Photos: Eyes on the sky at South Waterfront project

By: Sam Tenney//August 29, 2017//

Photos: Eyes on the sky at South Waterfront project

Sam Tenney//August 29, 2017//

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The normally bustling OHSU Center for Health and Healing South project in Portland’s South Waterfront District was much quieter than usual on Aug. 21, when Hoffman Construction mostly shut down the site for the day due to safety and material delivery concerns brought about by the solar eclipse.

A crew of about 15 workers were the only tradespeople on site at the two-building project. They were brought in to stress concrete that was poured the previous Thursday and jump concrete forms on the Rood Family Pavilion building, which will include parking and patient guest housing. The critical path work prevented the project team from losing a week on the schedule.

The site was cleared at around 10 a.m. as the eclipse began. Crews broke for an early lunch, and others from the project’s co-location office on site wandered outside to take in the event.

Oregon Electric Group employees, from left, Kameron Manyrath, Javier Acosta, and Josh Currie take a break to view the solar eclipse.

Alvin Ellis, a carpenter with Local 1503 and employee of Hoffman Structures, moved pieces of edge form into place.

Chuck Bilyeau, a job service field superintendent with Hoffman Structures, sets anchors for rail supports.

Crews with Hoffman Structures strip forms from the building's ninth floor. — Crews with Hoffman Structures strip forms from the building’s ninth floor.

The Rood Family Paviliion building will consist of a five-story patient guest house above a six-story parking garage.

The 15-story, steel-framed health care facility, pictured at background left, is slated to be topped out this week. Both buildings are slated to open next summer.

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