Solidifying

The finished Children's Area expansion

The Meeting Room and Young Adult expansions

Young Adult expansion and Classrooms

Sidewalk and entrance stairs

Birdseye Views!

The Entrance

The Children's Area

The Meeting Room

The latest changes

Bricks are being laid all over the building

The classroom expansion in the back is taking shape.

Creating the roof

The men from Georgia Metals were out this morning running a metal fabricator press, producing the lengths of roofing needed to cover the additions.

A giant roll of metal is unspooled and fed into the fabricator.

There is a sharp blade at this end that cuts the sheets after the correct amount has been run through and formed into shape.

Inside the fabricator the sheet metal is formed, and then is directed out and onto a series of supports.

The finished lengths are stacked together and will end up on our new roof soon.

Starting the Classroom expansion

They have prepared the pad and footings and will be delivering the cement Monday, September 12.

Taking Shape

The meeting room expansion is taking a more solid shape this week

This is the view on the rather gloomy September 4

The changes by the much-cheerier September 9

Work on the side patrons rarely see

Here's what the rear of the library looked like before construction.

This tree made it through severe damage during the tornado of 2006 and now construction.

Prepping the soil for expansion.

Removal of the bricks

Temporary wall at employee entrance

This will all be part of the new circulation area.

Trusses

Angles

Lifting the trusses into place with a crane

Setting trusses in place

The incredible shrinking library

They will be taking down the wall on the left hand side of the photograph. It is a load bearing wall and so the temporary wall had to be built quite far into the library to support the weight of the roof. The new circulation area and workroom will be built in this general area.

On August 25 they added a door.

Happy surprises from all the disturbance

Wildflowers!

Vinca (not normally a wildflower, this one seems to have escaped from a garden)

Portulaca Pilosa

Cassia Obtusifolia, Coffee-weed

Jacquemontia Tamnifolia

Walls are going up

With the plywood walls up, you can get a better idea of what the new space will be like.
This will be the expanded children's area

This is the expanded entrance

Some timeline photos of the front

Concrete and Foundations Appear

Although a lot of work has been done since the last blog post, much of it has been of the quiet concrete nature.

They dug the footings and built the foundation for the entrance expansion.

And for the children's area expansion.

Then they filled the foundation to create the pad for the children's expansion.

They also filled the foundation for the entrance expansion.

Then they dug the footings for the rear expansion.

They also dug the footings for the northwest expansion.

They laid the foundation for the rear west expansion.

Here is another view of the northwest expansion.

The latest expansion work

Footings for the new meeting room and plumbing for the new restrooms

Footings for the new children's area

Starting work on the footings for the storage and kitchen area of the new meeting room

Cutting out the soil for the parking lot expansion