Wednesday, April 13, 2011

A Night In The Life Of A Construction Site



 


5. A worker on break observes the men installing the final casings into the new retaining  wall.  Once the wall is sealed up with concrete the job will be near completion.


4. The dump truck drops of its first load of asphalt, which will be used to begin work on the creating the next lane for the new intersection.
 
3. The Excavator's operator jumps down from the cockpit to consult the foreman about how they should properly go about digging so near to the steel pylons.

 
2.The welder fine tunes the casing to match the ones already in place in the partially built retaining wall.


















1. Workers install the concrete lagging on March 26.. They must install all of the concrete lagging prior to filling the dug out pits with asphalt.