Day 89

SPECIAL POST

Today I went up in a plane with Lori and Leah to take aerial pictures of the school. Guy was our pilot from Mitchinson Flying Service. He did a great job considering it was his "second time flying the plane". Lori took the pictures through a window she opened herself (which I am sure went against every fibre in her being).

Check out these photos!

Day 86

The end of the week sees the majority of the plywood sheeting installed on the roof trusses as well as the cement firewall completed on the west end of the building.



The view of the roof over the multi-purpose room looking north

The firewall on the west side of the expansion

Day 83

I have gotten in the habit of updating this blog every Friday but I thought I would post another entry today because of the obvious progress being made on the roof system over the multi-purpose auditorium and fine arts area.

The crane is used to lift the trusses up to the waiting framers

The roof system over the auditorium

Here you can see the peaked trusses over the auditorium

Day 79

Another milestone today as the final lift of cement is poured into the exterior walls around the fine arts room and the multi-purpose auditorium. This means that the rest of the trusses should start to be installed this coming Tuesday.

As you can see from the pictures, while the Nienhuis crew is working on pouring the exterior walls, the framers were busy sheeting the roof and building the facia to match the existing building.




The top portion of the walls of the auditorium are braced for the final lift of cement



A view of the truss system from the fine arts room



The sheeting and fascia line up perfectly with the existing building

Day 72

There was lots of activity today. The roof trusses were being installed on the completed sections of the cement walls while the next "lift" of cement was being poured into the other wall sections. With the crane and the cement pump truck operating at the same time, even the area above the construction site looked busy.




It was a day for aerial acrobatics as the crane manoeuvered trusses while the cement pump was operating



The trusses of the roof system are going up quickly



A view of the framing work through a window opening

Day 65

The end of the first week of school and progress continues. The walls keep growing and the trusses for the roof system have arrived.




Entrance to the bootroom between the new classrooms and the multi-purpose room



The back (west wall) of the expansion

A view of the south wall of the multi-purpose room

The roof system was delivered yesterday and will be installed once the outside walls are completed