WTF? Bad planning.

lightman1
lightman1 Posts: 10,794
edited January 2017 in The Clubhouse
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Right.....So I drive about 10-11 hours yesterday from Indiana to Virginia. Storm recovery preparation....thank me later.
I reach the motel I was booked in. Looks like a new construction. Bonus! I grab my gear, check in and slog on to my room. Open the door and I am greeted by this monolith smack dab in middle of the room. DaHell??!
Mind you, it's a one story building. Not much load to bear. It's a formed concrete pillar where I can not see any structural value to it's placement.
I've been in construction of dog houses to 70 story office buildings. Even helped out on Panthers Stadium.
Never have I seen such a miscalculation.
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  • hochpt21
    hochpt21 Posts: 5,423
    Lol!!!

    Never seen such a thing.
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,132
    Looks like something you could stub your toe on or hit your noggin. Please no toe or noggin pictures.
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,319
    To bad it isn't round and shiny, you could invite some of the local talent ;)
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    gudnoyez wrote: »
    Looks like something you could stub your toe on or hit your noggin. Please no toe or noggin pictures.

    That's what prompted this, Steve. I roll out of bed and BAM! It's right there waiting to attack my little piggy-toes.
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,319
    lightman1 wrote: »
    gudnoyez wrote: »
    Looks like something you could stub your toe on or hit your noggin. Please no toe or noggin pictures.

    That's what prompted this, Steve. I roll out of bed and BAM! It's right there waiting to attack my little piggy-toes.

    Hense the quote "did you get up on the wrong side of the bed"

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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    txcoastal1 wrote: »
    To bad it isn't round and shiny, you could invite some of the local talent ;)

    I like your style, Ron.
    hochpt21 wrote: »
    Lol!!!

    Never seen such a thing.

    Same here. Maybe a variation in the floorplan to run some mechanicals in, but nothing to this degree.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,964
    edited January 2017
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    Where'bouts in VA, ol' son? Nowhere near Farmville, I'm hopin'.

    Our boy... I say... I say, boy! (i.e., our son) has been down in GA at a math conference for a coupla days and just headed home (via his girlfriend's digs in NoVa) today. Just wonderin' if'n they got hit hard down in his neck of the woods.
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,319
    Did they expand that side of the building out to accomadate ADA rooms or suites
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  • GlennDog
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    edited January 2017
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    monolith-sun.jpg

    Where'bouts in VA, ol' son? Nowhere near Farmville, I'm hopin'.

    Our boy... I say... I say, boy! (i.e., our son) has been down in GA at a math conference for a coupla days and just headed home (via his girlfriend's digs in NoVa) today. Just wonderin' if'n they got hit hard down in his neck of the woods.

    Back to Winchester. Not much snow in NoVa. Looks like Hampton Roads up to DC on the coast side. You New Englandahs holding up?
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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    I see concrete pillars like that all the time but they are used for post tension concrete decks. Is the ceiling concrete :p
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,964
    The Cape & southeast MA got fairly pummeled. Nothin' up here in the Upper Valley but cold (1 degree F this morning; but tomorrow it is s'posed to be cold).

    Note that the mathematics prof's place of employment is down in Farmville (sort of south and a little west of Richmond) -- I think they were under a winter storm warning for this last one but he wasn't there so I don't know if'n they got pummeled (relatively speaking) or not.

    I guess I could unleash teh power of teh webs & find out ;)
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    txcoastal1 wrote: »
    Did they expand that side of the building out to accomadate ADA rooms or suites

    It's pretty much a single story rectangle. All rooms look to be ADA set. Took a peek in a couple rooms the staff were cleaning and this is the only one. Go figure. There are no RTUs on top. No elevator shafts.
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,204
    They knew you were coming Russ, that's the hospitality suite

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,964
    nbrowser wrote: »
    Somewhere there's an engineer that can't figure his or her way out of a wet paper bag. This is that engineer.

    Reminds me of the old joke in my line of work.
    Q: What do you call the person who graduates last in his (or her) class in medical school?

    A: "Doctor"

    I imagine the Man of Light's suite was designed by a CAD/CAM guru.

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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    heiney9 wrote: »
    They knew you were coming Russ, that's the hospitality suite

    H9

    Hate to see what the cheap rooms look like. :#
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    It'll be useful if you get a chance to play hide and seek.
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,319
    mdaudioguy wrote: »
    It'll be useful if you get a chance to play hide and seek.

    Hey Russ, Call Mike
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,904
    ^^looks like a mirror just across from it on the wall. He can play hide a seek with himself.
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,319
    :s:s
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    txcoastal1 wrote: »
    mdaudioguy wrote: »
    It'll be useful if you get a chance to play hide and seek.

    Hey Russ, Call Mike

    Which one? There's about 78 of 'em here.
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    motorhead43026 wrote: »
    ^^looks like a mirror just across from it on the wall. He can play hide a seek with himself.

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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    mrbiron wrote: »
    I see concrete pillars like that all the time but they are used for post tension concrete decks. Is the ceiling concrete :p

    Exactly! This place looks like steel beam on corner caisons then 6" framing studs for outside walls. Width front to back...maybe 70'. Prolly steel roof truss to centerline supports along the main hallway. So no more than a 35' span. Flat roof one story building so no loads there.
    AND...it's only about three feet from the outside wall....
    A head scratcher for sure.
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    The Cape & southeast MA got fairly pummeled. Nothin' up here in the Upper Valley but cold (1 degree F this morning; but tomorrow it is s'posed to be cold).

    Note that the mathematics prof's place of employment is down in Farmville (sort of south and a little west of Richmond) -- I think they were under a winter storm warning for this last one but he wasn't there so I don't know if'n they got pummeled (relatively speaking) or not.

    I guess I could unleash teh power of teh webs & find out ;)

    Radford U?
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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    Maybe the plan was to put the infrastructure in for future upper floors...

    There's gotta be a point load there but a simple lally column should have sufficed. It's cute to say the least.
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,779
    gudnoyez wrote: »
    Looks like something you could stub your toe on or hit your noggin. Please no toe or noggin pictures.

    Keep Skip away or we'll get 7 pages on how the HC system sucks... >:)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,964
    edited January 2017
    lightman1 wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    The Cape & southeast MA got fairly pummeled. Nothin' up here in the Upper Valley but cold (1 degree F this morning; but tomorrow it is s'posed to be cold).

    Note that the mathematics prof's place of employment is down in Farmville (sort of south and a little west of Richmond) -- I think they were under a winter storm warning for this last one but he wasn't there so I don't know if'n they got pummeled (relatively speaking) or not.

    I guess I could unleash teh power of teh webs & find out ;)

    Radford U?

    Nope, and not Longwood, either ;)


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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    edited January 2017
    mrbiron wrote: »
    Maybe the plan was to put the infrastructure in for future upper floors...

    There's gotta be a point load there but a simple lally column should have sufficed. It's cute to say the least.

    Yep. Seems like overkill given the placement and size of existing structure.
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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    Maybe that's where Jimmy Hoffa is at.
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