Community Beam Signing Event

IT'S OFFICIAL!

The Community Beam Signing Event will be Saturday, June 2, from 9 a.m. until 12:00 p.m.  Drop by any time in the morning and sign your name on the last beam. Together, we are making Boyden Library history.

See you there!

Beam Signing Ceremony!!

The building is going up!!  After years of discussion and work, the Boyden library addition is going up!  The construction site is alive with activity, and everyday new progress is visible.  Take a quick drive by and see everything that is happening - you won't be disappointed.

We are planning a community beam signing ceremony as the steel frame approaches completion.  We invite everyone to sign one of the last beams to be erected, and be part of library history.  Date and time will be announced, depending on construction progress.  We look forward to seeing you!

Caution: Construction Zone!

 While there is still a lot of work going on inside the building, the really exciting stuff is outside.   This picture provides an excellent perspective on how deep the foundations of the new building will go.

This is a footing for the addition.  In the background, you an see where the plinth will go.  This will ultimately present a beautiful fieldstone face to the world.

This overhead view shows the back wall of the addition.  The job looks much bigger from up here!

The whole addition footprint.  It is hard to imagine that this big dirt hole is going to be a beautiful library in less than a year!

Things are Really Cooking!

 Construction of the addition is underway!  This week, the construction crew began the first of several concrete pours of the foundation.  Next month, we'll see the steel frame being erected, and watch the skeleton of our new building come into existence.  Things are really cooking!

This is the first pouring for the new foundation!

Footing for the foundation of the new building.

It seems as if there is just as much going on inside the building as outside.    This is one of many trenches for the new mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems.  

Really Exciting Stuff!!

 There were so many cool images this week, it was really hard to pick which ones to post.  In the first photo, all the underground duct work is being ripped out.  This is the stuff that got flooded so many times.  It can only be an improvement for it to be gone! 

I also loved these images of the stairs from the first floor to the ground floor.  Seeing the building stripped down like this really highlights its "great bone structure."

Digging deep for the footings!

One of the project goals is to preserve as many of our mature trees as possible.  Cross your fingers!

Within the last week the site has been really energized with outside construction activities. If you have been by the library lately you can see there has been a flurry of activity around the site with foundations beginning to be excavated for the new addition. The elevator pit has been excavated and the site will soon have foundations poured. Late last week the beautiful Cherry tree was transplanted to its new location.  While inside the library Mechanical, and Plumbing systems are continuing to be installed while demolition of the ground floor stair is underway.

What Will We Sit On?

One of our fans recently requested information about what the inside of the new library will look like - things like furnishings and stacks, desks and reading areas.  While these plans aren't finalized, project architects Lerner Ladds Bartels drafted schematics with the proposed interior layout of furniture and fixtures.  Hope this helps!

Meanwhile, outside in the parking lot . . .

This week's post focuses on what is happening on the outside of the library.  Our on-site construction supervisor reports exciting developments.  This week, crews worked on rough grading of the old parking lot, and started footings and excavation for the foundation of the addition.  Yahoo!  Inside, installation of MEPs, which we have learned means: Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing systems, continues.  Of course, this is terribly important, but somehow just not as exciting as the foundation work!