Freshly Poured Concrete

The day started off rainy, but ended up sort of sunny. This morning the pumper truck arrived along with the concrete crew. Soon the cement trucks started showing up and they poured all the big blocks that will support the new Missions Building.

This pumper truck had a tremendous reach; could almost reach all the way across the building, but they ended up having to move it to reach the blocks on the east end. Once the building is up you won't see these blocks, but when all is said and done this building will have some deep roots and solid anchors.

Here are some views of the truck as they got started this morning.

Ready to Pour

Ready to pour had a couple of meanings this week. Tuesday and Wednesday we got a "bunch" of rain. The sky was ready and it poured.

Thursday and Friday have been just beautiful and even warm days. The folks working on the concrete forms have finished the first stage of forming the concrete blocks that anchor the various steel posts. These forms passed inspection and now we are scheduled to start pouring concrete on Monday!!

When that happens we will get some pictures put up of that process as well. We are going to be putting in the concrete in three steps - first the blocks, then the perimeter, and the slab last. Then once the slab cures we can start on putting up the building.

The north wall

Just one of the blocks

Close up of the bolts