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You can really see the building take shape |
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Week of March 17th
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Steel is delivered and hoisted into place by a fully extended crane
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Friday 12/28/07
Cement trucks arrived and began to pour the slab
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Crews smooth out the cement mixture |
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John Pittari, John Anastas (Structural Engineer)
and Mary Giampietro (Marketing Director) watch in the morning mist
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Friday, 11/30/07
John talks to one of the supervisors as the foundation walls are poured |
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Cement goes from the cement truck... |
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into the pump... |
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It's pumped all the way down into the foundation |
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where it is guided by a worker |
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and then spread out and smoothed by the rest to the crew.
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Monday, November 5th 2007
forms for the foundation walls are removed |
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Foundation walls going up
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Wednesday, September 26th 2007
Cement trucks arrived and poured the footings
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Forms being built, the "new" New Morning footprint begins to reveal itself
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Excavation of the lot, end of September, uncovers some ancient soil
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John Pittari examining stratification. Some of these layers were presumably transported by wind during dry weather periods right after the melting of glacial ice.
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The grounds were graded to allow rain water to flow into our series of environmentally concious rain gardens. More about protecting water resources: http://nemo.uconn.edu.
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