22 August 10
The roof was "topped out" during the week of 16 to 21 August. This is our Topping Out Party on Sunday 22 August. There was short notice for the party, and not much publicity, but we ended up with good weather and a great attendance.
The topping out party is a European tradition which occurs when the last beam is put in place. A tree nailed to the last beam signifies the completion of the frame. The beam should be painted white and is signed by the workmen involved, but we did not have space. There have been over 200 islanders and friends who have donated time, equipment or money to this project so far.
This is a view of the rafters over the domed structure. These are cut from 14" high LVL beams. The undercut is reused for the wings of the curve which extend over the flat roof.
13 Aug 10
Cutting rafters for the curved roof from Multillam beams. John cutting, Neil watching, Chris supervising, Doug on the ladder taking the picture.
13 Aug 10
The nominally flat roof is completely framed. The roof slopes slightly to drain water to the front and back. Cant strips will capture water at the edges for collection and transfer to a storage tank. The rafters are built up to allow space for R40 insulation. Roof framing by Rookie Moyls and crew.
The pony walls to support the curved rafters are installed and one curved rafter has been put in place to check the fit.
18 July 10
During June an engineering review of the building framing was carried out to see where members could be further strengthened for seismic resistance. One result was this Multillam beam over the 14'-6" span of the treatment room. Multillam is an engineered wood product which is essentially a very thick plywood with the grain of all the layers oriented in the same direction.
19 May 10
Exterior walls installed with most or the sheathing. Interior walls being framed by Blue Sky crew.
4 May 2010
A 1.5" layer of concrete encases the heating tubing in the floor. The walls can now proceed.
28 April 10
In floor heating tubes installed by Tom Rutherford. These will be encased in concrete, using the 2x4's at the wall locations as forms.
31 March 10
Starting to lay out the walls full scale.
23 Mar 10
This is the 6' x 15' construction office which will become the support building for the dental bus. Now it is a repository for tools, supplies and drawings. Later it will provide space for the dental bus electrical panel, supplies, compressor and vacuum pump.
The corner of the clinic foundation can just be seen at the left of the photo. The bus will be stationed to the right.
23 Mar 10
Dueling backhoes. Naz and Peter K backfilling around the foundation and cleaning up the site.
23 March 10
Floor installation under way by Ian Maclean and crew.
The white pipes sticking up are for roof water collection. The perimeter drain is below this level.
16 Mar 10
This is the completed foundation. The reinforced concrete walls sit on a continuous 16" footing which is pinned to the bedrock. The walls are 8" wide. The posts which will support floor beams are also pinned to the bedrock. The floor of the crawl space is evened out with gravel, waterproofed with a plastic barrier and finished with a skim coat of concrete.
16 Feb 10
Chris pointing out the load path which will connect the building walls through the foundations to the bedrock for seimic resistance. These are special 7/8" diameter bolts intended for this service. The load will then be transferred down by the rebar to the rods which are drilled and glued into the bedrock. There are two such paths in each wall, which will connect to special rigid "shear wall" sections of each wall.
9 Feb 10
The first pour. The day the building started to go up instead of down. This is at the Northeast (downhill) corner.
2 Feb 10.
Tim. Scott and Chris.
2 Feb 10.
Chris admiring an empty epoxy tube. This is the southwest corner of the
building, where four "anchors" have been installed to bind the footings
to the bedrock. Each anchor point consists of two pieces of rebar in an
X configuration drilled at least 30" into the sandstone and cemented in
place. Each individually could be ripped loose, but in combination they
will provide the anchor for a defined seismic path up through the
buiding. Three of the anchors can be seen in this photo - the fourth is
out of the picture to the right. There is a similar set at the
northeast corner
January 2010. Jed clearing the last of the overburden off the bedrock under the building. North is to the left. Sollans Road and Roburn Roads visible in the upper left. The bedrock is layered sandstone, except for a small outcrop of harder sandstone in the southwest corner (lower right in the photo).
November 2009. Looking south from the location of the new building site toward the Health Care building, across the septic field. Temporary water tank shown beyond the field.
November 2009. Initial exploratory excavation. The red cone is at the north end of the existing parking lot, from where the first picture was taken in July. Log pile in background.
November 2009. Some of the firewood crew.
November 2009. The firewood cutting operation.
October 2009. Slash pile burning. Because this was close to a school, this could only been done on a clear day with no wind.
October 2009. Slash piles - there were five of them. These had to be burned on site to avoid being subject to stumpage.
October 2009. Douglas fir logs for which there was no market. They were cut up for firewood, and sold with proceeds to the project.
Chris with the winning ticket in the quilt draw. The draw was intended to be held at the Fall Fair, but we had to state the date of the draw on the tickets and the fair was not yet scheduled. Regulations would not permit a change.
August 2009. Garth, delighted to be helping.
June 2009. Members of the Clinic Committee with Bill Cannon's model. Members shown are, left to right, Chris Weixelbaumer, Karin Ristau, John Grunwald and John Heinegg behind, Jim Garton (chair), Jeff Pollitt. Not present are John Bennett, Andrew Carmichael, Doug Christie, Verna Kimmerly, Mike Parrish and Oakley Rankin. Jed's ever-present truck in the backgound.