The Project

No doubt many of you are wondering just what is going on over here? Lazuli is without a doubt the writer in the family but I am so excited about the project I want to share so here goes. There are many different projects happening around here at the moment, but here are three big ones. First a new shipping warehouse with audio/video building. Second a new residence building. Third a remodel and small addition to the printery to allow for the installation of a second printing press.

Here is a picture of the branch as seen from Google Earth. The biggest roof at the bottom right hand side is the printery. Between the left side edge and the swimming pool about center you see a dark grey square which is the new residence building. At top of the picture there are lots of little white rectangles, those are the modular housing they have set up and just below that is the big red rectangle of dirt that is the new shipping warehouse and audio video building. 

This is what the residence building looks like at the moment.

Here is what the new shipping warehouse/audio video building looks like at the moment. Right now it looks like a bunch of dirt but they have started pouring some footings.

This picture is off to the side but the equipment in it gives it more perspective...

The building itself is 16,000 sq meters and the audio video wing is 3000 sq meters, if you are trying to put that into square feet like I was let me help, its about 204,514 sq feet or, really really big. An American football field is 57,600 sq ft. The new shipping warehouse has to be built so that shipping can move out of the printery and it can be remodeled in time so that when the new press arrives there is a place to put it. The next year will be busy...

What are we working on? Well I (Matt) am assisting another brother to look after the residence building. The majority of the work being done here is by contractors so I am a small part of the day to day interaction. Lazuli has been helping with quality control on concrete. She helps collect fresh concrete from the delivery trucks, log samples and eventually break the samples to see how strong the concrete is. When they don't need her there she helps out in the office.

Well that's the project, hope I didn't bore you to much, I will turn things back over to Lazuli  for the next post....