As we’ve reached the drywall stage of the project, it is a great time to review how far we’ve come since we started the demolition and excavation in early august. We have enjoyed a lot of cooperation from the trades and even the autumn weather. This project was among the most carefully managed I’ve been involved with to date, with lots of staging and orchestration gymnastics to run multiple crews, usually 6 days a week and sometimes even 7. With footing pour on August 9th, and drywall hanging underway September 25th, that is only 11 weeks from an empty hole in the ground to a structure complete enough inside and out to cover it with drywall and start the finishing work.

Of that 11 weeks, or 77 days, we’ve had a bunch of rain storms and blizzards, holiday long weekends, waits for material and equipment, and scheduling conflict among various subtrades. The construction has certainly been a whirlwind of activity each day, and required a lot of management time to keep on track, and on budget.