This week, the first precast concrete and brick facade panels were installed on Building 4. The panels are manufactured from clay brick, architectural concrete, and structural concrete at an offsite facility and can be erected much more quickly than hand-set brick over framed and sheathed walls. This was a test installation for architectural review, and the rest of the panels will begin to be installed in about a month.
Stacks for four manholes connect to a precast grease interceptor that has been set North of Building 9.
Fine grading at Building 1 in preparation for the slab on grade concrete.
The methane barrier under the slab on grade is installed at Building 1.
Building 9 has risen to level 3 on the North side facing Building 1.
Underground work continues at the Building 8 electrical rooms.
Fine grading in the second slab on grade pour area at Building 8.
Future data room in Building 8 level 1.
Fine grading in Building 7 in preparation for its slab on grade.
Elevators in the Building 7 lobby.
Rebar and edge forming in place for the first Building 7 slab on grade pour.
Shoring in Building 6 for level 3.
Shoring for level 3 in Building 6, along Jefferson Boulevard.
Concrete had to be chipped out at this stair shaft in Building 6 due to incorrectly-installed rebar. It will be re-poured shortly.
View of Jefferson Boulevard from Building 6 level 2.
A bridge at level 3 spans the gap between the East and West courtyards in Building 6.
Closer view of chipped concrete for a rebar repair at a Building 6 stairwell.
Central plaza from Building 6 level 2.
Building 4 south facade from Building 6 level 2.
Building 4 south facade, where the first precast brick panels will be installed tomorrow.
The old Fire Station No. 15 building has been encased in scaffolding and a tent while the exterior pain, which contains asbestos, is removed.
Buildings 6 and 4 from across Jefferson Boulevard early in the morning.
A crane lifts the first precast brick panel of the USC Village project into place at the residential entrance to Building 4.
A closer look at the first brick panel.
Meanwhile, concrete is placed on Building 6 level 3.
Building 6 concrete pump with Building 4 and its tower crane in the background.
The tower crane prepares to lift a shear wall form on Building 6 next to the courtyard.
Finishers begin work on Building 6 level 3’s freshly poured concrete.
Corner of Building 6 level 3, looking toward campus.
The old Fire Station No. 3 in its tent and Building 8, where level 2 is beginning to be formed.
The central plaza and Building 9 from Building 6 level 3.
Building 4, now formed through the roof, from Building 6 level 3.
The first precast panel is welded into place, against steel embeds in the concrete shear wall.
View of another precast panel sitting face down on a flatbed truck.
End view of a precast panel showing the thickness of the “thin brick” face. The brick is normal clay brick, in a tile thickness. It’s laid into a mold by hand, then structural concrete is poured behind it to form the wall panel.
Half bricks are used at the edge of the panels to provide articulation at the joints between panels.
Four precast arch panels wait to be unloaded from the flatbed trucks that shipped them from the plant in Mexico.
Building 6 concrete pour from Building 4.
View of the first precast panel from along the southern face of Building 4.
Installation of the first precast panel is complete.
A precast arch panel is lifted into place.
The third single arch panel is lifted into place. Each arch panel is 12 feet wide. Additional precast pieces will form capitals connecting to each of the cast-in-place round columns beneath the arches.
Arched opening formed by the first two precast panels at the Building 4 residential lobby entrance.
Looking out through the arches from the Building 4 residential lobby.
The metal stud line behind the arches will be the top of the storefront window glazing.
A closer look at the arch shape over the Building 4 residential lobby entrance.
Across from the kitchen area in Building 4, the site office for Coreslab Structures is the on-site base for the precast panel team.
Footings and wall rebar for the Building 4 dining hall.
Column and wall formwork is going up for the Dining Hall.
Back of the precast arches from the Building 4 residential lobby.
Future food court in Building 4.
Steel embeds to be placed in the structural concrete.
Fine grading continues at Building 7.
Building 7 is ready for its first slab on grade pour.
Rebar and edge forming at a step in the Building 7 ground floor slab.
Fine grading over the methane barrier at the Building 7 electrical rooms.
Building 4 from the central plaza.
Precast panel installation continues.
A closer look at the first few precast brick panels.
The arched opening at the Building 4 residential lobby entrance.
These precast arch panels will be repeated around most of Building 4 at level 1, in front of storefront glazing.
Looking up along the newly-installed facade.
The first batch of panels is complete; second-floor panels are next, tomorrow.
A precast brick panel is lifted from its truck.
The first second-floor panel is lifted into place. This is the most intricate precast panel on the project.
One side of the Building 4 dining hall is now enclosed.
Looking out the tracery in the intricate panels on Building 4 level 2.
Detail of the triple-arch tracery.
A single window. The arches will frame the view out from level 2 in this building, the future honors college.
A row of intricate facade panels from Building 4 level 2.
Each bedroom along this stretch will have 1-2 of these windows.
Building 4 level 2 corridor.
Building 4 upper courtyard, with the roof level now formed up.
Cantilever slab above a future storefront at a study room that opens to the upper courtyard in Building 4.
Looking out toward the Building 9 pavilion from next to the future tower at Building 4.
View of the central plaza from Building 4 level 2.
The Building 4 roof is ready to be poured early next week.
Building 4 across the upper courtyard at the roof, looking toward the Building 9 tower crane.
Two levels of precast brick panels out of five.
Methane barrier is installed at the second area of Building 7.
Freshly-poured slab on grade in Building 7.
Building 4 from the central plaza.
Building 4 through the level 2 shoring at Building 8.
Building 8 is almost ready for its second section of slab on grade.
Building 8 shear wall.
Parking pavilion at the future Trader Joe’s storefront in Building 9.
Future Trader Joe’s in Building 9.
The Building 9 tower crane currently penetrates the underground parking and first and second floor slabs.
Trenching at the perimeter of Building 9 in preparation for construction of corbels to support precast brick panels.
Underground utility work north of Building 9.
The DWP yard in Building 1 will handle most of the utility connections for the entire village.
Edge forming and rebar are in place for the first slab on grade pour at Building 1.
Building 1 prepares to rise across from the new Fire Station No. 15 on the site of the former Wendy’s fast food restaurant.
Arcade at a future retail space in Building 4.
Reshores in the tall future retail space along Jefferson Boulevard in Building 6.
The initial precast panel installation from the southern corner of the site.
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