steel on site

Structural steel started arriving on site today. The local steel fabricator, who has drilled and welded the steel members according to our prefabricator's digital fabrication drawings, delivered about a third of the steel this morning (the rest should follow on Monday). Our steel erector offloaded the steel columns with a huge crane. Ecosteel's Sam Cubis flew in from Utah to check on the delivery.

The large pieces of steel are sitting on wood sleepers to keep them off the ground. The smaller pieces are locked away in a storage container. On Monday, we're hoping the erector will start setting the columns in place, at which point we'll find out if the anchor bolts are where they ought to be.

coral

Ok, so this is clearly not the tail end of the Prius. One advantage to also having an SUV is being able to raid the neighbor's dumpster for coral rock to add to our landscape. This may end up being the solution to our ongoing dilemma of just how to finish the raised planting beds. We've dug up a fair amount of coral rock from our site, too. It's ubiquitous, and it makes for some very fertile soil.