Celebrating God's Abundance
Photos Taken January to April 2006
January 11: Cutting into the Driveway
The digging is now so close to the driveway that it has been closed.
Footers for the western wall have now been poured.
January 18: Report from the Building Committee
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So far, construction is just about on schedule. All of the “footings” are now complete
...these are the poured concrete bases for the foundation walls.
The steel rods sticking out of each of the footings are called “rebar”,
which is the short name for reinforcing bars. As the name implies, they serve
to make the concrete stronger. They also tie the footings to the foundation walls.
Over the next three to four weeks, you will see the foundation walls starting to be formed, which then allows the concrete to be poured. After the concrete sets, the forms are removed for reuse on another wall [or eventually, on some other project]. Finally, there will be initial concrete masonry block walls started in the next couple of weeks. The sewer and storm drain work has started and eventually, these pipes, as well as the other utility lines for electricity, phone, and water will be tied into the building. |
January 20: A warm spell makes outside work easier
The north footers show how the front will align with the church drive
The forms (to shape the concrete) for the main interior wall were truly massive!
Here's a view looking north.
February 02: A lot of concrete was poured and sat several days to "cure".
When the forms were removed we could see the large north retaining wall.
Feb 12: (Sunday) 15 inches of snow fell, leading to cancellation of services.
However, the snow soon melted and we kept on building.
February 21: Now the internal construction started.
Concrete blocks will protect this enclosed stairwell in case of fire.
A gravel base was laid down before pouring the basement floor.
March 4: As the noonday sun crept higher in the sky, the new building moved steadily toward completion.
Mt. McFall (background) was now joined by a hill of gravel in the parking lot.
During the past two weeks the basement floor was poured and
the steel framework for floors 1 and 2 was erected.
March 11: Prefabricated parts move construction forward rapidly.
After insulating sheathing was glued to the outside of the foundation
the deep trenches at the sides of the building were filled in.
Hollow-core concrete planks made it easy to assemble a lightweight floor.
April 4: The fire escape stairwells were enclosed in concrete blocks.
The eastern stairwell was blocked in and the concrete planks
forming the top floor were set in place.
Mt. McFall was shrinking as earth was replaced around the foundations.
The western stairwell here is nearly enclosed in concrete blocks.
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