Construction Commonality

For our lab Tuesday, we visited both the Basketball Practice Gym and the New Residence Hall West. Our objective for the site visits was to make comparisons and differences between the two sites. Some of the similarities I found between the two sites was: both sites were in the final phases of construction because they were starting to clean up the area for landscaping and they were doing touch up work on the buildings, both sites used a lot of heavy equipment, both used a lot of pre-cast concrete in their construction, both job sites were dense and compact, both sides were strewn with debris but, it was being collected. The main comparisons that we can draw is that both sites had similar layouts because of their compact nature, both sites used extremely similar materials, and both sites used similar equipment.

The difference I was able to see were: The residence hall and the basketball practice gym serve different purposes, the two buildings were structurally very different, they used different means of transportation around the site to move men & material, and the residence hall site had exposed electrical cable around the site to provide power while the basketball gym had set outlets. The main differences we can draw from this are: both sites are of different scope and size and because of this, they are designed differently, both sites had different ideas of transporting materials & men around their site, both sites had different layout plans for vital utilities like power.

Even though the two sites look different and serve a different purpose, they both had very similar underlying plans of implementing the construction.