A STRONG FOUNDATION

While parents were dropping off their young ones at the interim facility, we were pouring the foundation for the additions at Abrams Road. If you have never seen a concrete pumping truck inaction it is quite a sight to behold.

The concrete truck backs up to the pumping truck's hopper and pours the material in. The powerful pumps move this thick and very heavy material far overhead through a boom.


Concrete enters the hopper.

View of the hopper at the rear of the pump truck. As you can imagine, the weight of this vehicle and the material is extraordinary. Hence the heavy axles and the balance struts you see extended here.

The boom then extends far overhead to place the concrete in the furthest part of the forms. It takes great skill to do this. If you imagine being able to calculate the amount of material in the boom and being able to start and stop the flow of the material.

These images were shot after the first concrete truck had fully discharged the material and pulled away. Once the truck is empty we pull in another one and start again until the entire foundation has been filled.

Here is the completed area in the rear where the Guide Resource Center will be located as well as the restrooms for Miss Jeanne's class.

Today's work started extraordinarily early in an effort to miss the coming rains. We really do appreciate the tolerance of our good neighbors.

While the foundation is proceeding, the steel work continues. Our windows were delivered to day and have been stored in our on-site container. The roofing contract has also been signed effective today so that we may proceed with the weathering-in of the existing structure as quickly as the roof framing is completed. We will not be installing the shingles, but will do the underlayment to keep the interior dry so that work may continue.