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Home My WebLink About2018-01-03 arch repair email1 Minyard, Brian From:Airo, Robert <RAAiro@uams.edu> Sent:Wednesday, January 3, 2018 2:52 PM To:Minyard, Brian; Paul Porter; Brian Driscoll Cc:Ralph Wilcox Subject:RE: First Lutheran Church Brian: Thank you for the update and input. We appreciate it very much. We are in the process of obtaining quotes and our church council meets next week. I provide a final decision after the meeting. My belief is we will elect to remove the arch. If we have the quotes, we will decide on the contractor and start securing/removing the arch. We have been planning to save the bricks for reuse, and have the motor matched. I am still working with the Trustee on the roofs. The roofer does not utilize e-mail, which could have had the issue settled by now. I will continue to see when the Trustee can have the roofer on site, or a teleconference call, to hopefully meet with both the City and State regarding the roofs. I have moved into a different role with the church. As of Monday, I am the new Vice-President. Although it is not part of the Vice-President’s duties, I’ll still be coordinating grants, financial incentives, and probably the larger projects these will involve. I am the most knowledgeable at the church of the grants and historic issues, and other council/church members expressed concern on my input – so, I’ll still be a main contact. Thanks again! Robert.  please do not print this email unless necessary From: Minyard, Brian [mailto:BMinyard@littlerock.gov] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2018 2:22 PM To: Paul Porter ; Airo, Robert ; Brian Driscoll Cc: Ralph Wilcox Subject: RE: First Lutheran Church Paul Porter and I discussed your arch issue this morning on the phone. Given that the arch would have to be totally removed and recreated during the repair, that puts it in a different light. This is not a restoration/repair anymore, it is a reconstruction. And who know when it will be hit again by another delivery driver? It is based on these questions that I have decided that it would be permissible to remove the arch altogether, if the church desires to do so. If they do, these would be the conditions: 1) Remove the arch while saving all available face bricks to use later. You will need them. 2) Test existing mortar on both office porch column and church and use mortar to match in composition. Dye mortar if necessary to match when mortar cures. 3) Reconstruct the porch column on the office to the same dimensions and materials that are there now including the concrete/stone cap. 2 4) Weave in bricks to match pattern on pilaster on sanctuary. Consider replacing brick lower on pilaster that have been chipped by automobiles hitting them on previous occasions. If the church decides to keep the arch, the same conditions apply with the exception of buying additional brick to match and reconstructing the arch in the same dimensions and face materials as before. Acme Brick should be able to help with brick to match. Robert, please let me know what the church decides to do on the arch. I still think we have some roofing issues to settle also. Brian Minyard From: Paul Porter [mailto:Paul.Porter@arkansas.gov] Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2017 2:28 PM To: 'Airo, Robert'; Brian Driscoll; Minyard, Brian Cc: Ralph Wilcox Subject: RE: First Lutheran Church Hi Robert, I thought of another thing while I was at lunch. The masonry within the existing porch column looks like brick “seconds”. Those are bricks that were not as high quality as the exterior facing brick and were used to filled in the cavities and provide structural support. It would be perfectly acceptable to reconstruct the column with CMU blocks for the interior structure and then face it with the cream color brick. I also contemplated the idea of a concrete pour in a constructed mold with brick facing, but I think that might weigh more than the brick seconds and could cause the porch to settle unevenly and then could cause the concrete porch floor to crack from the load stress on the corner. Cheers, Paul Paul Porter Technical Services Coordinator/Conservation Easement Coordinator Arkansas Historic Preservation Program a division of the Department of Arkansas Heritage 1100 North Street | Little Rock, AR 72201 office: 501.683.6672 fax: 501.324.9154 ArkansasPreservation.com Facebook | Twitter #AuthenticArkansas #ArkansasPreservation From: Airo, Robert [mailto:RAAiro@uams.edu] Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2017 2:14 PM To: Paul Porter; Brian Driscoll; 'Minyard, Brian' Cc: Ralph Wilcox Subject: RE: First Lutheran Church Paul: 3 Thanks! We will get started with contractors. Brian M., when you return, let me know if you have any issues on the Little Rock side. Thanks. Robert.  please do not print this email unless necessary From: Paul Porter [mailto:Paul.Porter@arkansas.gov] Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2017 12:42 PM To: Airo, Robert <RAAiro@uams.edu>; Brian Driscoll <Brian.Driscoll@arkansas.gov>; 'Minyard, Brian' <BMinyard@littlerock.gov> Cc: Ralph Wilcox <Ralph.Wilcox@arkansas.gov> Subject: RE: First Lutheran Church Hi Robert, After going to the church and assessing the damage, the entire column on the porch of the church office is going to need to be taken down and rebuilt. The structural damage goes all the way down to the porch floor as the column has been knocked a good 2 to 3 inches forward and the masonry on the exterior and interior of the column is cracked badly all the way through. 4 5 In looking at the construction techniques, the arch will have to be taken down to rebuild the porch column. I recommend leaving the pilaster on the corner of the church building and using the salvage brick (or new brick that matches) and square off that pilaster. You may be able to save enough salvage brick from what’s left onsite to at least do the facing of the brick on the column. Brian Driscoll and I concluded that the practical thing to do would be to omit the 6 arch altogether. We’re actually a bit amazed that the arch has been intact this long and hasn’t been hit or destroyed before in the past. I hope their insurance company is reasonable to deal with to get this resolved. Let us know what else we can do to help. Cheers, Paul Paul Porter Technical Services Coordinator/Conservation Easement Coordinator Arkansas Historic Preservation Program a division of the Department of Arkansas Heritage 1100 North Street | Little Rock, AR 72201 office: 501.683.6672 fax: 501.324.9154 ArkansasPreservation.com Facebook | Twitter #AuthenticArkansas #ArkansasPreservation From: Airo, Robert [mailto:RAAiro@uams.edu] Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2017 9:36 AM To: Paul Porter; Brian Driscoll; 'Minyard, Brian' Subject: First Lutheran Church Paul, Brian, and Brian: Good morning. I hope you have all had a good Christmas and looking forward to the New Year. We had an incident at First Lutheran Church a week or two week ago. We would like to have you take a look and let us know how to best proceed. We had a transport van hit the brick arch between the sanctuary and office building on the 8 th Street side. The arch was hit from the parking lot side. The arch has been damaged and displaced by approximately two inches. We have not obtained a contractor yet, although there is concern about injury liability if any further bricks/concrete falls, so there is an urgency to begin moving on a repair/removal of the arch. We would appreciate the following:  Would you be able to go by and assess the damage from the historic preservation?  Would you provide a recommendation for rebuilding the arch or removing it? o We may need documentation to submit to the van transport insurance  Would you have any vendor/contractor recommendations for the repair? Your consultation would be very much appreciated, so we can comply with the historic requirements and start towards the repair. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks. Robert. 7  please do not print this email unless necessary Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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