schedule

Apr 29	Met with Lars Stanley, discuss project, initial site visit
May 9	Informal Site Exploration, Spent Night in Ft Benchley
May 14	7:30pm - Benchley 3 Meet, discuss tentative surveying date
May 16	Contact RSC regarding survey equip
May 19	Jon and Perch clear brushies for clear site lines
May 20	Survey site, Clear Vegetation
May 20-26	Build site model
May 25	Initial design ideas put down on paper
May 27	Site Work: Consolidated Brush, Catalogued existing materials
May 28	Summer Classes Begin
May 29-June 1	Continued research, design development
June 1-June 3	Stay out at site, intense design development, masonry experimentation
June 10	Begin addition model for site model, further design development
June 12	Continue model work, begin discussing connections and other detail work
June 13	Homemade bricks done curing, test to see if they're any good. Begin organizing presentation drawings and continue design of connections, structural elements, wall sections, roof framing
June 14	Begin contacting potential straw suppliers
June 18	Continue development and produce presentation drawings of wall sections.
June 19	Research connection hardware during day, continue development and produce presentation drawings of plans (roofing, floor, performance) and connections/
June 20	Final Topo Drawing
June 21	Tying up loose ends
June 22	Meet with Lars Stanley, present/discuss design
June 26	Meeting to discuss materials/tools needed for footing pouring
June 28	Lars Stanley to visit Benchley site, initial layout of batter boards. Un-official first day of construction.
June 29-July 6	Excavation of footings, preparation of steel reinfocement
July 7	Primary phase of pouring of footings (Pads)
July 17	Fire-pit excavation
July 22	Final Preparations for Second stage of pouring
July 23	Primary CAD of floor framing details
July 28	Second phase of pouring of footings (Piers/Firepit Slab)
July 30-Aug 3	Research pros/cons of potential beam materials (steel, treated 2x8s, engineered lumber); Calculate design loads for steel members; Update CAD floor details; Finalize straw bale supplier
Aug 4-26	Floor Floor Floor when not Rain Rain Raining
Aug 27	TAMU Fall Semester Begins
Aug 28 - Sept 6	Will the torrential rains ever stop?
Sept 10-Oct 20	Finalizing floor framing
Nov-Dec	Structural portion of walls, general site maintenance
Dec-Jan	Winter break, continuation of wall structure, roof framing.
Feb	Roof framing really starts rolling, in addition to site development and beginnings of window framing.
March-April	Finish roof framing, Pick up straw bales, construct window framing
Apr 26-28	Finalize prep work for bales, incl. window boxes/frames, structural bracing, bale prep
May 4	THE BIG DAY. Laying the straw bales. See process page for details.
May 6-9	Finishing walls, plastering, whatever else
May 10	Jon, Rob and Brad graduate from Texas A&M
May 10-	Apply moisture barrier, wire mesh, stucco. Finish windows, frame patio walls.