Event:2016/02/15 Building

Omni Building WG Monday February 15, 2016

who's here?

 * yar, robb

what has building wg accomplished in past 6 months?

 * south wall is almost finished
 * yar is so excited to move the bookshelves
 * bathroom works
 * panic bars

what work is currently in progress?

 * still need a panic bar on one outer shattuck door
 * mudding the lower south wall and painting both
 * yar: any planned or scheduled times people can help doing that?
 * no, it's too sensitive to schedule this. need availabilities to line up, need to not have fumes for big ballroom events
 * robb will probably spackle tonight & tuesday, then we can paint on wednesday or thursday
 * yar: how many person hours is spackling?
 * robb: i can get a layer on in a few to 6 hours. usually takes me into middle of the night, ahrd to say
 * electrical work on front door
 * disability access depends on this
 * permit expired - figure out what to do with that
 * matt is talking to ryan g about this
 * right now exit sign is same circuit as lights. do we need a new circuit? is conduit big enough? check the code? maybe run power off snack bar

what work needs to be done?

 * acoustic tile in the basement
 * west kitchen wall
 * drywall in the wheelchair bathroom
 * fire alarm bells - robb may have found a source
 * roof - need fencing to keep birds from pooping inside
 * passive air vent above la commune
 * robb & gerald are gonna install a circuit from first ballroom truss to the stage, for lighting
 * see what it would take to get a permit
 * if we reopen it for the door anyway, then we could tack this on too
 * lighting in the entrance hall
 * just need to lay boards / metal braces, and acquire fixtures
 * it has beams on the ceiling. you'd just need to tie those together. just put them vertically. a lot like the disco room
 * disco room floor tiling
 * painting high up in the entrance hall
 * hang flags / cloth / banners in ballroom for acoustics
 * yar: they should say black lives matter
 * robb has a bunch of vinyl
 * yar: this is a great job to give to a new volunteer
 * robb: heavier the better

what do we need from new volunteers?

 * spackling!!! (this week and next)
 * rat abatement!

rat abatement

 * we need to seal the damn walls
 * east kitchen wall
 * which is gonna take 2x4s
 * furnace room
 * smaller holes
 * hallway by buried seeds
 * upstairs kitchen underneath the counter
 * to the right of downstairs pantry door in FNB kitchen

kitchen

 * yar: if we had people ready to go.... what steps?
 * #1 buy 2x4s
 * we probably have enough drywall, although we may need purpleboard
 * fiberglass panels go over drywall on interior, it's instead of painting
 * we can skip the fiberglass for now and hang plastic over - drywall will still be an improvement
 * say we buy the 2x4s and purpleboard... then what?
 * robb: probably wednesday or thursday, maybe friday... find out days they're not cooking
 * how many hours would the whole project take? he's not sure. in the neighborhood of days, and that would be really powering through it.

lighting

 * robb's working on automating all the lights in building
 * someone's gonna start designing a grand chandelier for the center of the ballroom. found 2 or 3 chandeliers here that are smaller than the others but of the same style. might incorporate those.