Construction Observation at ATI

Hello everyone! I've been so incredibly busy the past few weeks. I've really gone head first into this whole new job thing. I've been up to York, PA about 5 times now to a place called Architectural Testing (something). They build full scale mock ups of buildings and test them for performance. I got to go up there several times to watch the construction of a full scale mock up of a building I'll be working on here in VA. It's pretty sweet. I'm not supposed to show pictures of what we're working on; it's supposed to be on the DL and I'm not supposed to show pictures of other jobs up there. However, there was a sweet test going on up there when I was there one day and since I know nothing about the project, here's a few photos of a dynamic rain test. I'll explain after the photos and video.









So what they do is spray a bunch of water at the mock up and start up an airplane propeller which blows about 70mph or so at the mock up. It was pretty awesome for the first 2-3 minutes and then it lost its coolness pretty quick.

I'm in my third week of the job and I love it! There's been a few issues with stuff around the apartment, but I've managed ways around most of them until they can be fixed. Living out in VA is a lot of fun too! I'm totally pumped for the 4th of July; I'm heading down the mall with a few people and hanging out all day and picnicking.

Also, as many of you probably heard, there was a horrible metro train crash earlier this week on the North East end of the red line. I live and work pretty much on the complete opposite side of the metro system from where the accident took place and I was actually up in York, PA all day that day. So, I'm totally fine and the few people I know here in town weren't anywhere close to it.

So, things are good and everyday seems to have some new adventure for me. Take it easy!