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The state capitol building with its Roman Corinthian style architecture represents Oklahoma and Oklahoma City as its state capital. Much like a cathedral of a U. S. archdiocese; this is the mother house--much like the face of Oklahoma.
Recall so many times that we hosted relatives here from Texas, Kansas & California. They weren't impressed with our dome-less Roman Corinthian style capitol. The dome really put a crown that truly complemented that structure.
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Probably not as consistently as it is done here.Originally Posted by ljbab728
P180
AICCM
Walnut St Bridge
MAPS 1 - 3
Sidewalks
Recent ice storm cleanup
And the list goes on and on.
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What happened with the Walnut St. bridge? I am not familiar with that.
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And the Skydance bridge warping debacle, the bridge repair (welding) debacle, and the P180 crosswalks debacle, and .....
So yeah, other places *do* underestimate projects, but we seem to be stuck in a self-feedback-closed-loop in that we always think we know what we're doing, but we don't, and can't recognize that.
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Other places occasionally underestimate projects. Oklahoma seems to specialize in it.
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You're right, but I don't underestimate the expense that repairing marble, granite, stone, etc. It's a bad situation all-around. I actually really like your idea of making them work in a craphole, but the problem with that is that most of them are actually from a craphole. Then you're just making them feel right at home.
If we could just keep the building standing, mitigate the parking land mass that has really hurt surrounding neighborhoods, and still yet inflict pain when people come to 23rd and Lincoln, I'm all for it. My recommendation is a road diet and giant speed bumps on Lincoln Blvd that makes it impossible for big hemi pickups. Create a "truck route" that goes through the severely impoverished Capitol View hood. For those coming from the south, we'd have to get creative to find some blight. Maybe a new exit right at the AICC, a detour through JFK, and then come in on East 23rd.
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New suggestion for Oklahoma Capitol refurb: Another $125 million | NewsOK.com
Another $125 million would be available for the state Capitol repair and refurbishment project under a bill that passed a House committee on Wednesday.
The additional bonding authority would be in addition to $120 million in bond financing the Legislature has already authorized for the work.
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By 100%? Incredible...
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I would be fired twice before I could blink if I under estimated a project by 100%
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I can't believe they're estimating this much to REPAIR a capitol building that is much younger than many of its peers across the country.
It seems the politicians in OKC want their Taj Mahal, their palace, to do their bidding.
They need to re-define what's necessity and stick with the original price tag and/or find a new contractor(s).
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Construction to begin on Oklahoma Capitol repair, renovation
By: Tim Talley Associated Press March 28, 2016 0
OKLAHOMA CITY – It took three years and $1.5 million to build Oklahoma’s Capitol building a century ago. It will take at least six years and as much as $245 million to prepare the building for its next 100 years.
Plans and design work to repair and renovate the 452,000-square-foot building are almost complete and, beginning this summer, workers in hardhats will be as common in and around the historic building as lawmakers in suits and tourists in sportswear as work begins on an extensive project to restore and update the structure.
Construction crews will hit all corners of the six-level structure, from the depths of its basement – with its chipped and buckling terrazzo floor – to the top of its stately dome that was completed in 2002 – 85 years after the building was occupied.
“Every square inch of this building needs to be touched at some point,” said Trait Thompson, Capitol project manager for the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services.
Inside and out, workers will repair and replace the Capitol building’s aging infrastructure – updating plumbing, electrical and mechanical systems according to highly detailed plans and specifications drawn up by a team of experts who have spent 8,000 hours assessing the current state of the structure, Thompson said.
“We don’t want to do a project halfway. We want to do it right,” he said.
Throughout the project, the Capitol will remain open and continue to function as the seat of state government, an office building for hundreds of state workers and a tourist attraction visited by thousands of people each year.
“There’s going to be noise. There’s going to be dust. There’s going to be inconvenience,” Thompson said. But project organizers estimate keeping the building open and functioning during the repairs will save $7 million in relocation costs.
Construction of the state Capitol was launched July 20, 1914, when Oklahoma’s second governor, Lee Cruce, used a pick axe to break ground during a ceremony that historical photos show was attended by hundreds of people, some of whom traveled to the site in horse-drawn carriages.
The reinforced-concrete building was occupied in June 1917, just two months after the United States declared war on Germany and entered World War I. A planned dome that was part of the Capitol’s original design was shelved due to a lack of money and steel during the war.
“Running out of money is sort of the constant story of this building,” Thompson said. “At no time in the Capitol’s history has anything like this been attempted.”
The rehabilitation project was formally launched almost two years ago following legislative passage of a $120 million bond issue dedicated to Capitol repairs and renovation. Legislation authorizing another $125 million for the project has been approved by the House and is pending in the Senate.
When she signed the bill authorizing the spending two years ago, Gov. Mary Fallin decried what had become of the building.
“The disrepair it had fallen into was a black eye for the entire state,” she said then.
Beginning in July, between 30 and 40 workers are scheduled to begin repairing the Capitol’s exterior and its 200,000 square feet of stone facade in a project expected to last more than three years.
“You’ll see scaffolding go up,” Thompson said. “Every stone is assigned a number. Every window is assigned a number.”
The structure’s exterior is composed mainly of white limestone from Indiana with a base of Oklahoma pink granite originally quarried from an area near Tishomingo known as the Ten-Acre Rock.
Since 2011, barricades have cordoned off the south side of the Capitol to prevent visitors from climbing the steps leading to the south portico after chunks of mortar and pieces of limestone began falling from the building facade.
During the project, 477 of the Capitol’s 512 windows will be restored, 240 cracked and damaged stones will be repaired or replaced and 21 miles of mortar joints will be repaired, Thompson said. Interior renovations begin in September; workers will also install emergency power generators.
Details of the project
COST: Estimated at $245 million; $120 million in bonds authorized by Oklahoma Legislature and another $125 million bond issue pending.
DURATION: Exterior work to begin in July and taken an estimated 3.5 years; interior work to begin in September and take an estimated six years.
EXTERIOR REPAIRS
• Eleven levels of scaffolding to be erected.
• Repair 21 miles of mortar joints.
• Repair 240 cracked or damaged stones.
• Restore 477 windows.
• Restore 43,000 pounds of cast iron.
• Expand exterior loading dock.
• Replace exterior doors.
• Partial roof replacement.
• Repair exterior stairs, plazas, sidewalks and battlements.
• Repair east tunnel.
INTERIOR REPAIRS
• Replace 3,600 linear feet of plumbing piping.
• Replace 4.55 miles of heating, ventilation and air conditioning piping.
• Replace 13,500 of ductwork.
• Remove 460 tons of hazardous asbestos-containing material.
• Remove 65 miles of abandoned cabling.
• Add 420 tons of cooling to provide air conditioning to the Capitol rotunda.
• Add natural gas service to power new emergency generators.
• Add of a new visitor entrance on the southeast corner of the building.
• Replace and enhance fire alarms and add fire suppression systems.
• Add stairwells at dead-end corridors to address fire code issues and improve vertical access.
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Senate approves $125M in bonds for Oklahoma Capitol repairs
By: Sean Murphy Associated Press May 26, 2016
OKLAHOMA CITY – Renovations to the Oklahoma Capitol will reach $245 million after the Senate gave final approval on Thursday to a second bond issue to complete repairs to the nearly 100-year-old building.
The bill, approved on a 30-16 vote, authorizes the sale of $125 million in bonds. The measure heads to Gov. Mary Fallin, who has publicly supported the project and is expected to sign it.
Senate President Pro Tem Brian Bingman, who sponsored the bill, said maintenance to the state’s landmark building was an appropriate use of bonds.
The Legislature approved a $120 million bond issue to begin repairs in 2014, but Bingman, R-Sapulpa, stressed the importance of having all the funding lined up so the project doesn’t face costly delays.
“The funds for this building won’t be issued until they are needed,” Bingman said. “These bonds will be issued in future years.”
He assured members that previously discussed plans for a reflecting pool, stone archway, and multi-level parking garage were not included in the final plans.
The first bond issue was enough to excavate the ground floor, create a new basement-level public entrance, replace the electrical, plumbing and mechanical systems in the basement and the building’s core, and repair its crumbling exterior. But project officials say an additional $95 million is needed to extend renovations into the wings of the building, expand a loading dock, add stairwells to dead-end corridors and make other interior repairs. Another $27.5 million is needed for exterior work.
Manhattan Construction was selected for the interior renovations and JE Dunn Construction for the exterior work.
State Sen. J.J. Dossett said he believes the Capitol renovations are worthwhile, but that he couldn’t support the project at a time when funding is being cut for public schools.
“Once we can keep our schools open five days a week and education is fully funded, then I say yes,” said Dossett, D-Sperry.
Work on the building is expected to resume this summer.
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Just a little Photoshop I did to the Capitol area.
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Renovation of state Capitol exterior scheduled to begin
By: Tim Talley Associated Press July 21, 2016
OKLAHOMA CITY – An elaborate scaffolding system has started to go up on the north side of Oklahoma’s nearly 100-year-old state Capitol, signaling that a multi-year project to renovate and update the building for its next century is getting underway.
“We are fixing to start major operations on the exterior of the building,” Trait Thompson, project manager for the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services, said Thursday during a presentation with Josh Martin of JE Dunn Construction.
The two briefed Capitol employees on the scope of the work and how they may be inconvenienced during the three-year, $52 million project. Project organizers estimate that keeping the 452,000-square-foot building open and functioning during the repairs will save $7 million in relocations costs.
“There will be times that it is intrusive,” Thompson said.
Among other things, all of the Capitol’s more than 500 exterior windows and doors will be removed, repaired and updated, and 21 miles of mortar joints will be repaired.
“We will pick out literally every inch of grout,” said Martin, whose company has performed similar projects on the Kansas and Minnesota state Capitol buildings. “It’s a time-consuming process.”
Martin said as many as 55 highly skilled workers will be needed to repair the Capitol’s exterior and its 200,000 square feet of stone facade. Many weathered and cracked stones will be replaced, he said. The structure’s exterior is composed mainly of white limestone from Indiana with a base of Oklahoma pink granite originally quarried from an area near Tishomingo known as the Ten-Acre Rock.
The repair work is the first phase of a $245 million effort to repair, renovate and update the state Capitol inside and out, which will start later this year and last about six years. Interior work will include extensive repairs, as well as replacing aging infrastructure and updating plumbing, electrical and mechanical systems. Workers will also provide natural gas service to power new emergency generators and add stairwells at dead-end corridors to address fire code issues.
Construction of the state Capitol was launched July 20, 1914, when Oklahoma’s second governor, Lee Cruce, used a pickaxe to break ground during a ceremony that historical photos show was attended by hundreds of people, some of whom traveled to the site in horse-drawn carriages.
The reinforced-concrete building was occupied in June 1917, just two months after the United States declared war on Germany and entered World War I. A $21 million dome was completed in 2002 – 85 years after original plans for a Capitol dome were shelved due to a lack of money and steel during the war.
Since 2011, barricades have cordoned off the south side of the Capitol to prevent visitors from climbing the steps leading to the south portico after chunks of mortar and pieces of limestone began falling from the building facade.
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Had to do some work this morning on the lighting for the dome.
Snapped this pic with my phone looking north up Lincoln and wanted to share. Enjoy.
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Great shot. What phone are you shooting with?
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Samsung Galaxy S5 Active
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Awesome! It's like our own mini Brasilia[QUOTE=StuckInTheCapitol825;990471]
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Oklahoma Capitol restoration marks exterior work milestone
By: Tim Talley Associated Press May 31, 2017
OKLAHOMA CITY – Restoration of Oklahoma’s century-old state Capitol reached a milestone Wednesday as workers dismantled scaffolding from the first portion of the building’s stone facade to undergo extensive repair and cleaning.
The Capitol’s northwest corner sparkled in the warm spring sunshine as officials of JE Dunn Construction unveiled the result of their efforts to restore the building’s original cast-iron windows, Indiana limestone facade and Oklahoma pink granite base.
The building’s fresh, new look is “the result of thousands of hours of painstaking labor by some of the finest tradespeople in the country,” said Preston Doerflinger, Gov. Mary Fallin’s secretary of finance and director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.
“The result is a water-tight exterior that will serve the historic building for years to come,” Doerflinger said.
The work is the first completed phase of a $245 million effort to repair, renovate and update the state Capitol inside and out. Scaffolding was erected along the building’s northwestern and northern walls last summer and the $52 million exterior renovation project is expected to continue until early 2019.
The detailed work on the Capitol’s 200,000-square-foot stone facade has involved repairing or replacing 64 damaged limestone blocks, replacing worn mortar joints, repairing the building’s antiquated guttering system and renovating dozens of windows with new glass.
“They look as good as the day they were installed a century ago,” Doerflinger said.
Scaffolding removed from the building’s northwestern corner will be erected on the building’s southeastern side as the renovation project continues, said Mark Maska, project superintendent for JE Dunn Construction.
Manhattan Construction is in charge of renovating the interior of the 452,000-square-foot Capitol. That work is expected to continue until 2022.
Construction of the state Capitol was launched on July 20, 1914, when Oklahoma’s second governor, Lee Cruce, used a pickax to break ground during a ceremony that historical photos show was attended by hundreds of people, some of whom traveled to the site in horse-drawn carriages.
The reinforced-concrete building was occupied in June 1917, just two months after the United States declared war on Germany and entered World War I. A $21 million dome was completed in 2002 – 85 years after original plans for a Capitol dome were shelved due to a lack of money and steel during the war.
Since 2011, barricades have cordoned off the south side of the Capitol to prevent visitors from climbing the steps leading to the south portico after chunks of mortar and pieces of limestone began falling from the building’s facade.
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Get ready for a new large tower crane to be in the OKC sky. Going up at the capitol this weekend.
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For what reason?
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As part of the renovation project. For work on the dome.
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