Guest Constructors - welcome to the new Great Escape

Several folks have asked about contributing to this site - seems a lot of workers in the area are sick of the sickness, however they can't afford to lose their job over the BS.

So to anyone wanting to anonymously add photos or videos from their cell phones send me a note here green.stone.us@gmail.com along with your phone number - then with the push of a button you may help keep these crooks in line. Folks like Faulconer Construction are not going to listen to any one of us, however with their massive egos and wallets on the line they may listen to all of us.

To all of you still in the trenches - go check out The Great Escape - it's got Steve McQueen, and a badass young Charles Bronson - every minute of the film is amazing, and the tunneling they did... well... when it's life or death you gitter done. Compare that to risking your life for the commodes of some bratty puds at UVa and that's about the size of it...

Oh yeah, and there's a new group here on facebook for cleaning up the whole mess also known as UVa construction.... feel free to join up!

Z-forms, flow throughs, and other tools of the trade

(btw that little yellow thing is our multi gas monitor "sniffer" making certain no toxic waste is in the air...)

Twice our z-form shields collapsed. We had a ten foot unshielded dig under a steam tunnel, and a typically dry sewer line decided to rage during our replacement of the existing pipe creating a three foot deep soup of caca straight from the chemistry building. S*&! happens. When you're tying in to an existing sewer line, however, it may happen in the form of a river. And when it happens behind the UVa Chem building, you just hope that the undergrads remember to put their hazardous waste in the proper disposal bin... So fierce the raging river that our three inch pump made not a dent, and a four inch diesel line was required... All in a days work. We gotter' done and got outta there before four PM.

Well at least the 4" Godwin pump (see bottom right) is working and the sewage swamp is low enough to walk around safely.

Setting the pipe - Dan you are the man for getting under that steam tunnel - yes we use chemical detectors aka sniffers... yet it stinks, especially the pipe glues for PVC.

Whattup Harley - we got real flow :)