A Photoblog of the New Building Construction
Photos from March 2018 br> |
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March 6, 2018: Laying out the vapour barrier that lies under the concrete slab floor. |
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March 7, 2018: Laying out rebar for the concrete slab floor. |
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March 9, 2018: The rebar is in place and they are placing the last of the forms for the concrete slab floor. They are hoping to pour on Monday. |
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March 12, 2018: A busy day! The first shipment of the steel girders has arrived and is being unloaded. |
March 12, 2018: The steel will be stored on the ice shed floor where it will be sorted and then installed, hopefully later this week. |
March 12, 2018: They are also pouring the concrete slab for the floor at the front end of the building. |
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March 12, 2018: That is a lot of cement! |
March 12, 2018: Polishing the finished surface. |
March 12, 2018: Putting the finishing touches on the floor. |
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March 15, 2018: Working on the gravel base for the concrete pad in the Mechanical Room. |
March 15, 2018: More of the steel girders and posts have arrived. Now they have to sort them like a giant jigsaw puzzle. |
March 15, 2018: Erection of the steel structure has started. Three posts along the wall separating the ice shed from the viewing area. |
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March 19, 2018: More and more posts have been erected, plus a couple of the cross braces. |
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March 20, 2018: More posts and cross braces. |
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March 23, 2018: More posts at the front end of the building. |
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March 23, 2018: Lots and lots of trusses. |
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March 26, 2018: The big crain arrived on a very rainy day. They got lots of cross beams installed today. |
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March 27, 2018: Setting one of the floor joists in place. |
March 27, 2018: Lots of joists and trusses were installed today. |
March 27, 2018: It looks like about half the steel structure for the front of the building is installed. |
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March 28, 2018: More and more joists and trusses. |
March 28, 2018: Pouring the floor slab in the compressor room. |
March 29, 2018: The header trench at the far end of the ice. The main coolant pipes run through it, then smaller pipes will branch off to run under the concrete pad. |
March 29, 2018: Lifting the middle of the three pillars that run down the middle of the ice shed. |
March 29, 2018: Putting the middle pillar in place. |
March 29, 2018: The finished floor slab in the mechanical room. |
March 29, 2018: The trusses in the ice shed are going up. |
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