Shotcrete is flying!

Beginning at the end of last week, and continuing into this week the hard working Evergreen crew has been shooting concrete.

All hands on deck! CONCRETE’S HERE! Once the mud starts flowing, it’s all hands on the pour. Concrete is dirty, it’s heavy, and it’s messy. And it isn’t going to wait for anyone or anything. Once that truck gets loaded at the batch plant, that concrete has a clock. Tick-tock. Tick-tock.

Since the very beginning of construction the Evergreen crew has been out there rain or shine. Some of you might have noticed that it’s pretty cloudy in these pictures.

The week they started to pour I’m quite sure the concrete plant must have thought they were out of their minds. It was raining, and the concrete plant called to confirm that Evergreen was going to cancel and Evergreen told them, nope, SEND IT! Evergreen’s crews are fast at what they do, but they also have a schedule to keep. Unfortunately I didn’t get any pictures, but the rumor is they set up a big heavy duty tarp as a rain tent and worked through it. I’ve been around construction, and involved in a lot of construction projects, and I’ve never, ever seen a crew working outdoors pour if rain it was supposed to rain. It’s a fair bit more work, even if you have a way to keep the rain off, and most crews would just let their schedule slip.

Taken in the morning of Monday the 2nd of October you can see that Evergreen has poured a chunk of the pump track, multiple sections of the combi-bowl. They’ve got rebar on the ground and the truck has pulled up in this picture to start shooting.

And here in this picture, only a couple hours after the truck backed up, you can really see what the transition looks like in concrete! The finishing isn’t done yet in the last pictures I was able to stay to get Monday.