Photos: UA architecture students tour Sun Mechanical
Students in Ray Barnes' Environmentally Adaptive Systems toured local mechanical contracting firm Sun Mechanical to observe how plumbing, ductwork and sheet metal systems are planned and fabricated. This is the eighth year Sun Mechanical has hosted Barnes' class.
Photos by Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
UA architecture students tour Sun Mechanical
Robbie Howell, operations manager, pointing with gloves, shows University of Arizona architecture students in Ray Barnes' Environmentally Adaptive Systems class the shop's bandsaw cutting through steel during a tour of Sun Mechanical.
UA architecture students tour Sun Mechanical
Fourth-year student Gus Noriega, right, admires a finished ductwork component with teaching assistant Zach Peters.
UA architecture students tour Sun Mechanical
Freddy Moreno, left, gets help from classmates as they cover him with job order stickers.
UA architecture students tour Sun Mechanical
Sheet metal shop supervisor Jorge Franco talks about a piece of spiral ductwork.
UA architecture students tour Sun Mechanical
Robbie Howell, operations manager, shows University of Arizona architecture students in Ray Barnes' Environmentally Adaptive Systems class a plumbing system during a tour.
UA architecture students tour Sun Mechanical
Robbie Howell, operations manager, shows University of Arizona architecture students in Ray Barnes' Environmentally Adaptive Systems class a pipe threader.
UA architecture students tour Sun Mechanical
Harrison Chodash, center, leans in as operations manager Robbie Howell demonstrates a roll groove machine.
UA architecture students tour Sun Mechanical
A shop worker grinds on a piece of angled steel as University of Arizona architecture students in Ray Barnes' Environmentally Adaptive Systems class tour Sun Mechanical.
UA architecture students tour Sun Mechanical
Sheet metal shop supervisor Jorge Franco, left, and foreman Randy Rubenow, talk about finished air duct pieces.
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