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October 9, 2024
Planned Power Outage Alert!
Duke Energy will cut power to the Raleigh Municipal Building (RMB) and the attached parking deck from 6 p.m. Oct. 11 through Oct. 13. This work will impact RMB and the parking deck, which will remain without power until Oct. 13. There will not be backup power to either RMB or the parking deck during the power outage.
Duke Energy requires this power outage while they complete some vital work associated with the new City Hall.
October 15, 2024
All went well during last weekend’s work, and power was restored to the Raleigh Municipal building and parking deck on Sunday. This week, crews continue their work on forming the basement walls. Sections that are completed are now being waterproofed and then backfilled. There is also a team working on the foundation for the new electrical vault.
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October 29, 2024
The end of the month is here, so let’s look back at what our construction contractor has completed this month. Here is a list of the work that crews completed in the last 30 days.
- Finished forming and pouring the exterior basement walls;
- The mechanical, electrical, and plumbing accesses at the basement level are done;
- Waterproofing around basement walls;
- Backfilling around the basement walls;
- Installed the foundation drain around the perimeter of the basement;
- Poured the mat foundation for the electrical vault;
- Formed the concrete walls for the electrical vault; and,
- Relocated an electrical transformer.
What can we expect to see in November?
In the next 30 days, the contractor will have crews working on the following;
- Pouring the interior basement walls;
- Completing the electrical vault walls;
- Installing the fill at the basement interior;
- Doing the rough-ins for the basement’s mechanical, electrical, and plumbing; and,
- At the end of November, the deep foundation work for level one will start.
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Can we get a group member’s shot of this work? I really appreciate G-Pig’s updates from the city, but their photos are not always the most helpful. Thank you.
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City of Raleigh be like:
“We’ve started pouring the concrete foundation, here’s the progress so far!”
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You ungrateful bastards… I work for hours to copy and paste this every few weeks, and this is the thanks I get?! 
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Heyo - Ground level!!
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November 12, 2024
A little over seven months have passed since we installed our work site camera. The camera will help us document the project and will enable us to create a time-lapse video once the project is complete. Check out how different the job site looks now compared to the first picture we took in April.
This is the first picture we took with our work site camera on April 24, 2024. The construction crew had just finished tearing down the old police headquarters.
This next image was taken on November 12, 2024, at 1:30 p.m. This image is a testament to all the progress the construction crews have made in the past seven months, including excavation, drilling over 100 deep foundation pears, pouring a five-foot-deep mat foundation, forming and pouring the concrete walls, and many other steps to get us to where we are today.
Wow, what a difference!
This project has so many moving parts, and the progress is fun to watch. I wonder what the site will look like in seven months.
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Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but that doesn’t seem like a lot of progress for 7 months. If the team working on The Weld was on this project, I’d imagine that they’d atleast have the first 4-5 floors built out by now. Kane and his boys know how to get a project done, quickly. Yet another example of inefficient government i guess…
Correct ME if I’M wrong, but I’m pretty sure The Weld didn’t dig this deep underground - which is probably one of the most time consuming and difficult aspects of construction. That said, I’m sure we’ll see this start to explode in progress now that they’re getting the most consuming part of the project completed.
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Office towers also usually have more complex, rugged construction than apartment buildings. We just haven’t seen one get built since the Pendo building!
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It’s a lot of progress. Deep foundations are a lot of work that just get buried underground. It really drags things out. It’s like paving a road, it seems like nothing happens for a long time and then all of a sudden the asphalt gets laid down in one night and it’s done.
Once they get the first elevated slab poured it will pick up quickly.
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Is that good enough for you now, Jake?
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@OakCityDrone be like:
“Here’s an update from above!”
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November 20, 2024
The week before last, members of our team had the opportunity to visit Gate Precast Concrete in Nashville, Tennessee. Gate Precast Concrete is the company making the precast concrete panels that will be the exterior shell for the new City Hall. What does precast mean? Precast is a concrete product that is created offsite then delivered to its project destination for final use
These panels are enormous, and each takes 24 hours to fabricate. They are very labor intensive. The only part of the process that is automated is the concrete mix. Here is a short video that shows part of the process.
Check out the full story about this exciting trip!
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