Concrete poured for foundation

What used to be just a hole in the ground is now filled with concrete and rebar. In the past few days, we’ve poured concrete to fill in around the footers and to start the walls.

That’s 240 linear feet of concrete for the walls, and 300 more for the footers. It makes for a sound foundation.

Now we’re back-filling, adding new fill to create a sound base on which to erect the building, and shipping the old material elsewhere to be re-used. We would have loved to use the fill on-site, but the soil just wasn’t solid enough to handle 60-odd tons of steel, and tons more concrete, conduit, furniture, equipment and people that will sit atop it every day.

The structural steel from Schenectady Steel is due July 27, and we’ll begin piecing it all together by July 28. And before that all happens, we’ll have to install the stormwater retention tanks and do the preparatory work for water and sewer service.