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By December, 2000, the steel framing began to arrive at the building site, and the framework started being erected. This photo shows both floor joists and wall framing in the area above the Gym.
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As more framing was erected, the outline of the building began to take shape. In this photo, the area of the Library is seen to the left, and the uprights to the center and right are in the area of the stage and BOCES wing.
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The large open area in the foreground of the picture is where the stairway down from the main corridor to the Gym will go. The floor joists in the background will be for the Library.
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The deck of the floor is now installed on the joists seen in the last picture (with the results of another snowstorm...) and the wind and weather shield of giant plastic tarps can be seen enclosing the Library.
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As the new year began, the snow began to fly, and the wooden framework of the classroom wings began to take shape. While most of the framework of the building is steel, these massive wooden trusses support the roofs of the classroom wings and the main part of the building along the circular corridor. In the finished building, they are exposed to view, and are one of the distinctive features of the school.
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Another view of one of the classroom wings, this time end-on, looking through what will become the circular corridor, whose roof structure is beginning to take shape as well. This part of the construction process marked probably the time of greatest visual change in the building from day to day, as framing was erected, and the building took on 3 dimensions.
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What 2 months ago was open space with bare concrete walls around it has now become a room, or at least the greater part of one. Here, the Gym has acquired a roof, and the stage is taking on an identity distinct from the area around it. Once the roof was on right up until quite late in the building process, the Gym served as an indoor staging area for supplies. The center section of the exterior wall was not built up until much later than the rest to allow trucks to drive right inside.
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While all around them, steelworkers erected the giant sized Tinker-Toy set that is the framework of any large building, another kind of puzzle was being pieced together by other contractors. Here, the building's boiler is being fastened together, though still not early enough to take off the bitter chill of winter (Not that the building could hold any heat at this point! It would not be fully enclosed until springtime.)
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These pieces of the ductwork for the ventilation and heating system are among the many that will be installed during this time. Once that system is in, interior framers, plumbers, electricians, and later still sheetrockers, tile contractors, and many others will do their parts to create the finished structure.
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A view from the top of the Huge Pile of Dirt in January of 2001 shows the basic shape of the building almost complete--the curve of the circular corridor, the classroom wings with their wooden trusses and peaked roofs in the distance, and the general shape of the Library and Gym in the foregound.
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The last remaining part of the roof framing to be put in place were the wooden trusses over the front rooms along the circular corridor--the kitchen, cafeteria, offices, nurse's suite, art room, and computer room. These areas will all go to the left of the flat roof section, over what was bare slab in this photo. (The big blue tarp is about where the main entrance foyer will be.)
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