My second day onsite is going great. The sand contractor, Cromwell Contracting, has done a great job prepping the sand bed in the box for helical pile installation next Monday. The UCSD techs and I have been deciphering instrumentation plans from the previous project and placing accelerometers in each lift. Now we are working on the tedious task of hooking the accelerometer wires to the data acquisition system- made more difficult because this is a piggy back project with existing connections. But we’ll get it! After that, we will work on spooling and labeling the 152 strain gage cables to run next week after the piles are installed.  More pictures to come!