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April 24, 2001 : The parking lot is fenced off.
Never mind that parking is already at a premium -- let's put up another building!
May 11, 2001 : Machinery arrives to tear up the car park.
The nice tree outside my window was axed to its roots --
I don't think these construction folks belong to Greenpeace.
May 30, 2001 : Work starts on the foundation.
It's a well organized mess .....
June 25, 2001 : The foundation work continues.
Now it's a bigger well organized mess .....
July 18, 2001 : Here they are starting to pour the foundation pad.
The amount of reinforcing in the foundation pad is absolutely minimal --
just enough to prevent cracking under temperature variations, and that's it!
July 27, 2001 : The steel framing arrives.
Notice that the concrete floor slab is now finished -- it was really hot
on the day they poured and the concrete mix dried in a couple of hours.
July 30, 2001 : Assembly of the steel framing begins.
This was amazing -- they put the framing up in a morning.
August 8, 2001 : Framing for the first floor is in place.
The weather's been incredibly hot. They are only working on the bulding in the mornings.
August 15, 2001 : Framing for the first floor is in place.
August 23, 2001 : .......
August 30, 2001 : .......
August 30, 2001 : .......
Note.
At this point, they jack-hammered a hole in the concrete
wall immediately above my office -- it's for a walkway between the buildings.
This process created lots of noise and dust, and needless to say,
my window was now so filthy the experiment had to be halted :(.
But then ....
October 30, 2001 : The brick layers arrived
October 31, 2001 : Amazing -- they did a whole story in one day!
February 14, 2002 : They're adding an archway support to the walkway.
The archway looks cool -- hopefully it also has some strength.
February 14, 2002 : The exterior is finished, but still lots to do on the inside.
And here it is -- kind of looks like a toolbox, doesn't it?
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