day . 81 | o3

so this morning i woke up with a massive headache. aka migraine. i thought it might get better as the morning went on. so i got ready and headed out the door. well on the drive to site i got super nauseous, almost threw up twice, no fun. robert and adrian could tell i did not feel good at all so they sent me home to rest. i have slept on and off all day, and the migraine is still not gone. this sucks.

day . 8o | o2

it was another slow start to the day today. we all arrived on site and there were a lot more people there than yesterday. while waiting on a wood delievery for the all of the interior framing, we set up the site, put out extension cords, set up the chop saw etc. the truck got there at 8:30 and we waited for it to be unloaded. while the lowes man was getting it off the truck cody and i got on the roof to help lauren and josh finish the rafter spacers. they needed help to push them back into place on the last few. there was tons of standing water on the roof that cody and i had to lay in so it was a messy start to the day. once we got done helping them, we moved to ferrying wood into the community area. there were about 5 bundles that were delivered but we got them all moved faster than i would have anticipated. after all the wood was moved we got to start working on the interior framing. we decided though that it would be smart to put the ceiling joist up before we put the walls in so we set up the transit, and after about 4 tries finally got a level line for the rim joist. i kept hitting the transit when we were half way though making the line and we would have to go back re level and start over! it was super frustrating. caroline and megan cut the 2 2x12's that we needed so we were able to start putting them up. we got the 2 ledgers done for the office area and the ledger over the laundry room done before i left for the day. it was a slow day. a lot of waiting and a lot of people standing around. i think though that after everyone gets in the groove it will move more quickly. i sure hope so considering we only have 9 weeks. scary. so we can start framing the interior partitions tomorrow!

day . 79 | o1

so today was the first day back on site after a 2 week "summer" break to start the summer session with a new crew of people, plus the 7 of us that carried over from last semester. 8am came WAY too early, considering i could not sleep, maybe from anticipation maybe not who knows, but everyone filtered in. robert went over the intro stuff, insurance, tools, waivers, safety, all the administration things that we have to start with. after that we led everyone on a tour of the building to discuss the different areas, get everyone oriented on the site, we took everyone up on the green roof, and finished our tour in the matron suite. everyone left and went to GURP but the 7 of us, team leaders, stayed to get some things on site set up. lauren, josh, cody and i set up the scaffolding on the east side of the building to work on the rafters. once we had that set up some people began to filter back from GURP so we got to work cutting 1x3's that we needed to use as spacers for all of the rafter tails to keep them from getting all "wonky". cody and i got started on the back set of rafters and got about 6 or 7 done, explained how to do them , and handed it off to a set of new people. hopefully we did a good job explaining so they understood well enough to finish them this afternoon. overall it was a semi-productive first day back considering it rained on and off all day and there were tons of new people in and out all day. i am anxious to see how everyone this semester works together to get tasks done. i am glad to be working with cody again though, i know we can count on each other. [:

day . 78

today was our review on site. it was bittersweet. the semester has flown by. i cannot believe that we have been working over 3 months together. it seems like only a few weeks. i feel like i have learned so much this semester not only about the building process but about myself as a person as well. i am excited for the summer to start but will miss the group that i worked with this semester. i have gotten so much closer to all of my classmates and would not trade this experience for anything, i know that it is invaluable. it was hard to fathom standing in the building today that we built it, from the ground up, the whole thing. it hasn’t sunk in yet. i look forward to the day it does. i think it will be amazingly overwhelming.

day . 77

so today was our last workday and in [us] fashion it poured rain! but we worked anyway. we finished clearing out all the brush and loading it into the container. then somehow or another i was voted to get in the container on top of all the poison ivy infested brush and mash it down. so i got in and jumped around and got to packed down and kept it from hanging out over the edges of the container, i wrestled with a huge branch and it won and hit me in the shin so hard. this was the first time all semester than i got hurt enough to stop what i was doing. it sucked. but luckily all the brush was cleaned up and we had a meeting about our review on friday to get tasks divided up between everyone and decide what we were going to prepare. we got to go home early!

day . 76

so today was clean up day! the concrete was being floated in half the building so we could not go in. it did look amazing though!! a large container arrived right at one and parked on the street so we could dispose of all the wood that was not good and all the left over icf’s. we started moving the icf’s to the container and it was filling up super fast so cody and i got in and “persuaded” them into smaller pieces. it was fun. after we busted them all up we got out and helped gather more wood around the site and unload it into the container. the first container was filled in a few hours so we had the container people come pick it up and drop off another. we then filled that one with more wood. any piece of wood that was less than 2 feet long had to be thrown away. so there was a lot to be thrown out. there seemed to be wood everywhere! once all the wood was cleaned up and we had done laps around the site riding in the georgia buckets we started cleaning out the brush. robert said there was poison ivy in it so lets hope i am not allergic. we also made corn hole things out of some of the scrap 2x4s and plywood. and i am going to make bean bags for friday! 6 came quickly and it was time to go.

day . 75

today was a pretty simple day caroline and i started by installing the doors that we made yesterday. robert claimed that hanging doors was number 3 on the list of hardest things to do besides stairs and a counterslope but it was not as difficult as one would imagine. we came to the conclusion that this was because the doors are only temporary. it was hard to get the hinges on right. about half that we attached we attached backwards so the door would therefore not swing. ha so we had to take them off and do them again. it was comical. after all the hinges were finally attached we attached the doors to the jamb. after the first one caroline and i had a good system of how to get them in. we did however have to go behind some others and trim the plywood that was hanging in some places a inch over the jamb. we were not happy about that but it as easily fixable. after all the doors were in we moved to drilling holes through the door into the jamb for #5 rebar to secure the doors closed from the inside. we tried to get all the holes drilled but everytime we started the drill battery would die in like 5 mins. we went through all the batteries and none worked. so we gave up. i then moved up onto the main roof to help put down waterproofing. that was the last task of the day so we wanted to get it done quickly to go home. once lauren k blew all the debris we started laying it down. it went pretty quickly because we had about 4 or 5 people working on it. we got done for the day around 2 which was super nice.

day . 74

today was a long day. some of us got to site at 8 to get everything ready for the inspection. i know i am going to be so sore tomorrow. we started the morning by taking out the foam and vapor barrier that was in the entrance and shoveling out the gravel. the foam was supposed to be 4 inches below the footing but in that case it was right up level with the top pf the footing. so that was no good. we got the gravel down and the vapor barrier back down and the foam in, then we moved around and measured every door opening to make sure there were no other places that needed to be shoveled down. the atrium needed to be taken down a couple of inches so we worked on that. after all the foam was at the right height, i went around and cleaned up all the plastic pieces from around the inside. we were all done around 10:45 so we sat around and waited for the inspector to get there. he cam around 11:30 and we passed!! woo hoo. after that we all went out to lunch at panera and almost all fell asleep right in our plates, it was sad. while we were eating it started to pour rain so densise called robert and we all went our separate ways and took naps. i got back to the site around 2 and started working with adam from [us]o1. we spent the afternoon making doors for all of the openings so when the slab is poured nothing or no one can get in. we also made a wall to go in the curtain wall opening on the south side. we got the wall installed and will start installing the doors tomorrow.