My class had a special opertunity to go to one of the Beedie Group’s construction sites. We got to see one of the buildings that was almost complete.

We learned that they had to make the floor of the building completly flat. If there was a spot on the floor that was off, the difference would only be the thickness of half a piece of paper! I also learned that they have to use a speicial sand procedure to wiegh and pack down the ground. They had to create the exact wieght of the building that they were going to build using the sand so that in the future the ground can hold up the building.

     After we were finished going around the construction site we went to one of the Beedie Group’s office building’s and got free pizza! Overall I had a good time and learned more about construction.

http://www.beediegroup.ca/ ( Here is a link for  the Beedie Group’s website.)

( My class got to stand in the shovel of something like this.)