5333 Connecticut Ave. Building Blog

Preparing the upper part of the crane.

15 May 2015

Preparing the crane.

15 May 2015

Sliding the crane on the foundation truck.

15 May 2015

Testing the crane.

15 May 2015

Blocking Connecticut Ave at Kanawha St.

15 May 2015

Crane Extensions Arrive at 10:30P.

15 May 2015

More crane parts arrive.

15 May 2015

Dawn on the completed mobile crane.

16 May 2015

Last sunrise for the site crane.

16 May 2015

Both cranes start the day.

16 May 2015

Morning wait while blocking traffic.

16 May 2015

The site crane counter weights off first.

16 May 2015

16 May 2015

Then the site cross bars.

16 May 2015

Taking down another cross bar

16 May 2015

Maxim mobile crane cab closeup.

16 May 2015

Then the site crane wench.

16 May 2015

And the crane walkway.

16 May 2015

At 3:30P the first vertical part of the site crane was removed.

16 May 2015

The last look of site crane at 4:30P.

16 May 2015

89. Week of Monday, 11 May, 2015

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• Sunday, 17 May, 2015

Delayed by the rain yesterday evening, the

mobile crane was finally disassembled by late

afternoon.

• Saturday, 16 May, 2015

Just as it was assembled Friday, 21 March, 2014

during Week 29, the site crane came down piece

by piece.

• Friday, 15 May, 2015

- Friday evening the large MAXIM, mobile crane

arrived and was assembled during the evening and

into the night, blocking four of the six lanes of

Connecticut Ave traffic and closing Kanawha St

east side.

- 5333 Connecticut Construction Crane Removal

this Weekend

Fri May 15, 2015 7:11 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Randy Speck"

At 9:00 am on May 15, I received the following

notice from the construction manager at 5333

Connecticut regarding the removal of the

construction crane from the site:

I was just advised that the crane needed to

remove the tower crane from the project has

been repaired and is available for this weekend.

Further, the weather forecast is favorable and the

City has no objection for the originally planned

tower crane removal to occur this weekend. This

will allow us to avoid having to do this work on

Memorial Day weekend.

To briefly condense the previously provided plan

[a lengthy description of the technical steps in the

process] that was provided you:

· set up will start this evening,

· the actual disassembling of the tower crane will

start Saturday morning and

· demobilization will be finished before the sun

comes up on Sunday.

Randy Speck

Chair, ANC 3/4G

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