construction photos
The final slab-level conduit job we started last week was completed this week, bringing the total installed length of that conduit system to over one mile. It is beautiful, if you like wiggly lines.
Continue reading “Week 48 (Completion of radiant heating conduits)”
Progress seems to be accelerating now. In one week we saw:
Here’s the representative progress picture:
Read on to see more progress pictures:
Continue reading “Week 47 (Completion of slab rebar and mesh)”
After months of mostly subtle changes (a new run of conduits here, a few new holes in the blocks there), this past week has completely changed the complexion of the site—to pink!
Let’s take a closer look…
OK…so I was a little optimistic about pouring the slab this week. We are getting closer, having filled the foundation up to minus eight inches, but we still have to lay down the in-floor radiant heating pipes, which is the last layer before the top of the slab. There are many ways to measure the progress since last week. One is to consider how much smaller the pile of gravel has become:
We got a large truckload of gravel delivered this week, seen here in two large piles:
Not very exciting, I know, but it is progress. There has also been a lot more progress on the mechanical conduit layer, with manifold inputs taking their place in the blocks in Booth A:
And one of the bathrooms:
And I found out what the green spraypaint on the blocks means…
My General Contractor called me this week to tell me that we needed to do a final walk-around this weekend because we’re about to submit for inspections before pouring the slab. At this point I’ve kinda resigned to the view that “I’ll believe it when I see it”, but there are some last-minute changes that the very interested may wish to see.
Progress is slowly starting to accelerate at the construction site. Though we are not quite finished with the electrical conduit work, we have started to lay in the infrastructure for the mechanical layer, namely radiant heating and HVAC cooling. The mechanical layer is the last layer we need to complete before we pour the slab.
We’re getting down to the last nitty-gritty details before pouring the slab. One of those details is the precise question of how we’re going to build the rear of the control room, which will incorporate a symmetric 4-step QRD built from RPG blocks. We’ve had a general idea ever since Wes Lachot first drew that page of the plans more than a year ago, but now we need to know the exact answers, down to the sixteenth of an inch. So we went to the field to see how our theories comported with reality…
If you are like me, you probably cannot wait to see what Manifold Recording is going to look like. If you have two and a half minutes, you can get a glimpse by viewing my shiny new video walkthrough. Unfortunately WordPress does not tolerate very well the embedded object that plays the video, so rather than mess up the formatting of every entry that follows, please visit the Studio page of the website and roll your mouse over the image you find there.
The video will play in 1/2 size format and also 720p HD. It run 02:31 mm:ss and it’s very nice!
This past week saw another series of block deliveries, mostly odds-and-ends type blocks, such as this 6″ CBBB Polished 1 Face 1 Bottom block. Another fourteen similarly unique pallets were delivered, and if you were wondering when the amount of extraordinary detail that defines every aspect of this project would begin to weigh on my psyche, it would be about now. It’s like a jigsaw puzzle where you know what it’s supposed to look like in the end, but you cannot start putting it together until all the pieces are delivered, and there are so many pieces that it takes weeks and weeks and weeks for all of them to be delivered.
The good news is that the deliveries should be complete in the next few weeks, and if we every finish putting conduit into the foundation, we can pour the slab and actually begin real construction…
Continue reading “Week 40 (RPG sample panels and more block)”
Manifold Recording / The Miraverse 
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