Friday, July 27, 2007

Fire It Up

Let's get this steel bridge season started. The designs are already circulating through the e-mail and our new fearless leader will be scheduling our first design meeting in the next few weeks. We want to knock out the design as quickly as possible w/o overlooking any details. There are lots of options and problems still out there to consider and solve, we will be looking for everyone's input in the next month or so.

We will be moving to our new shop next Saturday morning and claiming all the space we can in the new labs. Also, some new equipment is in the budget for the beginning of this year so everyone be thinking about what we could use to improve our fabrication.

Dream Big, Think Outside the Box, Be Creative!







Don't do this, it won't work to well.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Initial Thoughts

Woooo, that's a tight envelope. Seems like it will be tough to do a beam this year.

Hmmm Barges.... My mind is teeming with construction possibilities.

Good luck getting any work done today.

2008 Rules

Finally:

2008 Rules

Let the mayhem ensue.

Monday, July 9, 2007

MIT on the Web

Check out MIT's new website. Lots of good pictures, videos (Love the construction practice hype, much better than our 4 person practices (team included!)) and a very nice recap of all the bridges at 2007 NSSBC. Great Job.

Link Here: http://web.mit.edu/srudolph/www/Events/events07.html#010

Also, apparently "Role up Number Thingies", a.k.a. measuring tapes, are standard issue deflection gauges up in New England.

Monday, July 2, 2007

2007 UMKC Video

Find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD_WxG2zqk0

Regional Construction was a little slow and a lot sloppy, but it got the job done.