There’s been a lot of construction going on. Right outside our department it goes back and forth from being a muddy mess, gaping holes in the ground, big trucks moving big items, or sometimes not anything. Last week, the concrete floor was laid. (New photos coming soon). In addition to all the outside work, we planned to have our kitchen over-hauled. The week before Christmas, we emptied out all the old, broken, and damaged cabinets in preparation for the new work toRead more
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QuikPost: Just beaming with development
OK, so the title is cheesy… but I think it speaks for itself. Here are some pictures of the beams that have gotten put up for the extension on the building. Part of the new building will be the Animal Department support hall, while the other part will be an extension of the exhibits shop.Read more
The walls are going up!
Well, they may not be walls, because I know nothing about construction. But something is going up! Sherry recently did a post on the construction that is happening outside of our department support hall as we are extending the building. Well, yesterday they started to put up some of the bricks to the new addition, which is kind of cool because it starts to paint a picture of what this new part of the building might look like. As youRead more
QuikPost: Construction outside our office
It’s a mess outside the animal department support space right now due to construction. It’s great that our area will get some additional space, but last week I couldn’t even walk outside out door- I was met with large tubes (about 2′ diameter), piles of rocks, construction equipment, and mud. It’s now just flat mud, which isn’t much fun either. The next stage is pouring footers, which should be just as bad as this phase. We’ll keep you posted andRead more