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Progress on exterior and interior

Photos from March 21, 2006

Exterior framing and insulation continues, as well as work on the roofs.  Here the crane is lifting a block of roofing material to the top for installation.

Interior framing on the first floor is about a 3rd done.  Here is where one of the TACC conference rooms will go, and inside are a couple of wrapped packages of dry-wall for eventual installation.

Here bathrooms on the first floor are getting framed in.  The plumbing here is pretty far along.

The stairway in the connector is in place, and all the steel close to the BEG has been covered in a fire retardant. 

Here's a view of the connector from the other side, 3rd floor. 

Activity on the 2nd floor: installing the duct work....

....and getting ready for the ducts on the 3rd floor.

The roof of the 1st floor east extension (viewed here from the 3rd floor) is largely complete - lots of tar and tar paper.

An extra concrete pad (~3" higher than the surrounding floor) will support the air handler on the 3rd floor. Chilled water pipes behind the worker extend ~8 ' above the floor, where the air conditioning water will enter and exit the handlers.

View east from the 3rd floor.  The lake in the background is the Pickle campus' new retention pond.  It rained (finally!) yesterday morning.  Better get my fishing pole.

The view south from my office location on the 3rd floor - if you squint you can make out the bluebonnets in the field next to the Water Resource Lab's facility.

Down on the ground, south of the 1st floor west extension, a backhoe is digging the ramp for the loading dock next to TACC's computer room.

Someone used this exterior frame beam to draw a map of Austin (note highways 183 and 71) before it was installed.  I wonder where they were going.

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