Growing Awareness

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Beedie Group Reflection

Posted on 2 June, 2017 by milloyd

On April 26th, my class went on a educational field trip to the Beedie Group development site. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it but from what my peers have told me it was fantastic. They got to see one of the buildings that being completed. I think it would have been a very interesting experience though. Just to know that you made something out of something. Like if you made a door really you just made a wooden rectangle. I just thought that was interesting.

Here’s a link to my friends blogs that have more info on the visit: Holly, Kaden, and Genesis.

Beedie Group Field Trip Reflection

Posted on 4 May, 2017 by milloyd

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.)