During Week 89 we were granted the special opportunity to take a tour inside the construction site of this new 12-story hospital that will occupy an entire city block in San Francisco. Join me and our tour guide Bud for a walk through several floors of the site. This video also includes some flashbacks to related scenes from prior weeks' time-lapse videos.
We enter at ground level and then head below into the parking garage, learning something interesting about the construction of the ramp along the way. While in the garage we stop at the underground pedestrian tunnel that goes underneath the street to the new Medical Office Building being built across the street. They're getting ready to pour the concrete for the last section of the tunnel. We also take a look at the emergency generator fuel tanks that we watched being hoisted into place back in Week 41.
Then we head back up to ground level to see some of the early interior wall construction, look at the tunnel from above, and walk past the concrete pumper, which is pumping concrete up to the 6th floor. From there, we take a man lift up to the 6th floor, where they're pouring concrete, and we learn how to walk across the rebar in the sections of the floor that have not yet been poured. We also get to see one of the Viscous Wall Dampers up close.
Then we take another man lift up to the top floor, almost as high as the top of the cranes, to admire the view from the top. After that, we head back down to look at the loading dock and ambulance bays.
A special thank you to the people who made this tour possible, and also a special thanks to our tour guide, Bud.