Improving the educational experience of veterinary students
Starting tomorrow at 4am, Fortis will begin pouring concrete slab for the new clinic. We are expecting to pour about 170sq. yds. of concrete for the new foundation.
Please be patient and aware of concrete trucks in and around the hospital parking lot.
For the new clinic, this week Fortis will be working on the slab edge forming and the slab rebar installation in preparation of an early morning concrete slab on grade pour starting at 4 am Friday the 19th.
In the parking lot, they will be clearing out the island to make room for additional clinic parking.
On the other side of Magruder, the lecture hall will have the electrical and plumbing roughed in. Also, they will be excavating for the footing for the LINAC addition.
to check out updated photos and the 4 week outlook schedule click the photos tab at the top of the page.
The first floor of Magruder Hall and the North Small Animal Hospital Wing sewer line will be shut on from 5:00 am to 8:00 am Friday, October 12th. Restrooms and sinks in these areas will be CLOSED for the duration of the tie in of the new sewer line to the existing line.
Fortis will be working hard to get this done as quick as possible, thank you for patience.
On Monday 10/8 the Fortis crew will begin the concrete pour for the footings at the new lecture hall.
Over at the clinic location, work will continue for underground mechanical, electrical and plumbing (i.e. MEP) installation. The clinic will also be having backfill and slab on grade prep, slabs are of concrete and can be reinforced. Slabs can be thicken, typically on the underside to support interior load-bearing members.
Excavation for the LINAC addition will also take place this week.
For the first week of October Fortis will be working on installing under the slab electrical conduits and a new sanitary sewer line.
Continuing on the clinic side of the expansion, they will be finishing forming the footings and back filing around them.
Work will start to heat up on the new lecture hall, as they start the forming for the footings, laying out the bolt template and installing rebar.
Also this week they will be surveying LINAC.
To keep up to date will the schedule for the new lecture hall and clinic, check out the new “Schedule” tab. This will show you what Fortis has planned for the next four weeks.
Concrete for the large clinic will be installed at 4:30 AM this week so to not interfere with the small animal clinic hours. In addition, the acid sampling vault will be moved and the communication vault will be configured. Mechanical, electrical and plumbing installation underground will begin.
The excavation for the lecture hall footings will continue.
As work continues this week at the Magruder Hall Expansion, the main focus will remain on the clinic side of the expansion.
Fortis is putting the foot down on the footings for the clinic. This week they will be digging the footings for the new clinic, as well as, making grade adjustments and compacting. Dump trucks will remain onsite this week for removing the spoils from the excavation of the footings.
On Wednesday 9/12 the main door entrance will be CLOSED for the day, as they dig for a footing. Please find an alternative route for the day, a campus notification was sent out 9/11 to the OSU community.
The later half of the week, forming and placing rebar for the footings will take place as they prep for the concrete pour.
In addition to the footing work, the lay down yard, as noted on the site plans, will see activity including forklift use and traffic and connecting power for the temporary trailers out of the arena electrical room. We ask for your continued patience as Fortis continues to build our wonderful new clinic and lecture hall.
After Fortis took the well-earned 3-day weekend for Labor Day, their crews continue working diligently on the construction of the new clinic and lecture hall.
This week’s activities will be a continuation from last week. Please refer to the previous post for a description of current site work.
We will keep you updated as construction progresses!
Work continues on the Magruder Expansion as preparation for the clinic footings set the base for a new building!
Please note that you will continue to see dump trucks in the hospital parking lot. Refer to last week’s post for safely maneuvering around the trucks and parking lot. There will be dump trucks bringing in rock for the building slab, and removing the excess soil from digging the foots.
Over the course of the week, you will notice the set up of control lines and batter boards. On the larger impact of the total project, Fortis will begin setting up and forming footings. We are getting just a little closer to noticing major physical changes for the expansion!
Other heavy equipment and trucks will be present this week for material deliveries at the staging yard.
Noise levels will remain consistent from previous weeks.
