| December 01 2009
CME’s Southern Tier Division is currently working on 3 major projects on 3 different college campuses in the Elmira and Ithaca areas.
The New Dormitory (Meier Hall) at Elmira College is nearly complete. CME’s Clifford Gould II provided full time Special Inspections at this project from July 2008 to April 2009. The New Dormitory, designed in Collegiate Gothic style to complement the existing campus, includes 61,000 gross square feet over 5 stories above grade and a partial basement. The steel framed structure incorporates load-bearing concrete block walls, a basement mat foundation, and gargoyles perched on the façade. CME’s scope of services included soil bearing grade approval, monitoring of proofrolling of subgrades, compaction testing of engineered fills, cast-in-place concrete batch plant and field testing, special inspections of formwork, reinforcing bar and placement methods, masonry special inspections including cold weather construction requirements and fabrication of test specimens for mortar cubes, grout prisms, and block prisms, structural steel examinations including UT testing and visual inspections by CME’s CWI staff. Other Special Inspections provided by CME included Spray-Applied fireproofing, including intumescent paint, anchorage pull testing, floor flatness and levelness testing, and moisture vapor transmission tests. The cast-in-place concrete testing started out full force, placing 771 cubic yards concrete for the basement mat foundation between 5:00 pm and 2:00 am on August 21, 2009. CME provided 6 field Technicians (1 in the Batch Plant) and cast 80 test cylinders during the overnight placement. ACI 214 Recommended Practice for Evaluation of Strength Test Results of Concrete confirms CME’s superior quality services with within-test variation to be Excellent to Very good for the 3 primary concrete mixes used on this project.
Client: Elmira College
Architect: QPK Design
Consulting Eng.: Sack & Associates
Special Inspector: CME Associates, Inc.
Resident Special Inspector: Clifford Gould II
Supervisor Special Insp.: Gordon Toleman, P.E.
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