  {"id":143105,"date":"2021-06-04T16:52:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T02:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=143105"},"modified":"2021-07-20T16:38:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T02:38:02","slug":"concrete-ramp-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/06\/04\/concrete-ramp-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Students ramp up engineering with concrete project"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-engineering-concrete-ramp.jpg\" alt=\"people standing in front of concrete ramp\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-143107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-engineering-concrete-ramp.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-engineering-concrete-ramp-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-engineering-concrete-ramp-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Transporting supplies to and from Holmes Hall on the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> campus just got easier after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Engineering<\/a> students designed and installed a new concrete ramp connecting the frequently used driveway and walkway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-engineering-ramp-project-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"people helping to build concrete ramp\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-143108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-engineering-ramp-project-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-engineering-ramp-project-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-engineering-ramp-project.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The spring 2021 project involved 19 Society for Humanitarian and Sustainability Engineering (<abbr>SHSE<\/abbr>) students and other students from the civil and environmental engineering construction materials course. The ramp is located between Holmes Hall and the Pacific Ocean Science and Technology building. It provides easy access to the mechanical and civil engineering workshops in Holmes Hall, while also giving the students a hands-on learning experience.<\/p>\n<p>The students worked with and gathered approvals from <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s Office of Planning and Facilities, Office of Project Delivery, M\u0101noa Sustainability Office, Facilities Management Office, Buildings and Grounds Management and Environmental Health and Safety Office.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-engineering-ramp-holmes-hall-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"people help to create a concrete ramp\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-143117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-engineering-ramp-holmes-hall-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-engineering-ramp-holmes-hall-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-engineering-ramp-holmes-hall.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Office of Project Delivery approved the structural and pavement design and layout prepared by the students. Buildings and Ground Management helped with excavation and brought in fresh soil. The students then installed and compacted the subgrade and subbase, designed and tested the concrete mix, fabricated the formwork and rebar at the civil engineering workshop, and batched and poured the concrete using departmental machines.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This project was a great learning experience for my members and I as we got to apply what we learned in class and also got to meet and work with different people within <abbr>UH<\/abbr>,&rdquo; said <strong>Jolie Yim<\/strong>, <abbr>SHSE<\/abbr> student project manager and a senior civil engineering major. &ldquo;Like all projects, there were a few bumps along the road and so it was really relieving and empowering to see something that we&#8217;ve worked so long and hard on to come to fruition.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This work is an example of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s goals of <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf#page=20\">Enhancing Student Success<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf#page=25\">Excellence in Research: Advancing the Research and Creative Work Enterprise<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), two of four goals identified in the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf\">2015&#8211;25 Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), updated in December 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ramp will provide easy access to the mechanical and civil engineering workshops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1477,179,182,1480,1466,1467,9],"class_list":["post-143105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-civil-environmental-construction-engineering","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-engineering","tag-manoa-academic-innovation-engaged-learning","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-manoa-excellence-in-research","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143105"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143140,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143105\/revisions\/143140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}