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The entire building will be slab on grade with the exception of the wine storage room which has a full basement that will house the geothermal and electrical equipment.   The wine storage room will hold up to 900 cases of wine and the floor system had to be designed to carry all the weight.  Our structural engineer, Ernie George, consulted old design manuals for ships carrying rum (he also calculated the weight of the wine) and figured on a floor load of 200 lbs per square foot.

Two 7″ x 14″ beams support 12″ I-joists on 16″ centers.   To the right Tim Van Wormer and Breck Tully, of T and J Construction, are finishing the floor and laying out the basement stairs.

In the background Ca-Gin Concrete gets ready to pour the footing for the bearing wall in the beer cooler.

The walls and roof of the wine storage room, beer cooler, stair tower, and service entrance will be built entirely of Climate-Block panels and structural beams made of engineered lumber.  Below Ryan Gallant, Ed Joanis, and Traves Ogilvie meet with architect Megan Moynihan and engineer Ernie George to go over the details.

This morning we are working from the top to the bottom and pretty much everywhere in between.  In the big picture below the first of the upper roof panels is being set into place while the concrete truck pours the basement slab.

Meanwhile, on the lower part of the roof we are running the electrical wires and wires for the security and alarm systems.  We don’t want any exposed wiremold or electrical conduit so all ceiling mounted fixtures are being wired from the outside. This requires careful planning and skilled hands. To the left Sam Joslin, of Century Electric, confers with Dave Vinick, of Home Electronics.  To the right Len Capizanno locates the overhead fixtures.

And, while all this is going on up above, Ca-Gin Concrete pours the basement slab.  The blue foam blocks mark the location of the footings for the steel columns that will support the floor and roof structure.  Once the floor hardens the foam will be removed. And after the columns are set the diamond shapes will be patched and the concrete will secure the base of the columns.

Forming  and pouring the foundation had  a couple of unusual challenges.

• The main part of the building will be timberframe and with an Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) curtain wall that is 8″ thick.  Both the wood structural posts and the EPS panels require full bearing, so the foundation had to be 16″ thick. And, as the timberframe has  been ordered and will arrive on site already cut, the foundation had to be perfect.
• The wine storage room and beer cooler are offset at a 66 degree angle and the foundation for the wine storage room requires oversized forms.

Ca-Gin Concrete is doing the foundation work and we meet with them repeatedly to go over the plans and check the elevations.   We were pouring more than 170 cubic yards of concrete.  To the right owner Jon Maldon, Dan Cassidy and Bobby Gingerella of Ca-Gin Concrete, and architect Megan Moynihan at the end of the day.

First the footings.

And then the walls