Life has been crazy for the last few months but work has gone very well. Since I last posted my company transfered me to a military base in Virginia where I'm working on a headquarters building. I've had the opportunity to do a number of different jobs in the couple of months I've been there. Working on getting the backup generator lifted into the generator enclosure was a highlight. We're studying rigging and lifting in class right now and watching a crew of professionals lift a 15 ton generator 30' in the air and land it with an inch of its final location was impressive.
I've also gotten a chance to basically construct the two of the building's electrical closets by myself. Unfortunately the job is all MC and the customer wants a very orderly appearance. I ended up spending a month in the ground floor closet hanging transformers, mounting panels, setting up cross mounted strut and hanging cable tray to run the MC from the place it comes into the closet to the appropriate panel. Then I got to start trying to relabel, dress, and land the circuits. It would have been easier to mount a trough on the wall and bring the circuits down in pipe but my forman wanted the circuits landed directly. It took a long time but I'm really proud of how well the closets turned out. I'd take a picture but I'm pretty sure the security folks on base would frown on pictures of their building being posted on the internet.
Speaking of security, I currently find myself on my company's security team. I've spent the last few weeks pulling a huge number of cables to each secured door in the building, mounting security panels and hanging cameras outside of the building. I've gotten a chance to spend some time pulling fiber optic cable which is pretty cool. We have one more floor worth of wire to pull, then the termination begins!
Expect a bit less time between posts from now on...
