Changing the face of Charleston : The unbuilding of the Grace and Pearman Bridges
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October 10, 2006:Brian Dadin joins the team
While Sparky's camera is under repair, Brian Dadin, one of the early members of my MUSC IT Lab provides a different view of the bridge.

Something about Brian. Brian distinguished himself in our IT Lab with 1 great idea / week. By Wednesday if there had been no new ideas I would always lean on Brian - "What is the great idea of this week?" and Brian would come up with yet another terrific concept, idea etc. He is a web developer of extraordinary ability. Brian could come up with a working prototype of our portal (https://s3.amazonaws.com/my.musc.edu), of a workflow manager and you name it. Brian could pull together a working prototype within a few days. From Brian's rough draft the rest of the team would polish it and extend it. The IT Lab was special - everyone had their own speciality - Nathan, Christopher, Matthew, Robert, Josh, Brian C, Brian M., Satya and Nafees. Within the walls of the IT Lab, I was the junior learner and these guys were the senior learners.

Brian graduated from the IT Lab about two years ago. (No one every quit - they all graduated). Brian went to Blue Ion, LLC an interactive marketing agency. Recently Blue Ion moved to the Cigar Factory - on East Bay and across from the Port. From Brian's window, you can see the bridge worksites. So here is Brian's first contribution.

Here is Blue Ion's new home

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A view from a Blue Ion window of cousin Arthur's bacon project

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The Grace / Pearman worksite and a progress report. When last Sparky had his camera operating we saw the foundation of the mid-span support for the Grace truss. Now you can see that the support is in place and ready for our iron-worker acrobats to start some serious unbuilding. Looking more closely, it looks like Chris and his 7550 + our ironworker acrobats have unbuilt all the struss structure between the last two Grace legs (left).

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Sparky's camera should be back soon - and between Brian, Sparky and anyone else - lets pick up the story and continue. From Singapore, wish I could be there!

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