5333 Connecticut Ave. Building Blog

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comparison of Monday, 07 July, 2014 to Saturday, 12 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

Site 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

45. Week of Monday, 07 July, 2014

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Monday, 07 July, 2014 to

Saturday, 12 July, 2014

Blog, Photos and Videos in reverse chronology.

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• Saturday, 12 July, 2014

- Video

- Today was all cement. A few crew worked in

other parts of the site, but most of the crew

transferred the cement from a steady stream of

cement trucks and managed the cement into a

concrete cover for the north side of the site. The

video is slow and long [quicken with your browser]

but does a good job of capturing the manual-labor

intensive work -- in the heat and humidity of a DC

summer -- in a century of technology. Good thing

the site was quiet by 2P.  (3:54 min)

• Friday, 11 July, 2014

More wall along Connecticut Ave, very close to

the street; does NOT look like the renderings. Sent

the question (Q23) to the Senior Site Supervisor

and his reply was STUNNING. The crew is building

a mini-mock-up of a section of the building that

will be torn down after is it studied. See the

detailed answer.

• Thursday, 10 July, 2014

- Video

- The photos show the ground floor has reached

the Military wall, and preparations are being made

to weave the rebar and cover with concrete. The

video shows the wall, gang forms that covered

large metal sheets that covered vertical rebar to

form a full-height wall almost on Connecticut Ave.

It will be interesting to see if this is the first floor

of the building itself. The surveyor was on site and

on Connecticut Ave.  (1:22 min)

• Wednesday, 09 July, 2014

No sooner was the patch of new cement dried,

but it was filled with supplies and storage. Rough

wooden security fences went up around the gang

form platform in the north west corner. Rebar

weaving continued moving, north and east.

• Tuesday, 08 July, 2014

- Video

- Today, the crew and crane poured and managed

three sections of concrete around base of crane.

We slowed the time-lapsed video for detail but

remember you can quicken the video with your

browser (4:39 min)

• Monday, 07 July, 2014

The three day site-free weekend came to a busy

halt. Center site was the tedious work of weaving

wire and rebar in preparation for concrete. On the

north side, more stilted gang forms were set up

like card tables for a party. The Senior Site

Supervisor answered a neighbor’s question about

project communications.

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