Show U Update On Un Pres Presidents President's dents dent's Home HOIlle by Teague Eskelsen U U. Tech Student Nineteen Building Construction s students feel they have been the losers in a which had caused them to tobe tobe tobe be pulled off the construction of President Orville D. D Carnahan's house Pat Evans pr president of U. U Tech Student Homebuilders Association Association Association tion said Students shouldn't have had to take the initiative to say Look what youve you've done to us We care about our education Pat was voicing the feelings of all the students who feel their educational building experience should have included their seeing the house constructed from foundation to completion John Alley a student in the class said We just started framing yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- 83 8 Were We're a whole quarter quarter quarter ter behind Were We're not going to experience experience experience the education of other building construction students They're excited because they've seen their houses go from foundation to completion Well We'll never see that The foundation on the square foot house located 2138 West South was halted because of a disagreement disagreement disagreement dis dis- dis- dis agreement on structure George Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son a Utah Tech architectural technology technology technology tech tech- instructor and the architect for the house said the conflict was one over strategy since he advocates the fast track method Ross Dean instructor of the Building Build Build- ing Construction class thinks the fast track method is more expensive When you dont don't know what's on the bottom you cant can't anticipate what's going on top If we ve could it would have kept us from making mistakes Dean said the first two pages of plans for the foundation were received on Sept 13 1982 Construction for fall quarter began on Sept 27 These plans did not include detail according according according accord accord- ing to Dean Since the building construction construction construction con con- project home is built on a three quarter basis the foundation had to be poured the poured the first term The blue print containing final number specifications were not available from Johnson until Feb 16 Dean said The final detail plan was received by the bythe the class and their instructor on Feb 23 after students confronted Johnson and demanded the final detail blueprints they said In the meantime the patio h had d been poured Dean said he made the decision decision decision deci deci- sion based on his experience and knowledge to o pour it in the way he thought it should be since there was waso no o de detail ail number on the blue blu print Acco According ding to Dean a blue print dra drawing drawing draw draw- wing w- w ing has the page number with a detail number This page which shows specifics specifics specifics of that of-that that detail number was not available until Feb 23 five months after the patio was initially poured Johnson the building was halted because some of the work vork was done wrong and he wanted it to tobe tobe tobe be done over again Dean and the students students students stu stu- dents say the errors errors' occurred because detail plans were not available until Fe Feb 23 Dan Bennett another student student stu stu- stu- stu dent said We Ve had plans but we needed specifics Were We're willing to take the blame for mistakes made But if we would have had specifics a lot could have been avoided 3 |