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Monday, 31 March, 2014 to
Saturday, 05 April, 2014
Blog, Photos and Videos in reverse chronology.
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Saturday, 05 April, 2014
- Video
- As usual, Saturday was an excavation day. While
the morning glare made it difficult to see until 9A,
the bull dozer pushed dirt from all over the site to
the mound at the gate; the street-level mound
barely fit two dump trucks and the resident
orange backhoe, which looked like it was about to
tip backwards down into the site. In addition, work
continued on the Military street level. (1:35 min.)
Friday, 04 April, 2014
- Video
Busy day with work all over the site -- building
west and south retaining walls, excavating and
building Military street level, excavating at the
northeast gate. All hands and machines were on
deck. (1:43 min)
Thursday, 03 April, 2014
- Video
- Today was a usual excavation day with the
parade of dump trucks across the lower front of
the screen, right to left, and into the northeast
entrance. New to the routine was the 11:30A
arrival of two red trucks to work on the Military
street-level worksite, replaced at 12:30P by a
series of cement trucks. (1:44 min)
- From the Boss
You will be seeing large forms being moved by
the crane starting today, these are one sided wall
forms called gang forms and starting tomorrow
we should begin placing 60 linear feet of wall a
day. If the weather cooperates the trucking of dirt
should be winding down next week as we near
completion of the bulk excavation
Wednesday, 02 April, 2014
- Video
- The major visual work today was excavating the
site at the gate, which started at the usual
9:30A, and working on the far north side of the
site, at Military street-level (left screen), which
also included excavating with a backhoe and
dump truck and moving supplies with a mobile
crane. At noon, we stopped to bid a fond adieu to
the blue fork lift, front and center screen. Four
cement trucks arrived after the usual quitting
time of 3P. (2:55 min)
- From the Boss - However, by far the most
exciting construction news was e-meeting the
senior site supervisor, who solved many of our
construction mysteries.
02 Apr 2014_ S1 is of the men placing
concrete in a footing with the concrete bucket.
02 Apr 2014_ S2 is another crew installing
bentonite waterproofing, a natural product that
expands when wet to fill cracks and gaps in
concrete walls, it’s a product that’s been around a
long time and does work well.
02 Apr 2014_ S3 is looking west across the
site towards Connecticut Ave.
Tuesday, 01 April, 2014
- Video
- Although it was difficult to see the scurried work
this morning, the first 2.5 hours were spent
preparing for the usual dump truck schedule with
the first wave at 9:30A. Cement trucks joined at
11:45A, and filled the crane cement funnel, while
the backhoe and dump trucks kept moving and
moving out the last remaining street-level site
inside the retaining walls. Supplies were delivered
and work continued on the retaining walls. (2:00
min)
Monday, 31 March, 2014
- Video
Despite the morning glare (and a new webcam
setup) most of the interesting viewing happen at
the far north side of the site -- and just out of
webcam range. The backhoes danced around the
site most of the day, and the first of about a half
dozen cement trucks arrived at 1P. Nothing
dramatic, nothing different. But hey, the video is
only 1:14 min.