MEETING OF THE MINDS
Friday the 10th of April we had our first big on site meeting. The construction foremen from Hayes Construction were there (Tom and Jason), along with Ray our architect and Evan the excavator. This is a rather unique project so getting everyone on the same sheet of music from the beginning is paramount. Our vision statement (stolen from Patagonia) is as follows:
Build the best product
Cause no unnecessary harm
Inspire and implement solutions for future environmental sustainability
This was our opportunity to express to them our vision and to see how the excavation was coming along. We started to map out all the areas needed on a construction site, such as where does everyone park, where do the port-o-potties go, etc. These are actually important decisions as we want to limit the amount of native landscape affected by this project. As we suspected, Evan confirmed we are building on top of a giant rock and thus he will have to do quite a bit of hammering with his excavator. We also 'stringed' out all the building perimeters (house, casita and garage) so that we could get a better picture of exactly how they will sit in the real world. Good thing we did as we rotated the garage 10' to better align with the driveway.
'Stringing' out the garage perimeter
The Casita will be at the base of the Palo Verde tree
The first big pile of dirt
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