5333 Connecticut Ave. Building Blog

30 June 2015

New sunrise for those living west of the site.

29 June 2015

31 May 2015

Last sunrise for the site crane.

16 May 2015

Giant sugar cubes.

10 Apr 2015

30Mar15

Man on a ledge.

18 Mar 2015

18 Mar 2015

Corner windows

12 Feb 205

Installing windows.

04 Feb 2015

Pouring cement into retaining wall, Northwest corner.

16 Jan 2015

View from the roof from Soper.

08 Jan 2015

Outer view of inner wall frames.

02 Jan 2015

Work on the edge, 1.

18 Dec 201

Inside work in outside conditions.

11 Dec 2014

From a block West.

25 Nov 2014

22 Nov 2014

Total blog view.

14 Nov 2014

Washington Monument and National Cathedral from Floor 10, looking

South.

From Sr. Site Supervisor Rob

11 Nov 2014

Last bit of sky for the blog.

11 Nov 2014

New building, old colors.

07 Nov 14

Work on columns for Floor 10.

04 Nov 2014

View of nine floors from Blog.

04 November 2014

Begin the week with Level 11 aka Floor 8.

13 Oct 2014

Putting up an end piece for Floor 8_1.

08 Oct 2014

Working seven floors up.

06 Oct 2014

Interior walls for Floor 1 and white package of windows.

03 Oct  2014

Putting in a side piece of the Level 10 puzzle.

29 Sep 2014

Laying the floor gang form for Level 10.

29 Sep 2014

Start of Level 10 aka Floor 7.

27 Sep 2014

Removing gang form from cement column.

26 Sep 2014

Working Level 9 SW in the rain_1.

25 Sep 2014

Supplies to level 9.

19 Sep 2014

Level 9 continues North.

19 Sep 2014

Level 9 moves North.

19 Sep 2014

Laying floor gang form for Level 9,

18 Sep 2014

Work begins on Level 8 aka Floor 6.

17 Sep 2014

Finishing Level 8, North side.

15 Sep 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

15 Sep 2014

Level 8 Northwest.

13 Sep 2014

Looking inside

13 Sep 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

13 Sep 2014

Looking inside

12 Sep 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

12 Sep 2014

Level 8 Northwest.

11 Sep 2014

We remember.

Pillars for Level 8 on Level 7 North side.

11 Sep 2014

We remember.

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

11 Sep 2014

We remember.

Security fence around Level 8.

10 Sep 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

10 Sep 2014

Under side of a floor gang form.

08 Sep 2014

Level 8, Southwest corner.

08 Sep 2014

Starting Level 8 at the Northeast corner.

08 Sep 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

08 Sep 2014

Pillars on North side, seventh level.

06 Sep 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

06 Sep 2014

Pillars on seventh level, from the Southeast.

05 Sep 2014

Pillars on seventh level, from the West.

05 Sep 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

05 Sep 2014

Calm before the ....

04 Sep 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

04 Sep 2014

View North from SE corner.

03 Sep 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

03 Sep 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

02 Sep 2014

Cement buckets.

30 Aug 2014

Eye level North side looking South.

30 Aug 2014

Down Connecticut Ave.

30 Aug 2014

Eye level from SE corner to gate.

30 Aug 2014

Floor gang form on seventh level but not on lower levels.

30 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

30 Aug 2014

Eye level South side.

29 Aug 2014

Pillars for the seventh level North side.

29 Aug 2014

Seventh level moves North.

29 Aug 2014

Blue wire.

29 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

29 Aug 2014

Chance to work ground level.

28 Aug 2014

Trimming rebar.

28 Aug 2014

Seventh level from Southeast corner.

28 Aug 2014

Seventh level Southwest corner.

28 Aug 2014

Seventh level North side.

28 Aug 2014

Looking down the North side.

28 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

28 Aug 2014

Seventh level moves North.

27 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

27 Aug 2014

Seventh level aka fourth floor begins on South side.

26 Aug 2014

Morning exercises on sixth level.

26 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

26 Aug 2014

Columns for seventh level, fourth floor.

25 Aug 2014

From the NW corner, looking into the cellar, first floor, second floor and

top third floor.

25 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

25 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture, across Connecticut Ave.

25 Aug 2014

Eye level view from NW corner.

23 Aug 2014

Columns for seventh level Northwest corner.

23 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

23 Aug 2014

Rebar delivered.

22 Aug 2014

Lowering rebar structure for column of seventh level.

22 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

22 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

21 Aug 2014

Shape of the building.

20 Aug 2014

Sixth level, Northwest.

20 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

20 Aug 2014

Stack of floor gang forms.

19 Aug 2014

Pillars for sixth level Northeast.

19 Aug 2014

Sixth level North.

19 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

18 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

19 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture, across Connecticut Ave.

18 Aug 2014

Gate from the South.

16 Aug 2014

Column forms on the North.

16 Aug 2014

Sixth level from the North.

16 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

16 Aug 2014

5333 crane over 5323 building.

15 Aug 2014

View from Northwest corner.

15 Aug 2014

Laying the sixth level.

15 Aug 2014

Underside of floor gang form.

15 Aug 2014

Kyle putting up legs of floor gang form.

15 Aug 2014

Start of sixth level, South side.

15 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

15 Aug 2014

Storage on the new cement.

14 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

14 Aug 2014

Delivering new legs for the floor gang form.

13 Aug 2014

Pillars for the sixth level.

13 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

13 Aug 2014

New pillars for sixth level.

12 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

12 Aug  2014

Morning exercise.

11 Aug 2014

Northwest corner.

11 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

11 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture, across Connecticut Ave.

11 Aug 2014

New cement on SE Corner.

09 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

09 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture, across Connecticut Ave.

09 Aug 2014

Fifth level arrives at the gate.

08 Aug 2014

New delivery, Grunley or not?

08 Aug 2014

Southeast corner wired for cement.

08 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

08 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture, across Connecticut Ave.

08 Aug 2014

Southeast corner catching up.

07 Aug 2014

Kanawha eye level.

07 Aug 2014

South side.

07 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture from SE Corner.

07 Aug 2014

Compare: Big Picture, across Connecticut Ave.

07 Aug 2014

Kanawha eye level of the fourth level, aka first floor.

06 Aug 2014

From the SE corner. 

06 Aug 2014

Relocating supplies to West side across multi-level site.

05 Aug 2014

Relocating supplies, view from SE corner, 2.

05 Aug 2014

Relocating supplies, view from SE corner.

05 Aug 2014

Northwest corner.

05 Aug 2014

I know I'n not supposed to have favorites, but...

05 Aug 2014

Big Picture.

05 Aug 2014

Site Closeup.

05 Aug 2014

Site from Southeast corner.

04 Aug 2014

SE corner catching up.

04 Aug 2014

Kanawha street level, SW corner.

04 Aug 2014

Southwest corner, fifth level.

04 Aug 2014

Morning meeting on Northwest fourth level.

04 Aug 2014

Big Picture.

04 Aug 2014

Site Closeup.

04 Aug 2014

Southeast corner, looking North.

02 Aug 2014

Southeast corner trying to catch up.

02 Aug 2014

Fifth level, Southeast.

02 Aug 2014

Columns go up for fifth level.

02 Aug 2014

Big Picture.

02 Aug 2014

Site Closeup.

02 Aug 2014

Cementing.

01 Aug 2014

At gate drive into third level cellar.

01 Aug 2014

North side 3rd level cellar and 4th level first floor.

01 Aug 2014

Southeast corner, looking North.

01 Aug 2014

Multilevel site, from Southeast corner.

01 Aug 2014

Fifth level gang forms closeup.

01 Aug 2014

Southeast corner, looking North.

01 Aug 2014

Southeast corner, start of fifth level, 2.

01 Aug 2014

Southeast corner, start of fifth level.

01 Aug 2014

Big Picture

01 Aug 2014

Site Closeup.

01 Aug 2014

Fourth level, from the NE gate.

31 July 2014

North side looking South into third level, ground floor.

31 July 2014

Westside front of the building to Connecticut Ave.

31 July 2014

Storage on South side, fourth level.

31 July 2014

Meeting on South side, fourth level.

31 July 2014

Southeast corner, looking North.

31 July 2014

Southwest corner.

31 July 2014

Big picture, from across Connecticut Ave looking East.

30 July 2014

Southeast corner, looking North toward gate.

30 July 2014

Southeast corner, looking Northwest.

30 July 2014

Stairwell in new cement.

30 July 2014

New cement, fourth level Southwest corner looking North.

30 July 2014

Big picture, from across Connecticut Ave looking East.

30 July 2014

Site Closeup.

30 July 2014

Still three levels down at the Southeast corner.

29 July 2014

Wire and rebar grid on the Southwest side.

29 July 2014

Site Closeup.

29 July 2014

Concrete for East side.

26 July 2014

Northeast side looking South.

26 July 2014

Still multi-levels in SE corner, looking North. 

26 July 2014

Wire grid in prep for concrete on South side.

26 July 2014

"Window" in the West wall.

26 July 2014

Site Closeup.

25 July 2014

Climbing a column form.

25 July 2014

Lowering supplies.

25 July 2014

Working along Connecticut Ave. on rebar column forms.

25 July 2014

Surveyors working from Connecticut Ave.

25 July 2014

Site Closeup.

25 July 2014

Thru the Northeast gate, East side still on third floor.

24 July 2014

North side, looking south.

24 July 2014

South side.

24 July 2014

Northwest corner, third and fourth floors.

24 July 2014

Site Closeup.

24 July 2014

North east corner, fourth level.

23 July 2014

North side, looking east. What a difference a day makes.

23 July 2014

Northwest corner, looking south.

23 July 2014

Northeast side, still third level.

23 July 2014

Site Closeup.

23 July 2014

South side grows north.

22 July 2014

Rebar column forms.

22 July 2014

Putting up floor forms on Northwest side.

22 July 2014

North side.

22 July 2014

Site Closeup.

22 July 2014

South side.

21 July 2014

North side.

21 July 2014

Site Closeup.

21 July 2014

Sunken Southeast corner.

19 July 2014

Three levels, looking North.

19 July 2014

View from Southwest corner.

19 July 2014

South side.

19 July 2014

Fourth level pushes North, seen from West side.

19 July 2014

North side.

19 July 2014

Site Closeup.

19 July 2014

Fourth level floor reaches Connecticut Ave wall.

18 July 2014

Placing floor gang forms for fourth level.

18 July 2014

View from Northwest corner.

18 July 2014

Baker crew.

18 July 2014

Site Closeup.

18 July 2014

Filtering and pumping rainwater until the drains are completed.

16 July 2014

Next level at Southeast corner.

16 July 2014

True chaos from the South side.

16 July 2014

Inside Connecticut Ave wall.

16 July 2014

Southwest corner.

16 July 2014

North side.

16 July 2014

Site Closeup.

16 July 2014

Site Closeup.

15 July 2014

Saturday's new dry cement -- NOT.

14 July 2014

Morning inspection.

14 July 2014

Site Closeup.

14 July 2014

Panorama.

13 July 2014

Inside the mock-up.

13 July 2014

From the South East corner.

13 July 2014

From the South West corner.

13 July 2014

Closeup.

13 July 2014

Calf-deep in cement, North side.

12 July 2014

More mock-up on Southwest corner.

11 July 2014

Look carefully at the two crew INSIDE the rebar cage.

11 July 2014

New piece added to yesterday's cement block.

11 July 2014

Site Closeup.

11 July 2014

New wall, front and center on Connecticut Ave

10 July 2014

North side to Military wall.

10 July 2014

Rebar form, made before placed.

10 July 2014

Cement block, made before placed.

10 July 2014

Site Closeup.

10 July 2014

AM meeting closeup.

09 July 2014

South side and AM meeting.

09 July 2014

North side closeup.

09 July 2014

North side.

09 July 2014

Site Closeup.

09 July 2014

Cluttered South side.

08 July 2014

New North side.

08 July 2014

Site Closeup.

08 July 2014

Looking South.

05 July 2014

Pushing North.

05 July 2014

South side.

05 July 2014

At the closed gate.

05 July 2014

At the closed gate.

05 July 2014

Pushing North, closeup.

03 July 2014

Pushing North.

03 July 2014

South side.

03 July 2014

Moving supplies from small Conn Ave workspace.

03 July 2014

Site Closeup.

03 July 2014

Site Closeup.

02 July 2014

Finished cement wall and gang forms along North (left) wall.

01 July 2014

Site Closeup.

01 July 2014

Work on new cement.

30 June 14

North side, still on second deck.

30 June 14

Site Closeup.

30 June 14

North side, still on second deck

30 June 14

Pouring concrete.

28 June 14

Pouring concrete.

28 June 14

Pouring begins.

28 June 14

Before the pour, south west side.

28 June 14

First crane bucket of cement.

28 June 14

Queue starts at the gate at 7:15A.

28 June 14

Site Closeup.

28 June 14

Q18: Post tension cables cellar level 01 from Senior Supervisor

27 June 2014

Ordered grid over blue post tension cables.

27 June 2014

Ordered grid.

27 June 2014

Site Closeup.

27 June 14

Ordered cables onsite, surveyor on Connecticut Ave sidewalk.

26 June 2014

South side from gate.

26 June 2014

West side from gate.

26 June 2014

Gate at Military Rd.

26 June 2014

Ground floor and 2nd floor garage underneath.

26 June 2014

Rebar cages.

26 June 2014

Site Closeup.

26 June 14

NE corner, at the gate.

25 June 2014

East wall.

25 June 2014

Mysterious blue wires.

25 June 2014

Ordered chaos, south side.

25 June 2014

Multi levels, north side.

25 June 2014

North wall.

25 June 2014

Site Closeup.

25 June 14

Progress on the south side.

23 June 2014

In the shadows of the far left (east) is the beginnings of the garage

ramp.

23 June 2014

Site Closeup.

23 June 2014

Panorama

21 June 2014

New level at gate NE corner.

21 June 2014

Texture and level patchwork SW corner.

21 June 2014

Cement pillars for second floor.

21 June 2014

New cement floor NW corner.

21 June 2014

Site Closeup.

21 June 2014

New cement NW corner.

20 June 2014

Another level for the north east corner.

20 June 2014

Pillars for fourth deck aka second floor.

20 June 2014

Site Closeup.

20 June 2014

Different level center site.

19 June 2014

Work on ground floor aka third deck.

19 June 2014

Rebar web on second deck.

19 June 2014

Site Closeup.

19 June 2014

Different level center site.

18 June 2014

Ground level grows northward.

18 June 2014

Ground level meets street level.

18 June 2014

Finishing the north side of the second floor (garage).

18 June 2014

Site Closeup.

18 June 2014

Work center site.

17 June 2014

Clutter on third deck.

17 June 2014

Cement on third deck.

17 June 2014

Rebar work in small workspace on Connecticut Ave.

16 June 2014

Site Closeup.

16 June 2014

Panorama looking north.

14 June 2014

Cement delivered at gate.

14 June 2014

Mini dozer at gate.

14 June 2014

East side looking north.

14 June 2014

Storing supplies on a small site.

14 June 2014

Site Closeup.

14 June 2014

Excavator still at gate.

13 June 2014

Multi-levels on third deck.

13 June 2014

Rebar and piping on third deck.

13 June 2014

Site Closeup.

13 June 2014

AM meeting and multi-level third deck.

12 June 2014

Site Closeup, with excavator on far left center.

12 June 2014

Working on Conn Ave wall.

11 June 2014

First patch if cement on third deck.

11 June 2014

AM gathering, looking north.

11 June 2014

Site Closeup.

11 June 2014

Panorama, Kanawha looking north.

10 June 2014

Looking from SE corner downhill to NW corner.

10 June 2014

Third deck grows north during today.

10 June 2014

Work continues on south side third deck.

10 June 2014

Site Closeup.

10 June 2014

Third deck from south.

09 June 2014

Third deck from north.

09 June 2014

Third deck, first floor.

09 June 2014

Three mature trees on Military.

09 June 2014

Small work space on Connecticut Ave side.

09 June 2014

Site Closeup, three levels.

09 June 2014

Work on the third deck.

07 June 2014

Third deck viewed from the north.

07 June 2014

Site Closeup.

07 June 2014

Three floors viewed from the south.

06 June 2014

Work on the third deck.

06 June 2014

Third deck  viewed from Connecticut Ave.

06 June 2014

Rebar viewed from Connecticut Ave.

06 June 2014

Site Closeup.

06 June 2014

Center photo and behind the trees is house with Building Blog

cameras.

05 June 2014

All three decks visible.

05 June 2014

Office trailer in SE corner.

05 June 2014

Looking north from Kanawha

05 June 2014

Site Closeup.

05 June 2014

AM gathering.

04 June 2014

Green, dirt packing robot.

04 June 2014

Center site, looking north.

03 June 2014

Site Closeup.

03 June 2014

Center site, looking north.

02 June 2014

Site Closeup.

02 June 2014

Cement queue starts at the gate.

31 May 2014

Fresh deck as storage.

31 May 2014

Descending from the north and rebar grid.

31 May 2014

Kanawha north.

31 May 2014

Site Closeup, 2.

31 May 2014

Site Closeup.

31 May 2014

Site Closeup.

30 May 2014

Rebar and pillars.

29 May 2014

View from Kanawha north.

29 May 2014

Climbing down the SW corner.

29 May 2014

Site Closeup, 2.

29 May 2014

Site Closeup

29 May 2014

Protest: line of union protesters -- not strikers.

29 May 2014

Protest: line of police vehicles.

29 May 2014

Protest: union logo.

29 May 2014

Back to work by 8:45A.

28 May 2014

Rat...

28 May 2014

RAT!

28 May 2014

Strikers and police at Military Rd.

28 May 2014

Strike signs to up just after 6A.

28 May 2014

Smoothing cement.

27 May 2014

Dumping cement.

27 May 2014

Site Closeup.

27 May 2014

Ankle deep in cement.

23 May 2014

Work, front and center.

23 May 2014

Site Closeup, 2.

23 May 2014

Site Closeup, 1.

23 May 2014

Meeting on Connecticut Ave.

21 May 2014

Eastern wall.

21 May 2014

Site Closeup.

21 May 2014

Eastern wall.

20 May 2014

Site Closeup.

20 May 2014

Eastern wall.

19 May 2014

Second desk, close up.

19 May 2014

Second basement floor.

19 May 2014

Site Closeup.

19 May 2014

Site Closeup.

17 May 2014

Site Closeup, 2.

16 May 2014

Site Closeup.

16 May 2014

Work on second basement floor; first floor parking underneath.

15 May 2014

Site Closeup.

15 May 2014

Site Closeup.

13 May 2014

Backhoe working from gate.

12 May 2014

Work on first basement floor.

12 May 2014

Panorama.

12 May 2014

Site closeup.

12 May 2014

Panorama.

10 May 2014

Dump truck panorama.

10 May 2014

Site close up.

10 May 2014

Panorama.

08 May 2014

Close-in close-up.

08 May 2014

Panorama.

07 May 2014

Connecticut queue.

07 May 2014

South side.

05 May 2014

Center.

05 May 2014

North side.

05 May 2014

Gravel pile east side.

01 May 2014

South side.

01 May 2014

North side.

01 May 2014

Slickers in a soggy site.

30 Apr 2014

South side progress.

28 Apr 2014

Center wall progress.

28 Apr 2014

North side progress.

28 Apr 2014

Inner walls PM.

24 Apr 2014

Inner walls AM.

24 Apr 2014

South side PM.

24 Apr 2014

South side AM.

24 Apr 2014

North wall PM.

24 Apr 2014

North wall AM.

24 Apr 2014

King of a new hill.

22 Apr 2014

Southside

22 Apr 2014

Connecticut & Military

22 Apr 2014

Connecticut & Military

19 Apr 2014

"Whereon the pillars of this earth are founded, towards which the

conscience of the world is tending" Thomas Wolfe

17 Apr 2014

Metal rods delivered.

17 Apr 2014

De-throning the king of the hill.

14 Apr 2014

Yesterday's red forms applied.

12 Apr 2014

Yellow box, gray box.

11 Apr 2014

Red forms delivered.

11 Apr 2014

Columns going up.

10 Apr 2014

Cement trucks unloading from Military.

10 Apr 2014

Loading on a ledge.

10 Apr 2014

Morning exercise.

10 Apr 2014

Spread Footings and columns, 2.

09 Apr 2014

Spread Footings and columns.

09 Apr 2014

Q9 Portal to Hades or spread footing?

07 Apr 2014

Leveling at forty feet on Kanawha south side.

07 Apr 2014

Forty feet down on Kanawha.

05 Apr 2014

Backhoe on the edge.

05 Apr 2014

Work on Military street-level.

05 Apr 2014

Cement forms staged on Connecticut Ave.

04 Apr 2014

Work on Military street-level.

04 Apr 2014

Red truck closeup.

03 Apr 2014

Two red trucks.

03 Apr 2014

From the Boss

Looking west at Connecticut retaining wall.

02 April 2014_S3

From the Boss

Installing bentonite waterproofing.

02 April 2014_ S2

From the Boss

Placing concrete footing.

02 April 2014_S1

Blue forklift last day.

02 Apr 2014

Metal slabs delivered outside north wall.

31 Mar 2014

Metal slabs staged on Connecticut Ave.

31 Mar 2014

Seven cement trucks.

29 Mar 2014

Cement pumping truck at work on the southern wall.

29 Mar 2014

Cement funnel to the western wall.

26 Mar 2014

Queue of cement trucks.

26 Mar 2014

Spring snow.

25 Mar 2014

Mysterious blue barrels delivered.

24 Mar 2014

Cement funnel for site crane delivered.

24 Mar 2014

Morning dump trucks.

24 Mar 2014

Site crane complete.

21 Mar 2014

Final length of crane arm.

21 Mar 2014

Crane counterweight.

21 Mar 2014

Crane hook in place.

21 Mar 2014

Crane hook.

21 Mar 2014

Second part of crane arm.

21 Mar 2014

First part of crane arm.

21 Mar 2014

Crane height complete.

21 Mar 2014

Top of crane in goes into place.

21 Mar 2014

Crane cab.

21 Mar 2014

Fourth piece of crane.

21 Mar 2014

Third piece of crane.

21 Mar 2014

Work outside site, north.

21 Mar 2014

Manhole vault and cover, transferred.

21 Mar 2014

Work outside site, south.

21 Mar 2014

Second part of crane in place.

21 Mar 2014

Second part of crave going up.

21 Mar 2014

First crane part  put in place.

21 Mar 2014

Site crane parts delivered.

21 Mar 2014

Maxim Crane, twenty stories tall.

20 Mar 2014

Maxim Crane.

20 Mar 2014

Working on Military outside the fence.

20 Mar 2014

Pumping truck and cement trucks in concert.

18 Mar 2014

Visit from cement pumping truck.

18 Mar 2014

Putting out the welcome mat.

18 Mar 2014

Backhoe digging down.

18 Mar 2014

Baby dozer starts the day.

18 Mar 2014

Site after early finish.

17 Mar 2014

Moving plastic cover from pit.

17 Mar 2014

Work on the snowy secreted pit.

17 Mar 2014

Ice covered webcam window.

17 Mar 2014

Off-site drainage work.

15 Mar 2014

Secreted project is drainage pit?

15 Mar 2014

Secreted work.

13 Mar 2014

Working outside the fence.

13 Mar 2014

Top floor parking lot.

13 Mar 2014

Perfect personification pose.

12 Mar 2014

Metal box disappears into northwest corner.

12 Mar 2014

Metal box drug into northwest corner.

12 Mar 2014

Work deep at the southern retaining wall.

12 Mar 2014

End of the day deep.

11 Mar 2014

Crew down south.

11 Mar 2014

Even the baby dozer.

11 Mar 2014

Full dance floor.

11 Mar 2014

Yellow Hertz backhoe.

10 Mar 2014

Load of wood on Military.

10 Mar 2014

Backing in for a load.

10 Mar 2014

Backing into site.

08 Mar 2014

Refueling and dumping

08 Mar 2014

Off-site queue

08 Mar 2014

Saturday morning full swing.

08 Mar 2014

Preparing from below.

07 Mar 2014

Day after the storm.

04 Mar 14

Queue of eight.

01 Mar 2014

Bright start to a busy day.

01 Mar 2014

Queue of dump trucks.

28 Feb 2014

Dozer loading in the northwest corner (bottom left)

28 Feb 2014

Working in the snow, 2

25 Feb 2014

Working in the snow,1

25 Feb 2014

Dumping, 2

24 Feb 2014

Dumping, 1

24 Feb 2014

Getting ready for a dump day.

24 Feb 2014

Crew on the north retaining wall.

17 Feb 2014

Snow makes for sloggy start of the week.

17 Feb 2014

Dump, 3

11 Feb 2014

Dump, 2

11 Feb 2014

Dump, 1

11 Feb 2014

On an edge of its own making.

11 Feb 2014

AM sun rays and snow removal.

10 Feb 2014

Military Rd. gate without ramp

08 Feb 2014

Green carpet perimeter.

08 Feb 2014

South side made level.

04 Feb 2014

Measure with a man.

04 Feb 2014

Digging away the driveway.

04 Feb 2014

Stuck in the mud.

03 Feb 2014

End of  a productive week.

02 Feb 2014

Way down south.

01 Feb 2014

Way down north.

01 Feb 2014

Pre-dawn trucking.

01 Feb 2014

Horizontal hole poking machine was back on site.

31 Jan 2014

30 Jan 2013, 6

30 Jan 2013, 5

30 Jan 2013, 4

30 Jan 2013, 3

30 Jan 2013, 2

30 Jan 2013, 1

Dump truck flurry.

28 Jan 2014

Flurry of dump trucks.

27 Jan 2014

Work by the dawn's early light

27 Jan 2014

Level field

26 Jan 2014

Saturday Dump Day, 2

25 Jan 2014

Saturday Dump Day

25 Jan 2014

Keep on truckin' 2

25 Jan 2014

Keep on truckin' 1

25 Jan 2014

End of day, hill of dirt gone (2).

20 Jan 2014

End of day, hill of dirt gone.

20 Jan 2014

In the trenches digging further down, south side.

18 Jan 2014

Depth of south side retaining wall.

17 Jan 2014

King-of-the-hill backhoe and Down-in-the-dumps backhoe

17 Jan 2014

Pipe work on a slow day.

15 Jan 2014

On a hill of its own making.

13 Jan 2014

Crew at work where backhoe was digging.

13 Jan 2014

Digging down south.

13 Jan 2014

No work in the rain and mud.

10 Jan 2014

Down north.

09 Jan 2014

Way down south.

09 Jan 2014

Adding boards to the south retaining wall.

08 Jan 2014

Backhoe and crew digging further down the south wall.

07 Jan 2014

Backhoe at the the sourh wall

07 Jan 2014

Site center.

07 Jan 2014

Good perspective of  depth of north retaining wall; Military on the left.

06 Jan 2014

This dump truck dumped dirt instead of taking dirt.

04 Jan 2014

Five trucks a truckin'

04 Jan 2014

Backhoe closeup

04 Jan 2014

04 Jan 2014

Visitor admiring the snow.

03 Jan 2014

Two inches of snow and 0 degrees windchill...

03 Jan 2014

Starting the New Year with four dump trucks on site.

02 Jan 2014

Workin... eh… at Kanawha gutter.

27 Dec 2013

Forklift moving supplies.

27 Dec 2013

Dozer in the mud on the north retaining wall.

24 Dec 2013

Backhoe and Hole-poker working on southwest corner of retaining

wall.

24 Dec 2013

Forklift moving supplies in the rain.

23 Dec 2013

Digging further down.

21 Dec 2013

More work on the East retaining wall.

21 Dec 2013

Work on the East retaining wall.

21 Dec 2013

North retaining wall.

21 Dec 2013

Down the rabbit hole.

21 Dec 2013

Installing poles in retaining wall.

20 Dec 2013

Hole-driller and southern retaining wall.

20 Dec 2013

New hole-drlling machine in SW corner.

19 Dec 2013

Forklift and wooden slate for retaining wall.

19 Dec 2013

Notice the flat site.

19 Dec 2013

South side retaining wall and construction trailers.

18 Dec 2013

East side retaining wall.

18 Dec 2013

Removing 5333.

17 Dec 2013

Dump Day

14 Dec 2013

South side retaining wall on Kanawha St.

13 Dec 2013

Backhoe dump.

13 Dec 2013

Red and gold sky started the day.

13 Dec 2013

Only snow and ice today.

10 Dec 2013

More snow.

09 Dec 2013

First snow on the site.

08 Dec 2013

Construction trailer hoisted in place.

05 Dec 2013

Busiest day so far.

04 Dec 2013

Another construction trailer

04 Dec 2013

Fixing the bowing Jurassic Giraffe.

03 Dec 2013

Backhoe at Kanawha retaining wall

03 Dec 2013

New medium-sized bulldozer

03 Dec 2013

Backhoe and dump trucks.

25 Nov 2013

Backhoe and forklift.

25 Nov 2013

Backhoe piling dirt.

25 Nov 2013

At 7:10A a nine dump trucks queue.

23 Nov 2013

A queue of dump trucks.

22 Nov 2013

In the center of the photo, a visit from some kind of fuel truck or

maintenance truck for the backhoe.

22 Nov 2013

Backhoe at work at 7:01A

21 Nov 13

Small bulldozer and forklift.

21 Nov 2013

Looking north.

17 Nov 2013

Forklift closeup.

17 Nov 2013

I-beams

17 Nov 2013

Welding equipment.

17 Nov 2013

Jurassic Giraffe making a mess in southeast corner.

17 Nov 2013

Jurassic Giraffe closeup.

17 Nov 2013

Little bulldozer playing in the mess.

17 Nov 2013

Construction Trailer.

15 Nov 2013

Piledriver / post hole digger delivered.

08 Nov 2013

Misc equipment delivered.

08 Nov 2013

I-beams

05 Nov 2013

I-beams delivered.

01 Nov 2013

The story-down, story teller.

30 Oct 2013

One story below Kanawha St.

30 Oct 2013

One story below Kanawha St. _ 2

30 Oct 2013

From one story down, looking at the corner of Connecticut Ave and

Kanawha St.

30 Oct 2013

New arrival - construction forklift

30 Oct 2013

Carovan of trucks

29 Oct 2013

Piles of dirt and debris

25 Oct 2013

From Connecticut Ave looking east

24 Oct 2013

South east corner, Connecticut and Kanawha

24 Oct 2013

King of the Hill

24 Oct 2013

Little backhoe scooting up Kanawha St.

24 Oct 2013

Working below street level east side

21 Oct 2013

Below street level east side

21 Oct 2013

Protest of one at east side alley gate

19 Oct 2013

Construction mess.

19 Oct 2013

Trucking away at east side alley gate

19 Oct 2013

Backhoe and bulldozer at work on the east side

18 Oct 2013

From Connecticut Ave. looking east.

06 Oct 2013

Covering drains at Conn. X Kanawha.

27 Sep 2013

Installing orange fence around each street tree.

27 Sep 2013

Loading dump truck with rubble.

27 Sep 2013

Backhoe clearing debris.

26 Sep 2013

Removing trunks from Kanawha St. side.

25 Sep 2013

From Connecticut Ave. looking east

24 Sep 2013

Connecticut Ave. "stone wall and steps"

24 Sep 2013

East-side alley and gate

23 Sep 2013

Plans posted in east-side alley

23 Sep 2013

More signs posted in east-side alley

23 Sep 2013

DDOT Stop Work Order

posted 9P, 20 Sep 2013

Connecticcut Ave. side denuded.

10A, 20 Sep 2013

Kanawha St. side denuded.

10A, 20 Sep 2013

Connecticut Ave, and Kanawha St., after.

19 Sep 2013

Evergreens ever gone.

Connecticut Ave. and Kanawha St,, before.

21 Dec 2012

Southwest corner denuded.

3:10P, 19 Sep 2013

Connecticut Ave stone wall and steps, after.

3P, 19 Sep 2013

Connecticut Ave stone wall and steps, before.

21 Dec 2012

New view from Kanawha southeast corner

through Connecticut northwest corner.

19 Sep 2013

Backhoes at work.

(Four backhoes on site.)

19 Sep 2013

Tree chipper.

19 Sep 2013

Trees on the southwest corner are felled and chipped.

10A, 19 Sep 2013

Tearing down Connecticut Ave wall. 2

19 Sep 2013

Tearing down Connecticut Ave wall and steps.

9:15A, 19 Sep 2013

Taking down front fence.

9A, 19 Sep 2013

Bulldozer digging begins.

18 Sep 2013

Permits posted in Military Rd. gate.

17 Sep 2013

Grunley Construction Sign

17 Sep 2013

Confab of five hang signs.

17 Sep 2013

11 Sep 2013

Delivered porta-potty and other supplies.

05 Sep 2013

Completed perimeter fence, 2.

04 Sep 2013

Completed perimeter fence.

04 Sep 2013

Put up fence posts and started fence.

03 Sep 2013

Connecticut Ave Before, Kanawha Corner

29 Aug 2013

Connecticut Ave Before, Military Corner

29 Aug 2013

Connecticut Ave Before

29 Aug 2013

Cafrittz provided new design with distorted perspective.

27 Aug 2013

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