The pillars on the south side of the site are finished and soon it will be time to put in the bricks to rest the floor beams on.
Here's our old friend the Electrical Cupboard!! Still here defying the new build like a brick built King Canute.
Yup... more rain!!
Two shear walls up and the pillars are being cased ready for filling.
Most of the shear walls are now up.
The last of the pillars being filled with concrete.
And the last of the concrete goes into the foundations.
Bits of wall are going up!! But it's the floor next.
The south side is ready for it's floor beams. 
The north side of the site has all the footings ready to receive the floor beams.
Most of the floor beams now laid on the north side of the site. 
The floor beams ready to receive all those bricks!
Time to start laying all those bricks.... it's going to be quite a job!
The south side floor bricks are mostly done.
The north side of the site has most of the floor beams in place ready for the bricks.
There we are... all done. (Well... except for the bit by the Electrical cupboard.)
Cutting the floor bricks to fit the final gaps.
The final touch at this stage it to brush a cement mixture between the bricks. Alan says that he can pull up a brick to put the time capsule under... though there is still space next to the electrical cupboard... yes... our old friend is still there!
by now, people would be living in it here. Seriously, the workers are many times homeless, or might as well be, and as soon there is a roof, they live there.
ReplyDeletebe cool to see the finished product in person!
Well... we do take Boarders Joe. :-)
ReplyDeleteWe have quite a bit of disruption with not having a dining room on this site now. The students walk about 13 miles extra a week to get to meals. It's a shame that the older students who have the hassle won't get the benefits... they'll have left by the time it's finished.
The girls have got a Wii system out of it though. It's in the Wykeham TV room and makes up for the fact that the PS3 in Bennetts is too far to get to... and usually has the boys playing shoot-em-ups on it.
I'll try to get copies of the plans to put on this blog.
.......thanks for this blog Mr T, myself and a number of my colleagues in the office are watching very keenly to make sure that no corners are being cut and everything is being built in accordance with the plans! It was good as well to see that a safe home was found for the Mulberry.
ReplyDeleteIan H (one of the architects)