Update by Geoff Joyce
Hi, everyone
apart from a few hours lost time due to crane stoppage for the Tyne Valley tornadoes (the winds not the jets) work progressed unhindered over the last week. Internal walls were concreted in the Lamella outlet channels to the Actiflo building. This building is nearing structural shell completion, which we hope to achieve in the next 3 to 4 weeks. Concrete was placed to Filter gallery walls (low level) and to the base to Filters 1,2 and 3, by the end of the week.
Backfilling with stone has commenced around the Actiflo building (it's a crime to have to hide the external walls with such a nice finish to them).
Progress photos are attached.
In a regular mid-week design review meeting on Wednesday, the contractor proposed using the latest technology in ventilation ducting. This consists of a fabric material duct in place of the usual metal ducting favoured in the past. The product offers easier installation and maintenance, so will be considered by the team on its merits. One of the meeting attendees revealed that he has actually seen this type of product in large stores,whilst sitting outside ladies' fitting rooms awaiting his wife's latest decision on choice of evening wear, and gazing skywards. In the silence which followed this revelation, I imagined the pair of them at the weekend in the midst of the Kirkleatham Brocante event, he with an optical plummet strapped to his knowledge-box, she with her newly-acquired Marks and Spencer (other brands are available) frock, purposely tailored for a neck brace device, so that both might gaze heavenwards with ease in order to inspect the newly-installed sprinkler system just below the museum ceiling while soft music plays in the background.
If anybody should happen upon a fellow who appears to be lost in indoor celestial wonderment, please leave him be. He is not actually suffering unwanted side-effects of whatever out-of-date medication he has mistakenly consumed - he's actually carrying out research for the improvement of our project.
Yet more confirmation that "there's nowt as queer as folk"!
Enjoy the weekend.
Geoff
Please Login in order to comment on this update.