Wednesday 27 July

On Wednesday 27 July I had a site meeting with Marc Cohen from Co-Wyn (the builders), Alex Coutts and Peter Coad (architects). We walked around the site and looked at the siting of the buildings and the different rooms. They will get an arborist out next Wednesday to give us his professional opinion on what we can do about the fig tree. The landscape architect will be there as well.

Then we met with the man who will supply all the glass for the project and make up the windows. Two different types of glass have been specified. One type with special coating is for all north and south facing windows and the other for east and west windows. Both are laminated and much thicker than our present glass. The laminated glass keeps heat both out in summer and in in winter. It makes a 7 degree Celsius difference. We then closely examined at the plans taking note of all the windows, the shadow angles and the landscaping. We were satisfied with the specified glass. We cut out the external vertical shields Alex had specified for the clerestory windows. We will see what happens when the building is complete whether we need them or something similar. After this we then examined the windows in the bedrooms and made some modifications there. Then we examined all the doors on offices and interview rooms and made a change in one of them. Such was our first site meeting. For all the close attention it was not as tiring as some other meetings I have attended with some of the engineers. Next week we will have minutes taken!

After lunch on Wednesday some of the brethren went for a walk around the site looking at the various rooms. Those who missed out went for a walk between the afternoon community meeting and Evening Prayer.

Greg and a tree that has to go

The site begins to take shape

There was no work on the site on Thursday or Friday. However a large machine arrived on Friday which looks like it will be used to knock down the cottage and anything else in its way.