Finishing the year strong

Years ago I used to participate in long distance running races and olympic distance triathlon's.  My training regiments included "track work-outs" with like minded individuals.  I'll always remember the coach would bark out commands offer encouragement as we crossed the finish line on every distance set. " Finish strong. Don't slow down. Run all the way through the finishline."

Well, here we find ourselves at the end of 2012 and we have multiple crews working hard.  One crew works at finishing off the main entrance (left) while another crew works at setting the side entrance (right).  Simultaneously, window and door frames are being added to the addition.

Hard and persistent work does lead to noticeable progress. Commenting on my running days: after each set, we'd get 15 seconds rest and do it all over again.  It amounted to quite a workout during that 1 hour and in the end we all turned out better, stronger and faster.  Not surprisingly, one of the participants was a part of the 2000 summer Olympics team.

Beginning in the new year, these crews will continue to work hard on this 2nd phase of our project.  Follow our progress regularly as we share stories on the transformation of this once aged building into our new corporate campus with state of the art features, a beautiful showroom and designer center, LEED certification, and  more.

Building Progression

 

Significant advances have been made in the past five weeks.  The addition that will house part of our design and sales team now has a roof.  The floor is currently being prepared with sufficient subflooring and the installation in floor level electrical and data conduit, thereby avoiding having to use floor to ceiling power poles. 

  What is not seen is that we have begun using parts of the 60,000 square foot warehouse to manage the distribution of large projects and to begin storing product that will eventually become part of our showroom and offices. 

These are exciting times.  Multiple trades are working simultaneously. One such example is that the window and glass company has carefully measured each window and installed energy efficient glass in all window openings - which will serve as another contributing factor in our planned LEED certification.