10/3/2008 The floor of the building is being made. The work started at 6 am. Readymix is being pumped and finishers leveling the mix.
10/3/2008 Half the work is done.
10/3/2008 It is like making Halva, Burfee or Brownee
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10/3/2008 Samples are taken for 'Compaction testing'; to assure the floor can meet required strength.
10/3/2008 It is about 60% done
10/3/2008 A close-up view of the action
10/3/2008 You can see the 7 mandaps which were poured with a higher strength concrete mix a few days earlier.
10/3/2008 Workers taking a break while waiting a truckload of concrete mix. Notice the concrete blocks are piled up ready for the wall that will come up next week.
10/3/2008 It is done. Picture taken at 5:30 pm. The floor is almost dry; one could walk on it.
10/3/2008 Another view. It took 110 cubic yards of concrete mix to do this floor.
10/3/2008 Friday The walls will start coming up next week
10/7/2008 Tuesday The first stage of the walls are up
10/9/08 Not much got done on Wednesday 10/8; awaiting clarifications from structural engineer on 'tie-beam' details
10/9/08 Thursday Our Project Manager Carlos Eduardo Alvarez (1st person from the right side) with his team members. It is raining now, waiting to see what could be accomplished today
10/9/08 Thursday - Note the Rainbow Our Project Manager Carlos Eduardo Alvarez (1st person from the right side) with his team members. It is raining now, waiting to see what could be accomplished today
10/9/08 West wall with rainbow behind
10/9/08 Entrance door to the storage room and one of the 3 windows
10/9/08 View of west side from storage room
10/9/08 West entrance
10/9/08 View from west end of the site
10/9/08 End of Day North east corner of the building
10/10/08 Boxes, with steel rebars inside, installed. Concrete mix will be poured into these. A lintel is defined as a horizontal block that spans the space between two supports in classical western architecture. A lintel is a load-bearing and placed over an entranceway.[
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10/10/08 West entrance
10/10/08 West entrance - closeup of lintel box with lot of steel inside
10/10/08 Blue sky - a reason we are all in Florida
10/14/08
10/15/08 Pouring concrete mix into 'Fill Cells' of the concrete blocks
10/18/08 Saturday View from northeast corner
10/18/08 Saturday Scaffolding and tools being delivered. The walls will go up further next week.
10/18/08 Saturday View from the ladder
10/18/08 Saturday Beautiful sky
10/18/08 Saturday Blocks everywhere
10/18/08 Saturday Florida the beautiful
10/18/08 Saturday View from celebration church
10/18/08 Saturday West parking lot
10/18/08 Saturday Breezeway and restrooms
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10/23/2008
10/24/08 Fire water source moved from south side of the SW corner to west side of the SW corner, as required by Fire Department
10/24/2008 Tie beam preparations are completed today. They plan to pur the concrete mix Monday (10/27) morning
10/27/08 Monday Today the tie beam and the fill cells are being poured with concrete mix.
10/27/08 Monday
10/27/08 Monday Concrete mix is being pumped into the cells
10/27/08 Monday The pump It is 5:51 pm, they are still working
10/29/08 Window openings filled by a wooden form and concrete mix poured around it
10/29/08 steel bar woven into a pattern to support the lower roof
10/29/08 inside view of front wall
10/29/08 Stripping down wooden supports
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10/29/09 Getting ready for the trusses
10/29/08 Getting ready for the masonry gable wall
10/29/08 The wood piece creating one of the 5 window opening on the front wall is being thrown into the dumpster
10/29/08 Now the window openings are stripped of the wooden forms
10/29/08 One of the may truss fasteners that will hold the truss to the side walls
10/30/2008 Thursday A porte-cochere (French porte-cochère, literally "coach door", also called a carriage porch) is the architectural term for a porch or portico-like structure at a main or secondary entrance to a building
10/30/2008 Thursday
10/30/2008 Thursday West side gable wall
10/30/2008 Thursday View from southwest corner
10/30/2008 Thursday Front Entrance
10/30/2008 Thursday Porte-cochere
