Sheedy crane apprentice Ernie Mejia attaches rigging to the steel members.
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Hogan Edelberg (left) and Blake Sanborn (right) talk with program administrator Leslie Pritchett (center) while they wait to take delivery of vertical trusses that will become benches on Treasure Island’s waterfront promenade.
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A 90-ton Sheedy crane was on-site to lift all the scrap steel elements on to awardees’ flatbed trucks.
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Designer Lauren Stahl of CMG Landscape Architecture is surrounded in a sea of steel as she photographs eyebars being loaded on to a truck for her firm’s project.
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Awardees’ flatbed trucks line Burma Road in Oakland as they wait to be called to the yard for steel loading.
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A crane’s-eye view of the steel loading
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Laney College engineering student Thomas Greathouse applied for and was awarded steel to build a large sundial that will be displayed on the Laney campus.
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Laney College Welding Instructor Liisa Pine Schoonmaker, who is advising engineering student awardee Thomas Greathouse, picks up an eyebar and a diagonal truss.
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A Sheedy crane crew works the loading of the steel pieces, some of which weigh up to 12 tons.
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In addition to steel members, several of the old East Span warning lights were awarded to artists for their proposed works.
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Once protective paint is removed from the bridge elements, a patina of rust is quick to develop.
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San Francisco artist Tom Loughlin takes a good look at some of the steel he will be working with to create a sound and light sculpture for Treasure Island.
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Oakland Museum Director Lori Fogarty was on-site to recognize this important milestone in the Bay Bridge Steel Program.
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Scrap steel from the demolition of the historic East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was picked up late last week by selected artists, architects and designers for repurposing into public art projects. The innovative Bay Bridge Steel Program, created in response to significant public interest from Bay Area creative communities to make steel from the dismantled bridge available for repurposing and reuse, is being administered by the Oakland Museum of California under the direction of MTC and its Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) offshoot, along with MTC/BATA’s partners on the Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee.