Just another brick in the wall...

After just a few days, the "brickies" have almost finished the construction of the foundation and outer walls.  Also this week the installation of underground conduit was completed.  Toledo Edison will use this conduit to install new electrical service to this building.

Overall things are going nicely.  All of the contractors seem to be on the same page to this point.  Once Toledo Edison finishes their installation of our new transformer, pole, and wire, it is all up to our pump contractor and electrician to finish their portion of the installation (pipes and pumps).  Your maintenance staff will be doing all of the cleanup and finish work around the building as well as some "lipstick and rouge" work this winter (painting, shelf and wall construction etc)

Below are a few pictures and details of the past week.

This foundation is 5 courses of block beneath the surface.  Your maintenance crew helped reduce cost by performing all of the backfill work inside and outside of the foundation. 

Textured "split face" block was selected for improved aesthetics.  The building will be painted after construction is complete and before the new concrete floor is poured.

The southern wall after just one day of setting block.

Southern wall and installed double door day two.

The north wall will have a small door for access to range house.

These double doors are on our end of the building to allow installation of pump station components and acid injection tanks and equipment.

4 full days of setting block and three and a half of four sides are complete.  Not too bad for a small crew.

This machine is our directional boring machine.  This thing is really cool.  Workers use this to precisely and rather quickly install underground conduit to the depth and specification set by us and Toledo Edison.  Basically a horizontal drill that made a hole and pulled 1000' of 4" conduit from the building to the right of #1 tee.

All underground with no surface disruption.  Done in 3 days.  No trench, no sod, no fuss and no muss.  Sweet piece of equipment.