Our first visit to site

We thought it was time that we went to site to have a look ourselves at the progress being made.

We sat in on a site meeting first. Phew it was hot inside the site cabin

There was a lot of talk about things like putting the drains in (which is being done now), getting all the information ready for the steel frame that is going to hold the building up, making sure that the budget (the money for the project) is being kept to and also is it on programme. The programme is the timetable for all the building work and apparently we are on programme at the moment so it should be ready to move in for September 2007. All this nice dry and sunny weather is a big help because the site is not muddy. When it rains everything gets wet and muddy and its not nice and the diggers can get stuck.

On the left of the picture above you can see Tom who is our Project Manager, he makes sure it all gets built on time and on budget. No pressure on him then!

We had a new friend come to site with us today: his name is Daniel he is 14 and he has come to to do his work experience in our office, he would like to be an architect or engineer. so he came to the meeting and then came with us onto the site to have a look at what is going on.

In the background you can see the pipes sticking out of the ground, these are the connctions for all the toilets and sinks in the nursery and reception classrooms. The white stuff is hardcore (stones) that has been put down ready to start the concrete for the foundations (they're the big lumps at the bottom that the rest of the building sits on).