missed shot

here's the latest update on the construction. The top's been capped and some netting has been set up (I don't know why).
I had the perfect picture this morning, but, once again, I couldn't find the #*$&)#&$ camera until hours later (it was in the other camera bag. Not the "other camera bag" - the other camera's bag, if that makes any sense).
Since I don't have the image to show you, I'll just have to paint the picture with words.
So, see the yellow thing-a-ma-bob up on the top floor? That's a little mini-crane that the construction workers are using to haul up cement blocks. This morning, there was a guy, standing on top of a barrel, right at the edge next to the crane, taking cement blocks from a one guy on the ledge and handing them up to a guy standing on the roof of the building. With another guy operating the crane, swinging the thing back and forth not 2 feet from this guy prancing around on the top of a barrel hanging over the edge of the building.
I guess "safety is priority #1" is universal.

construction update

Been a while since I posted a construction update. Looks like they've walled in the lower floors, and continue to build upwards. Notice that the construction guys have gone through a technological revolution, and now have a pulley system in place to get things up (and down) the building -- the guy in blue coveralls standing in the middle floors is using it. Based on the lack of scaffolding, I'm guessing that they're starting to use the internal stairs to get up and down the floors.

Wonder why I keep posting these construction pictures? It's so one can do this - it's like one of those flip book type things - only in reverse

construction workers

I can't tell if this would be a fun job or not. Dangerous, sure. But it might beat sitting in an office and staring at a computer all day.

construction update

It's been a long time since I posted any pictures of the construction progress. Couple more floors.

Construction Update

There haven't been one of these for a while.

construction - missed a week

I missed a week of construction development while I was in CA. Looks like the last floor has been set and the iron based latticework for the next floor is well underway. I keep forgetting to take a picture of laundry days on the weekends - when the construction guys string up lines between the posts and hang all their clothes. Notice the stairway used to get up to the top floor. So much for safety standards...

construction update

putting the next floor down - they frame the floor with wood, and then fill in the concrete.
They're almost done with the floor now (this picture taken yesterday).

Construction Outside the Bedroom Window

I'm going to make a photo blog of the building construction that's going on outside the bedroom window and down a block or two.
I find it amazing that the construction guys seem to be doing all the work without any power tools of any sort. So far, the most advanced equipment they've used is some sort of pump and hose to pour the cement.
I watched them put the floor in on Tuesday. They've spent the rest of the week adding to the steel skeleton that becomes the central pillars.
Kind of hard to tell in the next picture, but you can see some guys walking on blanks between two of the pillars. No cranes - they carry all of this stuff up from the ground.
(you can see a picture of what the building will/should look like at the bottom of the image.)