The whole DVA team went over to the new facility to officially inaugurate the space… a very nice gathering. Special thanks to the folks at Haskell Construction for being so generous and accomodating in making this event possible.

The DVA staff.

Tony Haines, president of DVA, talks about the size of his new office.

Clark explains the flow of the new facility.

Bill Scheerer pretends to explain something technical to Chris McFall, who graciously nods his head and moves on.

Tony pops the cork on the celebratory champagne.

Britt McTammany toasts with Maria Maglio and Bill Scheerer.

Toasts to future success.

Clark, Britt and Tony toast their staff.

Here’s to many more years of great success.

And cheers to our clients and vendors for making this all possible.

Work continues on the steel roof structures. Today preliminary installation for the joists in the production wing were completed. Ironworkers also started doing the welding to secure all the joists to the wall panels. Concrete crews are finishing the backfill in preparation for the slab pour back and work on the center slab will start soon.

The front facade.

One of four structural support columns.

Steel and concrete meet to form a solid structure.

Safety can is making friends.

Work continues on building the structural roof elements. In addition, workers are also finishing concrete elements like grinding rough edges, backfilling the walls on the inside and outside of the structure and preparing for the slab pour-back.

Ironworker reaches for a steel support.

Steel elements slide into recesses in the concrete panels.

The finished roof structure in the post-production wing.

Welding steel support plates.

Walls are backfilled with dirt.

Grinding edges on the concrete panels

More edges need grinding.

Wall panels are now securely bolted to the footer.

Tools of the trade.

Electricians dig trenches for electrical conduit.

Work on the structural steel for the roof started today and will continue through next week.

Steel roof joists lined up nice and pretty.

All concrete panels will be welded and bolted to the footer.

A new crane is onsite to get steel into place.

Tools of the ironworker’s trade.

Preparing to lift some steel.

The first column is being lowered into place.

Steel column is secured into position.

Chris McFall and Britt McTammany did some experiementation with digital SLR time lapse with some nice results.

This video shows the rear of the building being assembled:

This video shows part of the front facade’s assembly:

Today the remaining panels were set and the exterior shell has been completed. Work on the steel roof structures starts on Monday. Special thanks to all the members of Haskell’s Concrete Division for doing an amazing job. The heat and dust alone are almost unbearable but these guys are amazing and they have been putting in lots of hours to keep us on schedule and looking good. It is truly impressive watching them work.

Tony Haines, Clark Fivek, and Britt McTammany pose in their new space.

The front entry panels almost finished.

The final panel is being set.

Sonny Carter gets the job done.

Clark poses with the Nox-Crete barrel.

The front facade is nearing completion.

A view of the inside.


The front entry begins installation.

The view from the back of the building.

Workers grout under every panel by hand.

Rough edges are ground off.

The first of the panels for the front facade are lifted.

The first panel on the front facade gets placed on the footer.

What an amazing day. The first 16 wall panels (of a total of 36) were raised in about 5 hours this afternoon. The crane is HUGE and is over 200 tons (415,000 pounds) and has got to be almost 120 feet in the air… you can actually see it from our current offices.

After the 4 hours needed to assemble and rig the crane, crews got started about 1:15 and by 5:30 we had what you see at the bottom of this post… amazing.

The second corner in the post-production wing gets installed.

Moving a panel into position.

Look at the size of that thing. Each track is 21 tons!

Slowly the panel is lowered into position.

A wide angle view of the progess on both wings.

Popping a panel off the slab. Safety can is on the job!


Bolting down the support braces.

Sonny Carter directs the crane operator to lower the panel into position on the footer.

Crews remove the lifting hooks after the panel is securely in position.

Sonny, project superintendant, and John, the crane operator, discuss logistics.

The is the back of the post-production wing. These two windows bring light into the two new audio suites.

The day’s progress on the post-production wing.

Crews worked today on getting the footer preped for wall erection tomorrow. The crane is scheduled to be on-site late this afternoon and be assembled early in the morning.

Footer marked for rebar kick dowel drilling.

A jobsite should never be without its safety can.

A masonry saw takes a break.

All measurements are double checked against an on-site set of plans.

Every panel is measured and marked.

Shims await their final positions in the next few days.

Rebar kick dowels are ready-to-go.

Wall panels are clean and ready.

These kick dowels are waiting to be inserted into the footer.

A worker drills the footer for kick dowel installation.

Workers drill and cut the bottom of a wall panel.

Footer with kick dowel in place.

Crews spent today making preparations for the crane which should be on-site for assembly tomorrow morning.

Workers cleaning the site.

These chains and hooks will be used by the crane to lift the panels into place.

Here are several of the panels with supports bolted-on.

Detailed view of support bolted into wall panel.

Masons patch minor imperfections in the panels.

View down the edge of the slab along one of the footers… cleaned, marked and ready for walls.

More clean-up still yet to be completed.

The last of the wall panels were poured today and crews began the clean-up of the site in preparation for the arrival of the crane on Wednesday. Preparations include stripping all the wall forms, cleaning the footers, exposing support connections for the hooks and tie downs, and removing all debris from the slab and surrounding areas.

Wide angle of the job site from the front.

Clark Fivek checks out the view from his future office.

Now that’s a crowbar. Worker removes nail holding wall forms down to the slab.

Workers remove a wall form.

This is a future window in the front facade.

Here you can see the recess detail on the side of a panel.

Another form is removed.

The top arch of the rear entry panel.
See the previous post for the same angle prior to the pour.


Britt McTammany pretends to be doing something constructive.