October 1st 2021 - One Year Later - Building the Immaculata - Update Video

bit.ly/3FcoPkY - Welcome back to the Immaculata Church project here in St. Mary’s Kansas. Today we're going to give you some updates, we do have three special guests our project superintendents that are going to take us through some of the details with the stone and brick, a lot of our interior concrete work, and some special views that you can't see from the road in the back on the roof.
I'm here today with Mike Katt, one of our project superintendents. You might remember Mike from a video we did last October, a year ago. In the video Mike and two other superintendents were laying out the footings with their total station. Since then you can see behind us here a lot has changed in a year and we're going to ask Mike what's gone on here over the last month.
[Mike] Well we have gotten a little bit higher on our cast stone here, on the north transept. In that time, we have had all the parts and pieces to go ahead and top it out, designed, made, and brought out on site, which is behind us.
[Bill] I see the hydro mobile is up to where the base for that cast statue will be, is that being installed soon?
[Mike] Yes actually, tomorrow our crane will mobilize from where it's currently sitting to up here on this hill and will assist the masons in setting that as well as the rest of their stone picks.
[Bill] All right, that'll wrap up this north transept? [Mike] Yes.
[Bill] All right let's move to the west and kind of let's talk about what these guys are doing over here.
[Mike] So they have built up their scaffold all the way to the top to get our cornice installed and they have built up scaffolding on the inside of the baptistery to get the upper cupola masonry installed.
[Bill] Okay so that lantern will be all brick and cast stone up there?
[Mike] Yes sir. As you can see on the side chapel we started with our water table cast stone and started bringing it around and they are gonna start bringing the rest of that masonry up and tying it all back together.
[Bill] So that is the electrical transformer Mike?
[Mike] Yes, so Heineken came in and set that last week and they are actually down closer to campus making it up and we should be bringing permanent power into the building here fairly soon. Since last video we've filled our stair pans all the way up to the choir loft.
[Bill] All right let's go up and take a look. All right we're going to go through the south tower here, go out and check out the choir loft and cry room.
[Mike] We have all of our temporary handrails here just to keep it safe for construction purposes.
[Bill] Okay so the workers can use these now instead of the stair tower we had set up inside? [Mike] Absolutely. And here at the cry room we do have our risers poured over our geofoam ready so all the pews will be set up here and have full view.
[Bill] All right let's walk on through to the south tower. And now let's go on up to the choir loft and take a look up there.
[Mike] A few air handling unit pads poured up here as well.
[Bill] It's a nice view from here. [Mike] You can see a long, long ways. So up here we have concrete over our geofoam steps similar to what we saw down in the cry room only at full length for the choir. [Bill] And this is all stepped back so that we have line of sight to the altar. [Mike] Yes.
[Bill] All right, well let's head down the north stair tower and let's go check out the south side of the building. [Mike] Okay. So over here on the south facade we do have waterproofing caught up to the side chapels, and as you can see the masonry on the south transept has also about caught up to the north one.
[Bill] Now we're here with Kris Koenig our lead superintendent for the project and we're going to talk about strategy going forward. So Kris, what is our strategy here going into these fall and winter months?
[Kris] So you touched on it a little bit in the last video, right now our biggest thing is kind of getting our exterior envelope wrapped up. The idea that we would have 100 percent finished this Fall is probably not true but...
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I'm excited for my future children to receive baptism and attend mass here.

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Amazing!