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Site plan!

With the completion of tests pits and the health department signing off on the results we were able to move forward with the surveyor. We now have a site plan to submit to the town! Here is a close up of the map area. Our excavator will hopefully get it's repair done this week and we can then get it shipped to us next week. This is assuming that there aren't any problems when they pull its track. We had a delay in the repair because our friend didn't have time to do the job. He passed it off to someone he knows. So now we have a friend of a friend doing the repair. We were holding off hiring a repair company because of the cost of labor. If we can just hire someone we know it is much cheaper. Typical large equipment repair service charge $100 /hr and they charge you for drive time too. That adds up pretty fast when the machines are big and heavy like our excavator. As we wait for the structural engineers to finish we continue to keep ourselves busy. I finishe...

Engineers Revealed

There is a sudden lurch forward in our project that was so stuck. I have spent quite a bit of time writing emails and on the phone. For months we have been stuck waiting for spring and working out our engineer problems. It feels good to have finally gotten things moving again even if we are stuck jumping over wacky hurdles just because we are building something new to our state! Yes there is such a thing as competitive Bunny Show Jumping! Things officially started with both structural engineering firms and it is now time to name names. The dome engineer responsible for the superstructure and the instructor of the group is Chris Zweifel of ZZ Consulting in Idaho. He will not only engineer the dome but also teach the CT licensed firm how it all works so they can take official responsibility. On the Connecticut end, we have hired Elizabeth Acly of Cirrus Structural . Elizabeth and her staff engineer Sergio Guindon, will be handling the basement/garage as well as the floor that...