Students arrive in Kauai w/instructor and Mrs. Baumann

Hanns Baumann, SE arrives, blueprints in hand

Students slept in tents on the jobsite, on the beach

Foundation excavation

Sub-grade columns of two-way ductile frame

Manual assembly of column cages

One of the owners, Bobbie McCord, pitches in

Class is in session, as Baumann maps out the day's work

Students assist with form building

Pouring concrete in the first columns

A closer look

The closest look

First pour is done

Grade level beam corner junction with column

A closer look reveals plenty of room for conduit at usually congested joint.

Column cage placement

Forms are put in place

A closer look

Some are poured, some are ready to be

A major proponent in this project was the development of semi-automated cage-making

A cage-making competition was held

Students assist with cagemaking

Longitudinal rebar was charged into the cage prior to placement

Completed cage ready to go

They probably don't smell the roses, either

Invaluable jobsite experience was acquired by architectural/engineering students

Slab is poured

Slab gets finishing touches

Students rest after a hard day's work

Rigid cages show no corkscrewing effect

Cages were placed on supporting cages in 3 minutes from crane lift

More forming is done

Erection of scaffolding begins

Baumann hoses down concrete columns

Second floor level forms await beam reinforcement cages

Beam cages are placed

Workers dropped cages into beam forms

Workers designed a makeshift ramp to assist w/getting up to 2nd floor

The roof starts going up

Roof peak structure

Interior structure

Roof is nearly on

Completed structure

From the side

Another view, note the columns are now covered with lava rock

Concrete beams supporting roof over porch

Painted interior beams and columns

It wasn't all work and no play.  Click here to see some non-construction pictures from the 1993 summer project.