construction photos
I was kinda hoping to be able to report on one milestone (the pouring of the concrete slab), but I have a different one to report, based on news from our electrical contractor: we have now installed approximately one mile of conduit into what will be the slab. There’s over 1000 feet of 4″ conduit for technical wiring, and another 4000+ feet of electrical conduit for power and lighting. And now we’re getting ready to install the conduit for condenser lines.
With the technical wiring conduits (analog and digital) deep underground and the balanced power conduits laid in 18″ above those, the electricians are now laying in the lighting conduits.
These conduits all run to the back corner of Sound Lock 2 to be controlled by a custom Variac panel we are building.
Wow! I sure got a lot of feedback on my first set of sketches. Here’s my second attempt at configuring a 48 channel Legacy Plus with integrated patchbays and options section into the control room of Manifold Recording. The major change is that now we have the master section and 16 faders to the left of the acoustic center and we have 32 faders and 6 echo returns to the right. This puts 32 inline channels (64 faders!) within the immediate reach of the engineer, while keeping the master section and most of the remaining channels in reasonable reach without moving from the sweet spot.
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This weekly update brings good news (the arrival of the 4″ polished blocks) and bad news (the senseless shredding of an important access path).
20 pallets of RPG blocks arrived late last week, 12 pallets of 12″ blocks (which will become the frieze and the columns in the Music Room) and 8 pallets of 8″ blocks (which will provide diffusion below the soffits in the control room, booths A and B, and below the control room window in the Music Room).
Meanwhile, we’ve begun the concrete task of grading the blocks, which is a bit like playing a game of duplicate bridge…
Continue reading “Week 36 (RPG blocks delivered, prep for grading process)”
This week saw the delivery of the 6″ blocks that will be used to build the garage. Here’s the before and after:
I am pleased to finally announce some concrete progress: the first arrival of the blocks!
The construction plan shop diagrams call for somewhere around 15,000 architectural blocks, and those blocks need to go somewhere during construction. Thankfully, we’ve got a whole meadow to play with. Accordingly, we’ve staked and roped off areas that will become like library stacks for the 60+ block types that will comprise the 247(!) pallets to be delivered.
Continue reading “Construction photos: week 33 (preparing for block delivery)”
My last construction blog post was week 18, and you might think that since we’re now up to week 32, we’ve come twice as far as when you last checked in. Sadly, no. All construction projects (I am told) suffer at least one inconceivably long and complicated delay, and that’s been the story this whole summer. But there has been some concrete progress (literally), and so I figured I should share the latest photos.
First, to give you some idea of how long the delay has been consider these before and after shots…
Just a super-quick update, as the visual changes to the site are fairly minor. The clean conduits have been completed, and by early next week, the conduits for dirty power (lighting) and HVAC will also be in place. Then we just have a few more loose ends to tie up before pouring the slab. Hooray!
Why so many conduits for a 4000 sq ft facility?
Continue reading “Construction photos: week 18 (clean power)”
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