Making sure this building won't float away....

         As we've mentioned already,  our maintenance crew has taken on the responsibility of pouring the foundations for the new building.  Today they started pouring the first half of the building footers.  Footers are the cement that the foundation sets on.  For just half of the building they called in 4 cement trucks.

This is the foundation for the North west wall footers.  The larger spots are  where the towers will be.  The towers are what the metal beams of the building sit on.  

These are a couple of our maintenance crew screeting (or smoothing) out the cement as the truck  pours it.  

This is Dave, our general contractor and head of maintenance   he is working on setting  vertical pieces of re-bar in the wet cement for the wall that will be sitting on top of this footer.  

You can see where the re-bar is sticking out oft he cement.  That is where the walls of the new gym will be.  

  By the end of the day we also hope to have the footers for the pylons poured.  The pylons are where the internal beams of the building will set.  they will be holding a significant amount of weight.  To help support and distribute that weight the footers are connected to those pylons by re-bar.

Here you can see 5 big holes in the ground.  These are where the pylons will be.  At the bottom of this picture you can see one of the forms (pieces of wood designed to form the cement) in the hole.  

Here you can see the re-bar that is used to reinforce the footer for the pylon.  By the end of the day all 5 of these will be filled with cement.  Each one of these footers is about 4 and half feet square.