Archive for October 2019

After much anticipation, the concrete slab has finally been poured! This is a big milestone for us — the slab is the solid foundation for our new shelter, and we are thrilled to see its tangible form brought into reality. What you see in the pictures is the footprint of the building itself; walkways, sidewalks,…

Marietta Water came out last week to install the new water supply. After they completed their work, our crew dug the trench to run the new line to the building footprint.   Rain over the weekend delayed our plans to pour the concrete slab today, and rain forecast for tomorrow has pushed it back to…

Plumbing has been roughed in ahead of the slab being poured. Working from the engineering drawings for the water & gas and drainage plans, the crew dug the trenches then laid the pipe and installed stub-outs.   The pad has been prepared, going from bare earth to gravel to plastic, topped by wire mesh. The…

This week the crew completed installation of the CrystalStream Water Quality Vault, bringing us to near completion of the stormwater management facility!   Stormwater management is a complex and costly necessity in modern construction. Our new parking lot will have surface drains that route stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces to an underground pipe, which will…