Back at the arena project.
Inside shot of the future sky boxes. The boxes will have their own enclosed area with mini-bar and seating out in the arena.
The new addition on the sky box level. The plywood on the floor covers the gap between the existing building and the addition. There will be a stainless steel cover over the gap which acts as an expansion joint between the two structures. The original structure is all pre-cast concrete and the addition is a steel frame with composite deck so the two will expand and contract at different rates.
This has been one hell of a project for us. We are the smallest sub on the entire job yet we've met every milestone on the schedule.
This job landed on my desk to bid last year and I told my wife and business partner that we won't get it but we're going to bid it. Covid hit like a freight train in March 2020 and we beat out one of the largest site contractors in the area for the job, I found that out after we started the job.
Signed the contract late March '20 and started in April. Our scrappy little bunch demo'd the site and moved 20K yards of dirt so efficiently that we finished a month ahead of schedule during a very wet spring/early summer. Proud of our guys is an understatement.
April 2020
April 2021
We're getting down to the end of our part of this project. Have a change order for some inline drains and 6" PVC in pedestrian area and fine grade for the plaza out front of the arena in the pic above. Other than some loose ends we are getting close to seeing this one in the rear view mirror.
It's been one hell of a project. This project took our comfort zone, crumpled it up, set it on fire and threw it out the window. We not only performed work we've never done before but did it on time, on budget and without one injury.
The sky has become the limit.