Now this starts to get really fun. The bloggers from The Hudson Companies get ready to put some beams into the ground...After a couple of weeks of excavation, we’re ready to start putting stuff into the ground rather than removing it. Yesterday, our subcontractor arrived and parked his rig at the site. The rig will be used to install solider beams for shoring the edges of the property—everywhere but where there are existing buildings to be underpinned.

When we arrived at the trailer on Wednesday around 9a.m….

…a bulldozer was smoothing a couple of truckloads of gravel into a ramp at the corner of Third & Bond, while the rig waited on the street.

The subcontractor in charge of the rig, Empire, is busy despite the economic downturn. When a sub is busy, sometimes you end up waiting around for them. We don’t want to wait because that means we lose time on our job. Empire’s arrival today was marked with photographs, phone calls and emails back to the office. You’d think Obama was driving the rig given our excitement.

Empire will start installing the beams tomorrow. A vibration monitor consultant will be on-site to make sure things don’t get too crazy. Next week we’ll start the mini-pile pull test so that the underpinning work can begin. Within the month, we should have all of our piles in place knock on wood.

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