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Baystate Children's Hospital Specialty Center (first floor) in the early morning light (sun shown was on day 3)
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Installation Day 1 - June 11, 2014
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Man lift arrives by truck & is unloaded and
driven into place. Operating instructions are given.
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Hole locations for wall anchors are measured from sculptor's dimensioned drawings.
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locations for wall anchors are double checked with templates provided
by the fabricator (Amaral) and based on the actual bracket locations as
attached to the sculpture. Rain ended day one early.
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Installation Day 2 - June 12, 2014
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Bill Plage and Greg Wolff of Hartford Fine Art & Framing up on the
lift
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Drilling
the holes in the hollow core
brick
Blowing out the brick dust
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Inserting
the
inserts
Bill and Greg ready for the epoxy stage
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Inserting
the
epoxy
Inserting the threaded rods into the epoxy.
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Day 2 job is completed before the rain came.
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| Installation Day 3 - June 16, 2014
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The trucking company arrives early with the sculpture and parks in the back awaiting the crane.
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The boom truck (crane) arrives and sets up the out riggers.
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| The truck with the sculpture moves into place and slides back the accordion roof to expose the wrapped sculpture. |
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| After the roof slides back, the rigger attaches the sling to the sculpture and lifts the east wall sculpture off the truck.
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The wrapped east wall sculpture is put on the ground
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The wrapped south wall sculpture is lifted off the truch
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Carla Santia carefully
unwrapping the
sculptures.
The unwrapped sculptures ready for lifting
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Attaching the wall brackets - 18 points of attachment for the sculpture.
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Rigging the east wall sculpture to be ready for lifting.
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Our
rigger Keith
Andrews
Our crane operator Keith Murphy
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Lifting the east wall sculpture to the wall - the back of the sculpture with its stiffener plates is painted to match the brick.
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Bolting the sculpture to the wall brackets
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Lifting the south wall sculpture to the wall. Attaching the sculpture to the wall..
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Lifting
the center sculpture.
Connecting the center sculpture to each side.
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Our install crew: Carla Santia, Greg Wolff, Bill Plage, Keith Murphy (crane operator), Keith Andrews (rigger)
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more installed sculpture photos
fabrication progress photos
drawings of the production sequence
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| CREDITS |
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Contact |
Carla Santia & Associates
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Agawam, MA
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Art Constultant and project coordinator
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Carla Santia
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Amaral Custom Fabrications, Inc.
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Bristol, RI
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Sculpture Fabrication
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Paul Amaral
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Steffian Bradley Architects
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Enfield, CT
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Engineering coordination
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Derek Noble
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BVH Integrated Services
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Bloomfield, CT
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Structural engineering
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John Beauregard
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Hartford Fine Art & Framing
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East Hartford, CT
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Installation |
Bill Plage
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A-Quick Pick Crane & Rigging
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Derby, CT
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Crane services
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Mark Robinson
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North Eastern Water Jet, Inc.
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Amsterdam, NY
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Aluminum cutting
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Dave Belfonce
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Outlaw Trucking
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Bristol, RI
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Sculpture shipping
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Robert Zuckerman
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Peter W. Michel, Sculptor
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Fayetteville, NY
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Sculpture design & coordination
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Peter Michel
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