Construction Updates from Holder

As of Friday, August 7, here's the report from Holder:

Current week - Activities/Issues:

New Gallery / Connector
• Excavated and poured concrete footings.
• Installed site utilities.
• Placed sub-grade and asphalt binder under the new gallery.
• Demolished the existing canopy.
• Steel erector and crane mobilized.
• Erected structural steel columns and beams.
• Poured the architectural concrete wall mock-up

Existing Building Renovations
• Demolished the ceiling of the main stairwell.
• Removed the existing utilities at the main stairwell.

Storage Bar
• Installed temporary chilled water piping inside the building.

Next week - Activities/Issues:

• Continue to place footings.
• Continue to install site utilities.
• Continue with structural steel erection.
• Demo exterior skin of the main stairwell.
• Install the temporary underground CW piping.
• Tie into the main campus CW loop system.
• Begin to install noise & dust control in the existing building.

Inspections/Testing:
• Soil compaction.
• Rebar inspections / concrete testing.
• Sub-grade / asphalt inspections.
• Utility / material Inspections.

And we should have the streaming webcam from the construction site up on our Web site any hour now, so you can watch the bulldozers roll around.