Aerial View of Alter Hall

"Alter Hall will truly help us to build, invest and transform the future of The Fox School of Business."

M. Moshe Porat, Dean
The Fox School of Business and Management

Archive for May, 2007

Alter Foundation Wall Meets Speakman Hall

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

This morning workmen removed forms used to build the foundation wall that joins Alter Hall with Speakman at the northwest corner facing Liacouras Walk.  The Liacouras-side wall is nearly complete, and crews have begun planting rebar and erecting yellow forms for the foundation wall along the Montgomery Avenue side of Alter Hall.

The video below shows members of the Biddle team removing yellow forms that will be used to complete the wall along Montgomery Avenue.

 

Is that Spiderman Perched on the Rebar?

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

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The Wall Grows

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

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Section by section, workmen connect the pieces to form a continuous wall.  As each reusable form is removed, it is reinstalled around a connecting section of re-bar to build the foundation wall along

 

… and let there be wall!

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

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Finally, after all the digging, all the shoring, all the pipe moving and excavation, we have the first tangible sign of a building … a concrete wall.