Capitol Hill Day School Building Addition

Through the upcoming renovation of the Dent building, the School will realize a long term strategic goal of supporting and strengthening our programs by improving and updating our facility.


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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Modular Units Arrive -- August 16, 2011



The modular units arrive in groups of two or three on schedule at the School's temporary site location, 1000 5th Street, SE. We require sixteen (16) modular sections; each is customized to meet the School's educational requirements. As a result, they have to arrive on site in order. The lot is too small to store sections on site so our "staging ground" is in Richmond, VA. One truck cannot get ahead or fall behind another. When the sequence is disrupted, which does happen, the entire delivery and set-up cycle may be delayed impacting the work of all the firms we have hired to complete work to get the units prepared for the opening of school.

Our installation subcontractor, Master Movers, uses the yellow Bobcat, shown below, to rapidly align the modular units as they arrive with those that have already been installed. This versatile piece of equipment quickly and almost effortlessly swings the huge modular sections on to the site and into place. Precision work expertly done. At the same time the exterior crew sets the modular units on ABS pads and seals the roof an interior crew is bolting the joists and completing the finish work.

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