The action has been fast and furious the past week or so as we get ready for a VERY big day tomorrow! If the weather holds up, the Slab will be poured and the building arrives! But first, some of the work that’s been going on at the job site. Here’s a whole bunch of photos.
MONDAY: No, that’s not me driving. Man I wish! Well no, just as well, I’d be driving that thing down into the pond behind the property! That’s a very experienced operator from Dinsmore Grading company out of Cumming, GA doing some nice work behind the building.
You’d think he was just working a small garden rake the way he was so smooth with that loader. Nice to watch folks who really know what they’re doing!
Looking back from the left side of the building, near the conference room. The underground electrical and plumbing are all in the ground.
WEDNESDAY: A laser level in the foreground while a team from Metal Building Associates here in Buford smooths out the slab. They use that laser to make sure the slab is as level as humanly possible before they pour the concrete. Anything with a laser is very cool, just ask Buzz Lightyear
See he’s got a little orange device taped to the stick he’s holding? That reads the laser to tell him if he’s at the exact height we’re supposed to be for the slab. The thing has a tone on it and it beeps until you get straight on with the laser, and then it gives you a continuous tone. Have no idea how they did this before lasers…… He’s actually standing in our front lobby.
Putting in the water line. I’m amazed at how these guys dig all this out without hitting the buried electrical, gas and existing water lines. And it’s about 92 degrees out too….
My contractor, Joe McCabe, pointing out where his new sauna will be located in our facility while Steve Thigpen from Metal Building Associates looks on in envy. Joe is my general contractor for the entire job and Mike’s company will actually be putting up the metal building. It’s like an erector set, a whole lotta steel that’s put up. Once the building is standing and the outer shell is complete, then Joe will finish the interior. Everybody that Joe has brought to the job has just been awesome so far.
THURSDAY: I’m standing in the back right corner, the big unfinished space is right in front of me, the conference room and kitchen to my right, bathrooms in the center and the 8 edit suites / machine room / sound design room just beyond. That’s plastic and rebar now covering the slab area. along with metal expansion joints running across the width of the building.
Running the sewer line in from the road. This was an adventure to find the darn connection. The engineer drew it in one place on the plans, so they dug for it, but it wasn’t there. Turned out the engineer “assumed” where it was going to be. It was on the other side of the lot. But they found it and thankfully we will not have to install outhouses after all.
“Time lapse” image 1. That red lift you see on the right will be used to erect the building once they start that next week. They just lift the building up using the forks on the front.
“Time lapse” image 2. The pipes that were in the foreground have been removed from the job site. They left a few in case we need them as we get towards finishing. You can see the footprint of the building with all the plastic ready to go. The building is 100 feet across the front, you can get a sense of the scale with that full sized pickup truck in the front. We are going to have room to stretch out!!
That big mound of dirt is all from digging the trench for the sewer line. They were just finishing laying in the pipe before I left and were preparing to put all that dirt back. When we arrive tomorrow morning that will all be smoothed right back out.
Looking down from the cul de sac. One of the last days you’ll see flat land on this site. Next week we should start going up!
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