Day 204

The cabinetry is now being installed in the classrooms. The ceiling tiles are being put in around the perimeter of the classrooms and hallway leaving room for the finishing electrical and mechanical work. Final coats of drywall mud have been applied to the auditorium and the air is filled with drywall dust from all the sanding. Most of the exterior doors now have locks on them and the exterior pot lights are installed in the soffit.




Classroom cubbies



Storage cabinets at the back of a classroom



The auditorium is almost ready for primer




Heating ducts in the fine arts room

Ceiling tiles along the hallway

Exterior pot lights in the soffit

Day 196

Although I have been checking out the progress of construction and taking photos regularly since my last post, I see that with the Christmas break I have been quite delinquent in keeping the blog up-to-date.

This entry should help to catch everybody up on how things look right now:

• The classrooms are completely painted and the T-bar for the suspended ceiling is complete.
• The classroom hallway is also painted and the T-bar for the ceiling should be complete shortly.
• The offices and reception area are painted.
• Wiring for electrical, voice and data has been pulled to all areas of the expansion with subpanels starting to show up in the appropriate locations.
• Drywall in the fine arts room and the multipurpose auditorium is hung so the rest of the board should be hung by the end of the day tomorrow. Mudding, taping and sanding is progressing at a fast pace. Insulation is complete with the final section being blown into the ceiling over the auditorium today.
• Steel I-beams have been installed in the mechanical area on the south side of the auditorium. These will be used to suspend the 2 pieces of HVAC equipment that have been moved from the floor of the auditorium into this room that will be their final resting spot.
• The folding door system between the fine arts room and auditorium has been installed

Subpanel in the Electrical Room across from the office area



Feed line used for blowing in the insulation in the ceiling space over the auditorium



1 of 2 I-beams that will be used to suspend HVAC equipment



Moving the HVAC equipment into the mechanical room next to the auditorium

Taping the drywall in the auditorium

Completed T-bar for the suspended ceiling in a classroom