Happy Labor Day to all the hardworking men and women who have put in long hours on the CTA substation project!
Here is a retrospective look at what you've accomplished so far.
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| October 2012: The project begins and the trees are cleared. |
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| November 2012: Work grinds to a halt while some bureaucratic kinks get worked out. |
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| January 2013: Work resumes with a roar as huge steel panels are driven deep into the ground. |
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| February 2013: Things are quiet for a while as the steel panels are given time to settle. Measurements are meticulously taken between one worker stationed on the back porch of my building and another on the L tracks, making sure that the steel panels are not shifting. |
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| March 2013: Holes are cut in the steel preparing it for the tiebacks and walers. |
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| April 2013: The magnificent Hütte inserts tiebacks in the midst of a rainstorm. |
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| Also in April 2013: Your humble blogger is rewarded for her literary and photographic labors with a lovely pink hardhat. |
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| May 2013: After all the dirt was excavated to street level, the wall came tumbling down. |
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| June 2013: Shear studs are added to the steel panels, as well as a second, lower, row of walers and tiebacks. |
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| July 2013: The steel panels are sandblasted and treated with waterproofing. |
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| August 2013: After an intricate web of rebar is constructed, concrete is poured to a depth of four feet for the foundation of the building. |
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