Today crews are working on finishing up the last bit of frames and steel for the few remaining wall panels. They will be pouring these panels on Monday to complete the wall construction phase. Also today thru next Wendesday panels will be getting stripped of their forms, supports will be exposed, and final clean-up preparations will be completed for installation of the walls panels next week.
Steel being cut to fit the form.
Stripping old forms for use in new panel forms.
Look at this beefy 7½ concrete wall panel… impressive.
This is the arched form for the rear facade.
Exposing recessed lift hooks for use by the crane.
Recessed lift hook now exposed.
A combination of single and double stacked walls with forms removed. Note the beveled edge details.
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Because there are so many walls there will be a multi-phase approach to wall construction. Walls are formed, steel laid, and poured… then repeat until all the walls are done.
Superintendent Sonny Carter oversees the concrete finishing crews.
Smoothing out the concrete.
Another whirlybird in action.
Here you can see another wall’s rebar in place on top of a wall poured a few days earlier.
Cutting forms.
These are the walls for the front facade. Note the windows formed into the concrete.
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A concrete truck feeds a boom truck to pump the 4000psi concrete into each panel frame.
Workers guide the hose from the boom into the forms.
Whirlybirds smooth out the finish.
The finished slab inside the forms.
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A “Rod Buster” installs rebar inside the wall forms.
A wide angle of the forms with rebar rods.
Some forms are double height to accomodate two walls being poured on top of each other.
Lots of steel makes for strong walls.
More forms and steel.
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The new facility will utilize 7½-inch solid concrete walls in its exterior. They are poured on-site and on the slab. Forms are built to contain the concrete when poured. Steel rods will be added for additional strength.
Here we see Sonny Carter, one of Haskell’s Project Superintendents, working on forms for the decorative reveals that will be in the wall’s exterior.
A framer nails together another form.
Wall frames are built right on the slab.
Framers nailing down the reveals.
2×8 forms with supports are nailed directly to the slab.
Forms with window farmes and reveals.
Laying out the reveals for the intricate design on the front facade.
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The new facility’s slabs are being built in 3 stages to accomodate the crane for wall installation at a later date. Shown here are the slabs that will be located under the production and post-production wings.
A wide angle shot from the front of the property.
Smoothing off the slab’s surface.
Workers clean-up the slab’s edges and joints by hand.
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