Category: construction photos

We are still hoping to “open our doors” by the end of the year, and to do so we really need two things to happen:

1. The delivery of doors
2. A timely commissioning of our two consoles

Early Monday morning, and right on schedule, a truck pulled up to the site carrying 12,000 pounds of hardware and packaging from the Industrial Acoustics Company.  This directly addresses item #1, but it also critically enables item #2, because we have a lot of work to do before we are even ready to begin the console commissioning process.  Nevertheless, we do have a schedule that works if everybody delivers according to plan, and IAC did their part to initiate our 6-week sprint with an excellent start:

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This week was mostly progress on smaller things, which is sometimes needed so that bigger things can get done.  With our spiffy new cloud in the Music Room, we put up the finishing touch of some LED rope lights:

That’s just after they were installed by the electrician, but just before they were finally hidden with trim:

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This past week we passed a critical ceiling/electrical inspection, enabling us to connect power to our Music Room Cloud:

It’s always good to test that the lights work in daylight so that if there’s a problem, there’s enough light to fix it.  But the real test–the test that tells you whether the lighting program is actually doing its job is the test run at night:

Continue reading “Week 141 (Music Room Cloud, Part 2)”

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words.  I’m feeling a bit lazy, so I will start off with some photos showing approximately 20% of the Music Room cloud, the Southwestern section:

The same, from a slightly different perspective:

And if those two don’t do it, perhaps this one will:

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Last week the first details of a new plan for the Lounge ceiling began to emerge.  This week the plan is plainly visible:

While the framing looks asymmetric, the result will be perfect axial symmetry.  It is even more dramatic at the other end of the room:

Continue reading “Week 138 (Annex Ceiling Framing)”

The work this past week fit into the category “more of the same”, with three new concrete pours connecting with the trough drain.  Here’s where we stand right now:

And here’s another perspective:

Continue reading “Week 137 (Trough Drain, Part 3)”

The trough drain and the Patio diamonds started to become one this week:

The patio diamonds on the right are hard up against the drain’s right hand side, and the masons are preparing the rebar for the pour on Monday that will establish the patio to the left of the trough drain.

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“Water cannot be controlled, but it can be trained”

We start this week with some of the wisdom given to me by our construction foreman.  Thankfully, I have never experienced the devastating impact of a flood first-hand, but I have seen the consequences of ignoring the cumulative impact that water can have on an otherwise well-designed and well-kept property.  For this reason, I opted to be extra-careful in addressing potential drainage issues at every step of this project.   By addressing the inclinations of water up-front, we seek to train it to travel where we’d prefer, rather than trying to control its flow post hoc.  And central to that plan is our central drainage strategy: the trough drain that runs between the two buildings:

Since the patio between the two buildings is level along the length of the two walls, the drain is progressive, so that water falls from the patio out into the field.  Here’s a reverse angle that shows how much deeper the drain gets along its length:

Continue reading “Week 135 (Trough Drain, Part 1)”