Posted by ppeery on December 7th, 2010

Today went pretty well….we started with finishing the upper beams as
far as we could go without the rest of the posts–and then put in the
pre assembled compression boards into the main girders.  Compression
boards function similarly to the keystone in a Roman arch–and will help
in keeping the the structure from racking in high winds or any lateral
pressure such as seismic.  It was pretty exciting with the guys up top
and me lifting up the assemblies to them with the forklift boom.

Matthew got a lot more diagonal framing done–including some of the
internal sheer walls and further function to stabilize it–as big open
shell with no floor system in the 40×90 main venue–the ends have to be
rock solid.  Also quite exciting was the beginning of the backfilling of
the rest of the foundation–which means we will be able to tackle the
rest of the building by mid next week.

I took some pictures with the floodlights on–starting to look very
architectural….and large…

george abetti – geobarns

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