Favorable Weather in Stockton, CA

The new year has brought nice working weather in Stockton. After a short holiday break, the contractors continued digging trenches, setting tanks, and pouring concrete.You'll see in the photo's below that the re-rod in the walls replicates what went into the floor in previous photo's.

Here is a wall footing prior to pouring concrete. I see why the trades argue over who gets to install their building materials first. I believe the rod-busters drew the short straw this time. For those of you who don't know, the  rod-busters are the lucky guys who get to install the tangled web of re-rod prior to pouring concrete. To be sure the rod-busters don't overlook anything, this is inspected not once, but twice.

 

Here is the same footing........post pour. This guy is troweling the concrete and making sure every last re-rod is accounted for. Is it too late after the concrete is poured?

 

This is the raceway trench leading from the load out building to the rail load out office. The office will be located in the vicinity of the rail car in the photo. The trench is constructed similar to those in the building; concrete floor and walls with a polypropylene liner.

Plywood forms are set in place for the back wall of the building. In the distance, a pump truck is being used to pour footings for the side wall.

Six tanks were set prior to the holidays. Three more were set last Friday. These nine tanks will be plumbed in and used immediately. Temporary accommodations are being made and we will be operating out the site long before the building is complete. 

That's not a tire, it's a roll of 4" rubber hose. The guys are using the services of the crane operator while they have him on site setting tanks.

Here the guys are using the crane to install one of the manifolds. Not a bad way to do it. They are installing all the valves and fittings and then setting them in place. With footings being poured around the entire perimeter, they are unable to drive into the building with equipment at this time. Luckily, it worked out that they had a crane on site.