Aloft Hotel

[jbrown84]

Look at that glorious streetwall!

[UnFrSaKn]

Oklahoma City (October 02 2012) - a set on Flickr

Oklahoma City Panoramas (October 02 2012) - a set on Flickr

[TechArch]

The signage on LEVEL looks good. Great pictures!

[betts]

They're putting steel beams up on the top floor of Aloft now. I wonder how soon they'll be putting the roof on. The framework for the building looks great, but the roof is going to dramatically change our neighborhood "skyline".

[Praedura]

Here is another angle of that awesome streetwall:

Yikes, the neighborhood has been overrun by a bicycle gang. Somebody call the cops!

[BoulderSooner]

We had a blast bullying drivers, I mean ride our bikes, around OKC. :-)

break any traffic laws?

[Dubya61]

Not quite.

Inductive loops, which are what these sensors are, detect a change in induction capacity. A conductive, metallic object will increase this capacity by adding improving electrical flow potential within the core's loop. Any object that then increases capacity, can cause the sensor to trigger.

The trick to bicycles is that while the sensor is always "checking" for increased induction, it oftentimes isn't set sensitive enough. Since the loop is always "live" there has to be a threshold set for the light to trigger.

Bicycles don't add much to the loop's core. Just not enough metal in them. To increase your chances of increasing the induction capacity sufficient for a sensor trigger, put your bike either on the line itself (less distance/resistance for the core) or angle your bike so that it transects both the vertical and horizontal cut in the pavement (where the wire is). This is your best chance at leveraging the bike's 'core enhancing properties', if you will.

Crossing the right-angle corner is also how most of these sensors are tested. They have a measured metallic object that is set on the ground over the corner of the loop. If it triggers the sensor, then the loop is sensitive enough. I haven't seen it done, but I assume they same method could be used to calibrate the sensitivity the other way (trigger on less inductive capacity).

And here I always thought it was the flux capacitor.

[disinfected]

I've been lied to all these years.

[Pete]

The posts about bikes have been moved to a new thread here:

Urban Cycling

[jbrown84]

The signage on LEVEL looks good. Great pictures!

Yeah it's a great modern take on the old rooftop neon signs. Does it light up?

[betts]

Yeah it's a great modern take on the old rooftop neon signs. Does it light up?

It is backlit. I wish it would light up.

[Doug Loudenback]

Here are a few pics I took yesterday, 10/11/2012, of ALoft's progress. Click on any photo for a larger image.

[Pete]

Thanks Doug! We've missed you.


FYI, the framing you see is for the top floor. The funky roof design will be on top of that, so the structure hasn't quite topped out yet.

[Doug Loudenback]

Thanks, Pete. It's becoming harder for me to get around and take photos of the city, enjoy it as much as I do. I've got a few more to post of a building around 12th & Shartel that has probably been posted about here, but which was new to me, as well as a few skyline shots from the east side looking toward downtown. I'm going to drive by the Shartel development shortly to see if the workmen will tell me what's going on there.

[Rover]

I was down by there just a little while ago. Driving up from the north of it, the little extra heighth seems to add some needed vertical mass to the area and visually starts to extend downtown and helps fill the gap over to the med center. It is amazing what just a few more feet does to change perceptions. Coming back from btown and the south it was also significant.

[OKCisOK4me]

Thanks Doug! Looks great!

[Just the facts]

Thanks Doug! We've missed you.


FYI, the framing you see is for the top floor. The funky roof design will be on top of that, so the structure hasn't quite topped out yet.

How tall does something have to be to warrant the traditional Christmas Tree on top?

[Rover]

How tall does something have to be to warrant the traditional Christmas Tree on top?

Not a height thing, but it signifies the topping off.

[Just the facts]

Not a height thing, but it signifies the topping off.

Yes, so will they do one with the Aloft to signify it has topped out?

[ljbab728]

Yes, so will they do one with the Aloft to signify it has topped out?

Well, Christmas is getting close so that would be very appropritate.

[UnFrSaKn]

October 16 2012

Oklahoma City (October 16 2012) - a set on Flickr

A few photos of Aloft

[Anonymous.]

Updated photo of progress (Today, Nov. 13)







Shot with both Hotel cranes in frame.

[ourulz2000]

Progress.

[Pete]

Aloft today (courtesy of Sid):

[HangryHippo]

They are moving right along. Great to see.