As I mentioned in my previous post, I had heard someone say
that they thought that the contractors would be somehow raising the building so
that they could rebuild the foundation to current earthquake code and sure up
the building. The last couple of weeks they have been working around the base
of the building drilling deep holes and building concrete posts. I observed
that they were doing the same on the inside of the building and now can see
that they have built a steel I-beam support system all around the base of the
building so that the building will be resting on this framework. I am guessing
that once in place they will start to remove the old foundation and essentially
suspending the building in air while they build a new substructure underneath
it. I also heard it said that they would be going down several stories; I will
be interested to see if that is the case because of the high water table. See
pictures below - the steel I-beam supports are near the bottom of the building
sticking about 4 feet out, sorry the pictures are not so clear, the angle of
the sun and glare off my window hinder the view but you should be able to see
them and get an idea of what it looks like. Also you can see that it looks like
we will be having a "White Christmas" lows in the teens and chance of
more snow on the weekend.
I wish you all a very merry Christmas!
