Those who find lifting heavy an expensive objects exciting will be enthralled by the pictures below. They show the arrival of the air conditioning unit for the new lobby, Admitting, Café and ED addition. This 16 ton unit was put in place in less than 15 minutes by a crew whom obviously knew what they [...]

We here at BMH are just lovin’ the progress being made by HP Cummings for the first phase of out Emergency Department project! These two photos show the new entrances to the hospital and Emergency Department are beginning to take shape. The foreground doorway is for the hospital and the further entrance at the right [...]

Let’s look inside the new addition, set to be our lobby, café, ED waiting and reception area. As of today, you can see through walls! Below you are looking from the new café area toward the reception and waiting area for the ED: Here we are looking back at the café serving area from the [...]

Anyone up for a little construction trivia? There are basically three types of construction. Which one is required for hospitals? Combustible (i.e. wood framing) Non combustible (i.e. steel framing) Non combustible protected (i.e. steel framing with a fire resistant insulation sprayed on, or poured concrete) The correct answer is (3): non combustible protected. This allows [...]

When last you read this page, you were told that things would move rapidly once the steel arrived. I will let readers evaluate the sincerity of those remarks by looking at the pictures below and comparing them to the Feb. 20 post. Before you peek at the pictures, however, let me say this. Where before [...]

Readers may recall that we had a slight delay in the arrival of steel framing for our addition associated with the project.  HP Cummings uncovered a section of roof in the existing construction that did not conform to current hospital construction codes.  The result is that this section of roof had to be demolished and [...]

We needed to make a last minute change to one section of the roof. This redesign required a re-submittal of the entire structural steel package, which in turn put us out of line in the queue to have our structural steel fabricated. Hence we are at a near standstill for another two weeks until the [...]

In spite of a spate of real Vermont winter weather during this early January (go figure!), progress on the new addition continues on schedule. As a reminder, this expanded area will house the main hospital lobby & cafe as well as the walk in entrance and waiting room for the Emergency Department, which will also [...]

Even though we actually had a touch of Vermont-style winter this week, construction continues according to schedule! The first picture of the continuing interior demolition should come as no surprise, unless you’re still wondering where the gift shop & café went. On the outside, forms are being removed from concrete footings that have been poured. [...]

After showing you how the project was progressing from the inside last week, let’s go back outside for an update on the site work for the addition. Forms for the outside “footings,” as they are called, are being poured. Covered in black plastic to allow for proper curing, a section of freshly poured concrete footings [...]