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With roughly one year left before it’s slated to open its doors, construction has been busily underway at the site of the new Robert Moore School here.
“I think we’re moving along quite well,” said Raymond Roy, manager of plant operations and maintenance for the Rainy River District School Board.
“We’re pleased with the progress.
“We’re still looking at a completion date of mid-August, 2010 and we’re still on schedule for that,” he added.
The footings—the “great big blocks in the ground”—are about 75 percent completed, Roy estimated, while the foundation walls (the short concrete walls about two or three feet high) are roughly 20 percent completed.
As for site services, sewer already has been installed and water is being installed, he noted.
Once the footings and foundations are done, Roy said workers will move inside of that to further put in the sewer and water services, as well as complete the concrete floor.
“As that’s going on, you will see concrete block walls being erected,” he added. “You will see by the early part of September structural steel going up. ”
With students returning to school next Tuesday (Sept. 1), safety precautions also have been taken.
The area has been fenced off from the school, Roy noted.
He said the board also has met with the contractors so they’ll be aware of when students possibly will be walking by the site and so extra precautions will be taken at those times.
