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48 SEPTEMBER 2016 COATINGSPROMAG.COM rooms. ey worked in various stages throughout the project, but once they were done with a room, another trade came right in, protected the newly laid floor with a cardboard cover, and moved onto the next task. A lthough Surface Technologies isn't aware of the schedule given to the original coatings crew, what they do know is that they think they're not only back on the GC's schedule but that they may even be beating the clock at this point. According to Greenblatt, they were asked to try to shave off some time, and that is a goal they've achieved. Getting ahead of schedule is great, but on a new construc- tion project, one team can't act in isolation (there's no "I" in team after all). ere needs to be constant work around other teams onsite. Sharing the areas worked for the most part, but there were a few fouls. First was the parking situation. "Parking was a big problem," McCoy said. With two trucks on site, a 350 Dually and his F150 (both from Ford), navigating where to drop off and load was challenging. "In the beginning, it was a pain for parking, and that's normally never been an issue for us. A lot of the jobs, the first thing they say is, 'You can put your truck here,'" McCoy said. "But being a college like that, the traffic is just understandable. Just driving through D.C., I can imagine." ey had to share the loading dock with all of the other trades and park somewhere else on or near the busy campus. With the Potomac River on one side of campus and tightly packed neigh- borhoods, such as Embassy Row, on the other, finding space for big trucks was tricky. e second challenge for the Surface Technology crew was using the lone elevator onsite, which was shared by all trades people. For that reason, they didn't depend on the elevator; instead, they mostly relied on the stairs. "For all the re-pitch product that we put in, we carried a lot of it upstairs: 240 bags of materials that we carried up the floors," said McCoy. A nother cha l lenge for the crew on this job was commu- nication w ith some of the other tradesmen. McCoy tr ied to work w ith those who had to come in before and af ter the f loor insta l lations; however, a lang uage bar r ier became a cha l lenge at times. " T here was some conf usion on the four th f loor as to what had to be done w ith the drain system," he ex plained. " T hey d idn't do what they said they wou ld do, and we had to redo it." A lso, despite putting up caution tape to mark off rooms that had just been coated, they did have one person from another trade duck under and take a few steps onto the brand new floor. "Nothing we're not used to; that's the way new construction is," McCoy said. Luckily, the coating sets up in an hour, and the new floor had cured enough so that the offense didn't damage the system. Slam Dunk After putting all empty pails of coatings and any excess chips into the garbage, the crew was able to pack up and finish its work on this historic building. "As a West Virginia University graduate, I was a huge fan of the 'Old ' Big East in basketball. Even though Georgetown was a rival, I had tremendous respect for their program, particularly for coach John R. ompson, as a man of character, who instilled that in his players," Greenblatt said. e project, which is slated to be certified as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), should be completed by fall 2016. Despite the challenges, McCoy and his FlorLine crew came to D.C. to finish the job in a timely manner, and they did. His positive attitude was just a slam dunk. "It's just new construction," he said. "I mean, there's always something." Trespassers, parking issues, lack of elevators — nothing seemed to faze McCoy on this job. CP The entire athletic center project should be completed by the fall of 2016. With a high-performance flooring system throughout the building, the final product should be a slam dunk! Georgetown Athletic Facility VENDOR TEAM 3M Safety equipment manufacturer 3M Center St. Paul, MN 55144 (888) 364-3577 www.3m.com BASF Corporation Coating manufacturer 100 Park Ave. Florham Park, NJ 07932 (973) 245-6000 www.basf.com DeWalt Equipment manufacturer 701 E Joppa Rd., TW425 Baltimore, MD 21286 (800) 433-9258 www.dewalt.com Ford Motor Company Equipment manufacturer P.O. Box 6248 Dearborn, MI 48126 (800) 392-3673 www.ford.com Tempest Technology Corporation Equipment manufacturer 4708 N Blythe Ave. Fresno, CA 93722 (800) 346-2143 www.tempest.us.com