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Jan 5

The wet looking area is the base coat put down before the mat is assembled.

The ends of the re-bar are fitted with bolts so that they can be extended

 

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Jan 8

Frames for assembling the rebar cages ?

Spread em ! - these long bars are being fed in by the big crane, 4 at a time, some co-ordination required to get each into the right spot before they are lowered in.

Jan 9

 

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Jan 12

 

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Jan 12

First mat pour

at the controls

at the business end

Sleepers - designed to take strain so lots of steel.

 

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Jan 16

Divine Guidance for the rigging

The windows - from the outside.

Jan 17

 

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Jan 22

 

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Jan 29

Jan 23, 26, 29

 

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Feb 2

Tieing one on

The Pitts

- Sealing the base of a colunn

 

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Feb 6

Feb 5

 

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Feb 12

Feb 16

 

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Feb 16

Cabin on the River Making use of a window test unit.

 

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Feb 21

Feb 27

managers - and one tender - and two guys just waiting to get back to work.

Getting ready to climb

 

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March 6

March 7

building the (first) climbing form

Looks like they plan on retrieving the braces - this is the bottom of one of the frames that holds the cross bracing up.

 

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March 12

The view from our new floor.

March 13

note how the new floor will be just below the whalers and rakers (support beams)

Strongly re-enforced for cars. The black things hold the rebar up so it is off the bottom (by at least one aggregate dia)

 

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March 20

March 26

Pulling out the first set of rakers

and a ramp