Category: Structures

I’ve sensed a pattern.  Outside supports start to go up and the exterior of the next story is finished a day or so later.  Light shines through the windows of the newest floor.  Then the next level’s ceiling/floor must appear and block the light, as it has with the second floor.  After that, the process repeats itself.  The building is going up fast now, and I suspect that after they hit the final floor, it will seem like a lot of nothing is happening, because I won’t be able to see most of what’s going on.

Yesterday, when I took the picture, the flagger said, “Hey! Take a picture of me!”  So today I did.  He’s quite nice and will usually stop traffic when we cross the street for recess.  He’s like our own crossing guard.

I like how the next floor starts with braces.  If you look closely, you can see how there is a construction stairway outside the building which is climbing from the first floor to the second floor.

And a blue sky day as well.
 

Nothing much has happened, but it felt like it had been awhile, so I took a picture.  Later in the day I realized there was a new cinder block wall on the right hand side of the picture.  But we’re holding steady with the first floor, at least from where I can see. 

 

 

The ceiling of the first floor is creeping toward us.
 

 

 

It’s been a bit since we last checked in, but now there is rebar creeping out of the ground and a central wooden structure growing.