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February 27 More Building All the Time Nothing new to report; but there's more and more of what is happening!! 
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February 20 Steel on the Skyline The architect's notes are just in, and include the following: Steel studs are up along the north wall of the building. Structural steel is being erected throughout the building. The retaining wall along Country Club was poured. Two of the cistern pads have been poured. A meeting of the cistern suppliers, landscape architect, and architect will be convened at the project site in the near future to discuss the submittals. Details for the layout of the South Patio and Children’s Patio were reviewed. There were comments and these are being finalized. 
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February 20 The building is going to look pretty impressive from down on Jaguar Drive... 
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February 16 Real Steel 
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February 16 
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February 16 
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February 13 Vertical Lines Wall going up on the front of the building. The architects' notes for this week say: "The steel studs up and going on the north wall of the Café. Structural steel should start getting erected on Tuesday with the arrival of the crane. Forming has begun on the retaining wall on Country Club. The backflow preventer has been installed at the water service. Cistern C and D pads have been poured..." 
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February 13 
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February 13 Retaining wall under construction on the west side of the building. 
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February 6 Structural steel will be delivered this week. We'll never see it whole in the same way again. The architect's notes this week: "a. Water tie-in and sewer tie-in are under way. b. Segmented retaining wall is mostly complete, with the exception that the faces have been reversed at the northern portion and the southern portion ends abruptly and is not in connection with the existing contours. c. Structural steel will be arriving this week. Steel studs are on site and framing will be starting this week. d. Cistern C and D slabs have been poured. A and B slabs should be held off on until the Architect reviews the connection between the slab heights, cistern heights, and interconnection of the cisterns. Architect is requesting that the cistern in the Children’s patio, Cistern A, be increased by 12 inches. Additionally, how the clean-outs for the equalizing tube and overflow drains work should be reviewed." 
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February 6 
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January 27 Finally, pictures of concrete arcing down out of the sky... The architects' notes earlier in the week said "a. Plumbers are setting the floor drains based on the discussions with the Architect. The floor drains at the showers are recessed for a mortar bed. Other floor drains are set based on the slope from the corners of the bathrooms, as indicated on the drawings. b. Electricians are still working on under-slab work. Contractor expects to pour the remaining slabs Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, along with the retaining wall foundations and drop inlet." But the pictures, when they came, plainly show the big pour taking over all activity... 
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January 27 
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January 16 The Weather's More Like Spring We don't have architects' notes this week, only the photos; but clearly the sea of concrete which will underlie the floor is continuing to grow. 
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January 16 
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January 9 Pouring the Slab The southeast portion of the slab (main portion of the stacks area) was poured on January 5. The southwest portion of the slab (Young Adult Study Room) was poured on Monday January 9. The finishers were out power troweling and hand troweling. More radiant tubing has been placed, and the majority of the stem wall installation has been placed. 
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January 9 
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January 9 Pouring the Slab 
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January 3 The remainder of the data conduit runs is being completed currently. Re-bar grid will be set down in the north part of the building tomorrow. All of the base gravel has been in-filled. The perimeter building foam foundation insulation has been placed. 
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