The View From Here: Grange & Studios Update
by Janet Durgin, Head of School
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Some of you are no doubt wondering if the rain has delayed our project. Our contractors budgeted time for rain days; however, with this year's excessively rainy season (50+ inches and counting, compared to an average of 30 inches), we have fallen a little behind schedule. Fortunately, not all of the rain days have impacted the critical path to completion. We are behind by about six work days, though we hope to make those up sometime before the end of the summer. We've already made up three lost days by increasing crew sizes and adding a few hours of overtime. At this point, we are still on track to open the building in October.
Currently, they are creating the deck and putting on the roof for the building. If we have a little more dry weather, they'll start pouring concrete for the first and second floors. Once the concrete is poured, they'll start framing interior walls and putting in window frames, and the building will really visibly take shape.
We are beginning to feel the ways in which this new structure changes our experience of this space. Its angles point us to the horizon and frame the sunset. It reaches into the central plaza and we are already seeing how it will invite us in. And while the crews are busy building the structure, we are busy dreaming, planning, and preparing for the programming that will come alive inside the building.
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