Shillman House Chronicles: Entry #12

• Wood framing continues for Shillman's northeast wing! The lull is unloading floor trusses for the second floor.
• The southeast wing foundations and block stair walls are complete!  The excavator is preparing for underground plumbing. 

Shillman House Chronicles: Entry #11

• Shillman House's elevator shaft has been completed and now the masonry staging is set up to build the growing stairwell in the northeast wing.  The first floor concrete has been placed in the northeast wing. The walls of the first floor are going up quickly!
• The pre-fab first floor walls are going up one section at a time.  You can see a team placing a section of an exterior wall in place.

Shillman House Chronicles: Entry #10

• The masonry staging is set up around the growing elevator shaft.  Its fire-rated block walls will go from the basement to the roof level.
• Shillman's structural skeleton is in!  Steel supports over the basement area form the first floor deck.  Steel columns and beams connect to the concrete footings and walls to secure the structure that will support the floors above.  The sleeves, or holes, installed in the foundation wall to the left will have 5" pipes coming through them to connect the geothermal wells to the heating and cooling system for the building.

Shillman House Chronicles: Entry #9

• More framework!  The connector between the northeast and the northwest sections of the building is just starting to take shape!
• This section of the northwest foundation has been waterproofed with more pink insulation and a black mirror drain.  The excavator is now back-filling the area.

Shillman House Chronicles: Entry #8

Workers have begun the installation of waterproofing and rigid insulation to the exterior of the foundation walls of the northeast wing. Shillman House is looking pretty in pink!!

Meanwhile, in the northwest wing, formwork and rebars (reinforced bars) for the basement concrete walls are being installed. There has been so much progress this week!

Shillman House Chronicles: Entry #7

Workers are busy removing the wall forms from the northeast foundation walls. The reinforced concrete supporting walls are now up.

Blasting of ledge is continuing in the future northwest parking lot. All blasting is being supervised by the Framingham Fire Department. The broken up ledge material is being hauled off of the site.

Shillman House Chronicles: Entry #6

There's great progress in the northeast wing of the future Shillman House! The basement foundation wall forms were being installed, along with steel reinforcing bars.

The supporting walls of the building, made of reinforced concrete, will be up soon.