Moving, Work, Life
Well if you are wondering why we are slacking on our blogging these days it is because we are getting ready to move this weekend. We are moving into our first house on Saturday. Janna is doing a great job of packing and she said Stone has been really good at helping.
Van is getting big. When he is on his belly, he pushes himself up to where his hips are off the floor so he can see what is going on. He has a death grip. He likes to grab everything and watch out if his fingernails are long.
I am still working on the Palazzo Verdi building in Greenwood Village, CO. Since I got here I have helped supervise the placing of about 4000 Cubic yards of concrete. These are pictures of some of the recent pours we have done. Above is a 1 foot thick slab on the first floor. It took 210 cubic yards of concrete to complete. 
On the upper floors we do topping slabs. These are set to a finished floor elevation and then power-troweled. The trowel you see above is the burner. He trowels at a high speed and actually gives it a burned-in finish that is so shiny it is reflective like Zambonied ice.
This picture above is the building after they finished placing all of the structural pieces of precast, or the "shell." That is a concrete pumper pumping up concrete to the 11th floor. We have only 2 more topping slabs to do on the building which will be tomorrow and Friday.
This piece was left out so several pieces of mechanical equipment could go inside using the crane. This piece had just been setting on the roof, waiting to take its place. Technically once it was put in, the structural shell was complete. I was one of the few who actually saw it.
Ever wonder what it looks like from the top of a crane? Here you go. I was actually in the building, but it is a good view from the top down.
These are the front pieces for the entry way canopy. They were the final precast pieces on the job. They aren't structural pieces, just cosmetic and to keep the precipitation off of the entry way.
This was the pour this morning. You can see the crane and concrete pump were in pretty tight quarters. The crane had to finish setting the canopy and the pump only has access through the front curtain windows. Everything worked out fine.
