Tag: ArtBldg

I’ve sensed a pattern.  Outside supports start to go up and the exterior of the next story is finished a day or so later.  Light shines through the windows of the newest floor.  Then the next level’s ceiling/floor must appear and block the light, as it has with the second floor.  After that, the process repeats itself.  The building is going up fast now, and I suspect that after they hit the final floor, it will seem like a lot of nothing is happening, because I won’t be able to see most of what’s going on.

Yesterday, when I took the picture, the flagger said, “Hey! Take a picture of me!”  So today I did.  He’s quite nice and will usually stop traffic when we cross the street for recess.  He’s like our own crossing guard.

I like how the next floor starts with braces.  If you look closely, you can see how there is a construction stairway outside the building which is climbing from the first floor to the second floor.

And a blue sky day as well.
 

Nothing much has happened, but it felt like it had been awhile, so I took a picture.  Later in the day I realized there was a new cinder block wall on the right hand side of the picture.  But we’re holding steady with the first floor, at least from where I can see. 

 

 

The ceiling of the first floor is creeping toward us.
 

 

 

It’s been a bit since we last checked in, but now there is rebar creeping out of the ground and a central wooden structure growing.

I confess that I write the titles of these posts on the fly when uploading pictures.  Often when I look at my list of posts to write I have no idea what the title is talking about.  But luckily I have the pictures to keep me in line.

Two men (not pictured, though I watched them work during recess duty) are pasting different colored sheets over the yellow material that they stuck up first.

I should probably find someone who is familiar with construction and tell me what is really happening. I’m quite sure I’m not using actual construction terms.

We* are digging now.
 

Two trucks rotate through all day long.
 

*You know “we.”  Me, the person who takes a picture every once in a while and at least two very big digging machines, not to mention the people who operate the machines and the trucks and truck drivers who take the dirt away.  We’re all working very hard.

I’ve been away from work for a few days, so haven’t seen a blow-by-blow, but the building that held Powell’s Technical Books is no more.