on Knight Hall and Bauer Hall.
Heads up! The 124-foot crane on the south side of the Olin Expansion construction site, bordering Mudd Field, is coming down this week. Disassembling the Liebherr 420 EC-H tower will take three days. This marks a major milestone in the building of Knight Hall and Brauer Hall which began in May 2012.
The south crane tower was errected in August, 2012.
The south tower was the first of two cranes errected on the construction site last summer. The tower measures 124 feet from its base to the peak of the crane. It has a hook height of 85 feet and a reach of 164 feet.
The $90 million project includes two five-story office and classroom buildings and a glass-covered Atrium with an amphitheater-styled Forum in the center. Construction is expected to be complete by the spring of 2014. Tarlton is managing the project.
Visit BuildOlin.wustl.edu to watch live-streaming web cams focused on the construction site.
After a year of planning, last Friday afternoon we celebrated the final presentations of the Olin Sustainability Case Competition (OSCC)! This was the fourth year of the competition, which began as a way to increase awareness about sustainability as it relates to business practices.
This year, we had more than 20 teams express interest in the competition. The case topic was “Blight, Plight, and Urban Flight: Stimulating the Sustainable Development of Vacant Land in the City of St. Louis.” For the first year ever, the case writers decided to take the case off-campus and work with administrators from the City of St. Louis to develop a case that would produce implementable ideas to reduce the amount of vacant land around our city.
After weeks of reviewing submissions, the committee narrowed it down to our final three teams. These teams presented their ideas to a room of about 100 people, including our corporate sponsors from Novus and Tarlton, as well as a prestigious judging panel made up of administrators from around the Washington University campus and the City of St. Louis.
At the end of the day, Team 4 and Team 13 tied for first place and each team won $4,000!
Team 4: Watch Team 4’s Video Submission
Brian Arnold, MS in Finance 2013
Deona DeClue, Juris Doctor 2013
Cody Greer, PhD Neuroscience 2017
Benjamin Mueller, MS Construction Management 2015
Team 13: Watch Team 13’s Video Submission
Megan Berry, Master of Architecture 2014
Grace Goldstein, Master of Architecture 2015
Grant McCracken, BA Architecture and English Literature 2014
And Team 8 came in as our runners-up winning a prize of $2,000!
Be on the look-out for the Fifth Annual Olin Sustainability Case Competition next year! In the meantime, be sure to congratulate our 2013 winning teams!
One of the things I most enjoy about my work at Tarlton is touring our construction sites.
I visited the Olin Business School expansion project Dec. 14. Being surrounded by the work in progress gave me a better feel for how grand this expansion will be once complete.
Lots of steel has been erected, with more to come. Most of us know what a ‘2-by-4′ is, but I didn’t know how steel was measured. A piece of steel labeled ’30-by-132’ means it’s 30 inches tall and weighs 132 pounds per 1-foot length (thanks to Tarlton Project Manager Cameron Denison for the lesson).
Do the math and you can see how several trusses now in place to support the atrium space each weigh a hefty 33,000 pounds. Now that I’ve seen the massive framework for the atrium, I can’t wait to watch the glass roof go up in early 2013.
