We started the week out with a comprehensive schedule for construction. We mapped out the next eight weeks of our lives. Hopefully the schedule is realistic and we can FINISH construction by the end of April.
Monday was our Ground Breaking Ceremony. It was a really nice day, and we had an audience of parents and children at the playground. The city of Clemson provided a Bobcat and man to operate it. The Bobcat started the ground breaking by clearing dirt away for the first tier of the amphitheater style seating. It also removed a tree stump, and took up the picnic table. We followed up on the Bobcat’s work with shovels and rakes.
This week was all about finalizing and meeting with different people to confirm aspects of the project. We had meetings and phone calls about donations, materials, structure, and material testing. We had a two hour meeting with a German faculty candidate who was very structurally minded. It was interesting to talk to him about the full circle of our development. It started with Frei Otto, an umbrella structure, a circus tent structure, wood latticework and then our final more simple post and cabling system to hang the canopy.
I also went with Jeff and Sara to meet the after-school faculty member at Clemson Elementary. We ran through the plan for Wednesday and watched a first aid video. We checked out the room we’ll be using at the elementary school.
Friday and Saturday we did a lot of shopping. We are working towards a full scale model of the funnel. For the mock-up model, we bought rivets, washers, and 200 sheets of poster board. We learned about a really inexpensive supplier in Greenville. That supplier will hopefully be the source for actually canopy. Saturday we bought tools for construction and stored them in our new pod on site. We also cleaned studio up in preparation for building the full scale mock up. We are currently waiting: for the laser cutter, materials to arrive, and confirmation from engineers. Hopefully next week everything will come together and we can pump some work out.
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