Basketball Practice Facility Visit on 2/26

A worker was making concrete on site

A few workers were working on connecting new utility lines to the existing ones. This photo was taken along Washington Street, near the main entrance to the site is located.

Significant progress has taken place at the front of the site. The grand staircase is visible and in place. Workers were installing long metal strips near the staircase.

Workers were continuing to install hokie stone along the backside of the site.

This photo shows the storage of new materials delivered to the site today. The materials seemed to be windows and metal panels.

A forkflift takes the windows and metal panels off the flat bed truck and puts it into the appropraite storage location

Estimating Blog Post

Total Assembly Cost

Unit Assembly Cost

Total Unit Cost

Unit Cost

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My estimating for the price and quantity of concrete involved four different excel files. The concrete included in the estimate was the slab, the continuous footings, and the column footings. I used the website RS Means to find the costs for each item involved in the construction process for concrete. This included materials such as reinforcing steel, dowel rods, vapor barriers, and gravel. Using square feet, linear feet, or cubic feet, I was able to calculate the appropriate number of materials I would need for this project. The first step was to calculate the cost of a single quantity of material and the resulting cost, which is identified in "Unit Cost" and "Total Unit Cost". After that, I simply multiplied the price of one unit by the number of that material actually needed. This is represented by "Total Assembly Cost" and "Total Unit Cost". The interesting part of these take-offs was that the Assembly Cost was significantly more expensive than the Unit Cost.

Wall Assembly

My wall assembly is of a basic exterior wall. The materials in this wall asembly are CMU blocks, drywall, insulation, mortar, and brick

Link to site:
http://www.masonrymagazine.com/7-07/art/moistFigure1.jpg

02/24/09

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