We’ve had a good stretch of sunny days in the past few weeks and have made excellent progress – I thik we’ll be seeing rain tonight and tomorrow, but we are hopign to wrap up work on Republic by December 1st! Here’s a view of the deck C-channel/nailers going in and the stone continuing to be laid on the sides of the deck structure. This is a view from atop the pile of granite gravel that was our surrounding pathway and will be again soon.
Over 100 more trees (complete with in ground irrigation) were installed by volunteers today at Pease Park. Thanks to Richard Craig and Trees for Pease, as well as the City of Austin Parks Forestry Division, TreeFolks and our many volunteers. We have another 40 or so trees to be planted sometime in the next month or two that we could not get to the park today.
Stone cladding on the "front" of the deck structure
We’re making great strides with the most of the stone cladding now in place on the outside of the deck structure, most of the major steel beams set in place in the interior, with interior stone cladding about to begin as well as the deck steel supports to be installed once all of the big steel beams are welded into place. We’re thinking, barring another wave of rainy days, about two more weeks of work until completion. Our fingers continue to be crossed.
Major Steel Beams in Place
The limestone panels (several inches thick) are going into place around the exterior of the deck at the Auction Oaks site at Republic Square. Picture from yesterday afternoon:
Limestone panels in place on both sides of stone pier
Side view showing how the panel fits into place
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