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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
Construction Art
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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