Jon over at the blog It's the final word commented on last week's posting about construction that I "must be the only man in Saigon who actually enjoys having a large scale construction project behind his house..." Yes, it's true -- I enjoy having a construction project behind my house because I have a ringside seat for the day-to-day workings of a construction site. Architects don't get enough exposure to construction on the job -- I am learning some new things, particularly about construction methods common in Vietnam but not so common in America. The current construction activities are still fairly tame -- I might change my mind when the construction workers are staring in my window and blowing dust my way in a year or so.
This week the crane operator and rigging crew set up the third frame for testing the last concrete drilled pier.
This next week they will haul all of the frame materials and concrete blocks away, and the site will be quiet for a couple of months while the structural engineer evaluates the test results and the foundation contractor calculates the length of drilled piers required to complete the building and order materials accordingly.
