(upbeat music)
- Today we're going to visit a construction site.
When you see construction, it means
our community is growing.
New buildings provide shelter.
Here they are building a parking lot
and a baseball stadium.
Before we go on to the site,
let's go into the office to learn
how they plan for construction before they build.
Hi.
- [Tim] Oh, good morning, how are you?
- Good morning.
- Tim Sterling.
- Penny.
- Hi Penny, nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you too.
- Well welcome.
I'm glad you guys could join us this morning.
Climb right up there, there you go.
Okay, so we're gonna talk about construction
and construction starts with an idea.
Well you've heard of the Florida Marlins, right?
- [Kids] Yeah.
- Okay so they're getting a brand new stadium right?
- [Kids] Yeah.
- So in order to the baseball game everyone needs
a place to park right?
- [Kids] Yes.
- Somebody had that idea and what happened then,
is they hired architects and engineers to draw
the drawings or the plans for the stadium
and the parking garages.
- So is the baseball field going to be here or there?
- [Tim] So what's going to happen,
what you're looking at are elevations,
so these are the sides of the parking garages
and in between the parking garages is the stadium.
So if you look up here at this drawing,
you can see there are two parking garages on the north side
and two parking garages on the south side
and the big building that's in the middle is the stadium.
Guess how many parking spaces will be in this stadium.
- [Kids] 100.
- Oh, more than that.
- [Girl] 1,000.
- More than a thousand.
- More than a thousand ?
- 105.
- When we get done with the parking garages
and the parking lots, there'll be 6,000 spaces.
- [Kids] Wow.
- Can you imagine 6,000 cars here?
Okay, we've looked at the planning
now are you guys ready to see the construction?
- [All kids] Yes!
- Alright, let's go.
- [Boy] I'm running.
- I'd like to introduce you to Joe Franco
who's one of our superintendents who's looking
after the project.
- Good morning everybody, how you doing?
welcome to the Suffolk construction
here at the Marlin's ballpark.
Before we get started, I wanna give
you guys some safety equipment.
Try that on and see if it fits.
Does anybody know why we have to have a hard hat?
Go ahead, why?
- [Boy] Cause if something's in the way that's really small
in case we bump our heads.
- In case you bump your head.
Now, we're gonna hand out some safety vests.
Similar to what I'm wearing.
And these safety vests we put them on,
if you notice the bright colors,
so people can see us.
Some other equipment that I have on
that you guys aren't wearing today,
is I have what they call personal full protection.
And then I take this extra hook right here
and when I'm hooked on to something
like this, I can't fall down.
This is gonna stop me from falling.
When would I use this ?
- [Boy] When you're up really high.
- When I'm up in the air, when I'm working high, exactly.
How about if I was digging a hole?
- [Boy] Yeah.
- Yeah, right cause it would keep me
from falling into the hole.
So the other thing I have on is my work boots.
I'm standing on rocks and metal
I might step on a nail and these work boots
help keep us safe.
- [Tim] The next thing we're gonna do is we're gonna over
and take a look at a vibratory roller.
- Joe Bran, you got a copy?
- I can come back.
- Yeah, hey can I get you over to the roller
we got a group here, we wanna start
this roller up for them please.
- Yeah 10- 4.
- [Tim] Now when we start this machine
that drum will shake, in addition to rolling
it's gonna shake and what that's going to do
is compact the soil so that we can drive on it.
Why don't you guys climb up there,
and you can stand by the operator seat
so you can see what the operator sees
when he runs the machine.
There ya go, fantastic.
Okay.
- [Penny] Put on your seatbelt.
- [Tim] Yeah, safety belt, just like in a car.
So here we go.
(engine roars)
See how it rolls?
- [Girl] It has big wheels.
- [Tim] Right, it has big wheels
and you can go walk on it now, it's nice and hard.
Thank you for the demonstration.
The next thing we're gonna learn is how to hammer nails.
And Joe is gonna show us how to do that safely.
And Joe you wanna talk to us
about what we need to have here?
- First thing I'd like to do is get you guys
a hammer holder.
So maybe you can help him put this on.
Here a set of googles and let's put these on.
Okay so right now we got our goggles.
The next thing we're gonna need is a hammer.
Can anybody help me decide
to use a hammer like this?
- [All kids] No.
- [Joe] No I don't think so, that's for pegs.
How about this one here, is this a good one?
- [All kids] No.
- No that's for metal right, that's not for wood.
How about these hammers ?
- [All kids] Yes.
- Alright, so everybody pick a hammer.
I got a hammer too.
So the most important thing that we have to remember
when we're hammering a nail is to get the nail set
and then move our fingers away.
And then I'm just gonna hit the nail,
nice and easy.
I don't have to hit it so hard
and make it go away in one shot.
And I'm just gonna keep on hitting it
til it goes all the way in.
Think you can do that?
- [All kids] Yes.
- Anybody wanna try it ?
- [Girl] Me!
- That's a nail.
(hammering)
- [Tim] Very good, there you go,
you just take that and straighten it out, very good.
(hammering)
- Let's go over here and we're gonna do some digging.
Okay I want you to take your shovel
push it into the pile of rock
and I want you to take your dirt and move it over here.
- [Penny] That's a little bit, that's a lot.
- [Tim] Keep digging a lot.
- [Penny] How tall do you think it is now?
It's tall, do you think it's almost as tall as your knees?
It's definitely up to your shin.
- [Tim] While we're digging we'll make a little bigger pile.
- [Penny] So lets make a bigger pile,
let's make it taller and big.
It's getting taller.
Come over and let's measure it next to your feet.
Wow, it's getting taller, it's almost
all the way up to your knee.
- Okay here we go, that's good for the digging,
you guys did a great job.
Look at that big pile that you made.
- [Boy] What's that?
- [Tim] That's a big truck in there, you see that?
Now if you remember on the other side
where they were moving all the dirt,
remember that from this morning?
- [All kids] Uh huh.
- [Tim] This side used to look just like that.
Now we're actually building the building
up from the foundations.
That surface those guys are making up there
is where you're gonna drive your car
when you come to the Marlins, Florida Marlins ball game.
And what that crane's doing
is that's helping these guys lift those forms.
And that is what they use to tilt these walls into place.
So on these walls, you see those
orange braces that are coming down?
Those brace the walls to hold the building together.
- Thank you very much for showing us your construction site.
- You're very welcome, happy to have you.
It was nice to meet all of you,
you did a great job today.
- [Girl] Thank you.
- Very good workers, glad to have you.
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