2003-04 Construction Photos--B3

...starting early in the season. This pod is the comms and admin area...
(...what are we looking at and where? Here is the schedule map at the time.)

Mid-November, the first task was to install the soffit SIP panels. This view looks north. Note that the foundation/columns, main trusses, and windward first level truss were installed in 2002-03.	Another view of the soffit panel installation from the east side of B3.
24 November, B3 steel erection continued apace...along with the windward soffit chamfer panels. And the level 2 floor trusses are stacked up in the foreground.	A day later, looking west at B3 from the second level B2 exit platform. The first truss for the B3 second floor is in place, and Q-decking installation has begun for the first level.
By 27 November, the second level floor trusses were in place.	A day later, looking west at B3 from the second level B2 exit platform. The first truss for the B3 second floor is in place, and Q-decking installation has begun for the first level.
On 6 December 2003, here is one of the structural insulated wall panels on the east end of B3 going up. These consist of 10" of expanded polystyrene sandwiched between OSB (oriented strand board). This and the next 3 photos are by Kris Kuenning from the USAP photo library (link to original).	A few minutes later, sliding the panel into place (link to USAP photo library original).
Meanwhile, Tom Pi (left) and Adam Rein are seen here installing bracing angles between the second level floor trusses on the front of B3 (link to USAP photo library original).	Here's another view of Tom and Adam at work (link to USAP photo library original).
A few days later, here goes the last member of B3 steel.	A view of the front side of B3 on 12 December.
Next, the second floor exterior wall panels on the west side.	And that side is done...15 December
A couple weeks later, here's another flag on the last roof SIP panel.	The front of the station, structurally complete and waiting for the "pretty stuff" (the blue facade).
(Photos #1-#4 by Ralph DeStefano (the 2003-04 Title 2 Inspector); #5-#8 by Kris Kuenning (NSF), from the USAP photo library; #9, #13, and #14 from Jerry Marty; #10 and #11 from the common drive; and #12 from Glen Kinoshita.) Next, a look inside B3, and outside at the cargo operations...