Event:2016/02/15 Building

Omni Building WG Monday February 15, 2016

who's here?

• yar, robb

volunteer info

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.