Clarendon Construction - November 2010, post 1

I have some catching up to do on the Clarendon Construction series. Starting with this post, I’ll have a series of three reports on everything going on around us there at the office. The posts are about the crane installation in the air rights development, the installation of the new logo sign on the building I work in, and then some miscellaneous updates from the north block development I’ve been watching go up across the street.

Earlier this month they brought in the tower crane for the Clarendon Views site near my office. I have been calling this the “air rights” development because of the unique concept it involves, building over the old sanctuary space of the church.

Once the excavation and support lagging was completed, they built a small foundation pad for the crane to stand on. Concrete trucks came and went continuously overnight to complete the single pour, and then the pad was left to cure for about 10 days.

Then one beautiful fall morning trucks began to arrive with the components, which were carefully assembled over the course of two days. In one of these photos you can see a group of workers at the end of the in-progress boom, waiting for the end section to be lifted to them so they could attach it to the rig.

So now we have another crane gracing our skyline here in Clarendon. It’s been about 9 months since they took the others down – people are getting used to having such an iconic feature on the horizon around here.