Comments on: San Diego Concrete Pour

By: Concrete Tester

Concrete Tester — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:59:44 +0000

So where are all the concrete cylinders? With this much concrete the project should have been flooded with samples.

By: Pryce

Pryce — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:59:51 +0000

do we really need 4000 slump tests?

By: guinness416

guinness416 — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:30:00 +0000

Ten foot thick raft slab? Oy!

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:22:00 +0000

Still not thick enough to prevent the Decepticons from detecting the AllSpark. Jusy sayin’.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:54:00 +0000

The project is the San Diego, BAYSIDE condos ($795,000 to $12,000,000.each condo, 282 total.)

The photo shows the southern half (half!) of the ten-foot-thick RAFT slab, which will support the 35 story tower.

By: Ingeniero

Ingeniero — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:38:00 +0000

It’s an impressive scheduling operation. Thirteen pump trucks are operating in this photo with quite a few others as backup. All the concrete mixers on site scares me. It still takes awhile to empty a mixer and you don’t want the mixers to wait too long or the batch will become useless. A thirty minute wait is too long if you want a quality batch.

I don’t get the numbers quoted above though. The current slab being poured looks to be about 150′x150′which is 2500SY. Assuming that it is a mat footing, it would have to be 4.5 yards thick to be a monolithic pour. Even if the whole building had a mat footing with an assumed area of 5000SY then the thickness would be 2.3 yards or almost 7 FT? Does that sound right for that type of footing?

By: Noelle

Noelle — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:34:00 +0000

Very interesting image! I’m interested in the project as well. Why was this method of pouring required?

By: Victor

Victor — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:13:00 +0000

I agree. Quite an impressive photo. What is the project? Just a massive slab of concrete?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:13:00 +0000

From what i understand a concrete truck holds 8 to 12 yards. So if the placed 11,500 yards they needed the 258 trucks to make roughly 4 trips each.

Very impressive photo though