The building work continues

Once a week I am visiting the building site which will become the new school science block, to photograph progress. The changes each week are significant. The site may look a bit of a mess to most of us who are not involved in the building industry, but there is organisation in that chaos.

Last week they had started to expose the tops of the piles and cut them down to the required level, revealing the tops of the reinforcing bars. Now, in several areas of the site, they have put caps of steel caging linking the piles, with further caging between these caps. In one corner of the site (shown here) they have build the shuttering round the steel, ready to pour concrete. Sandwiched between the shuttering and the soil are the white slabs of polystyrene, there to absorb movement in the clay soil and prevent damage to the structure.

However, today's challenge is "In the distance". In this picture, you can see in the distance (relatively speaking) the wooded area which separates the site of the new block from the small lake beyond. The lake is part of the school grounds and certainly adds an attractive feature to the site.

I suspect that progress pictures of the construction work will be a regular feature of my blips.