BEHIND THE SCENES: CONSTRUCTION UPDATE VIDEO
The church comes out of the ground…
Building a home is no small feat. Ask anyone who has been involved in doing so. Yet, building a home worthy of the Immaculata is a task of exponential proportions.
Consider that to build the Immaculata will require almost 11,000 cubic yards of concrete.
It will require 900 tons of structural steel.
It will require over 177 tons of rebar alone.
That is over 100 miles worth of standard rebar.
With that you could go around Vatican City over 52 times, cross Lake Michigan and back, or span the tallest building in the world more than 194 times.
And it has one purpose – to be the inner strength of the foundation and walls being built for the love of Our Lady.
This monument is of national importance and is built to last beyond the 26th and 27th centuries.
Transcript of the Video
The building itself will require about 3,600 cubic yards of concrete. The exterior package will be an additional 7,000 cubic yards. To kind of put that in perspective, your typical 1,600 square foot basement slab requires only 20 yards. The Immaculata Church Project has enough concrete to pour that slab 500-600 times.
My name is Jeremy Garrett: I work for Kolde Construction. I am a Project Manager here on the Immaculata Church job site. Kolde Construction is one of the premier concrete subcontractors in northeast Kansas. Kolde Construction was hired for this project to complete the concrete work. Right now we are working on the basement foundation, walls and footings. We will be moving into the slab-on-grade in the basement, and then as the job progresses, we will be moving up and pouring the slab-on-deck as the church comes out of the ground.
“We have made a lot of progress in the month of November. ”
Almost 1,300 cubic yards of concrete have been placed; the electricians and plumbers have started their underground work that will go under the basement slab. Larson Excavating is also on site. They are starting the utility work – a lot of this stuff you'll never see, it'll be covered up. They are working on the water lines, the storm sewer, and the sanitary sewer.
So on the Immaculata Church Project, we have 177 tons of rebar. To quantify that in your head, if it was all half-inch #4 rebar, we would have enough to stretch about 100 miles. We have also had 128,000 square feet of wire mesh for the floor slabs delivered to the site.
In the next month you will start to see the structural steel package show up. There should be about 900 tons of structural steel in this building.
In the coming month of December, the basement foundations and walls should be complete and the first half of the basement floor will be placed.
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