Wednesday 27 February 2008

Specification speculation

As I suspected, nobody showed up on site today, which most likely means that nobody will be showing up for the rest of the week.

Some more details on what the engineer is up to: his best guess is that the extension as envisaged will require nine steel-reinforced concrete piles to a depth of eight metres -- into the bedrock. Changing the structure to make it lighter will likely only reduce the number of piles to eight.

The biggest cost in doing this will be the cement. Precisely what that cost will be, remains to be confirmed.

More news when I get it.

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