9-16-23
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Summary of This Week's Accomplishments
• Changing of the fencing structure which includes the closing of the through road between church properties giving all parties working on this project added flexibility to function safely. • Placing proper safety markings, signs, and all other precautions to make all people and parties to understand clearly this property is only for authorized workers and personnel to enter. • To start effective immediately with the plan to remove the remainder of all debris from both inside and outside of the building and the entire property. • To bring the equipment and personnel to remove the wall(s) that are an eminent safety hazard. • To open other areas of walls and roofs of the building(s) that need to be exposed to assist the engineer(s) for the church and the insurance company. Which will help them to determine clearly what the true extent of damage there is on each building. • All present agreed to start this process on 09/18/2023 and work in step with both the Church Architect/Engineer and the insurance company engineering. • All this work is to be coordinated with “Sasha Coyle, NPM, BluSky. Goals for the Upcoming Week Starting the week of September 18, we will be conducting the following work: • Beginning all the items agreed to on our September 14th meeting. • Safety meetings every morning is conducted with our team at the site to deal with relevant safety issues. Those meetings are important to all parties that will be entering the fenced area for any purpose. All parties are to be wearing the proper safety apparel and using proper safety measures while working. • All parties must sign in on the property and only authorized personnel will be allowed. • Allowing “ALL” areas of the facility that have been determined to contain asbestos and are safe structurally to work, your abatement contractor will be given unhindered access to those areas. No other personnel allowed in those areas and are to be marked appropriately for the duration of their work. • We will be keeping you and all parties aware of any and all safety issues that may arise during the demolition process. |
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9-22-23
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Summary of This Week's Accomplishments
This week the reconstruction of First United Methodist Church of Wynne, Arkansas. The following has taken place: o On 09/18-23 /2023 - Documentation that has been produced this Period • The scope of work concerning the demolition of the interior of the Martha Murray Building, adjoining kitchen and associated room have been detailed and approved by the owners Architect/Engineer and BluSky in writing. • The scope of work concerning the demolition of the exterior of the Martha Murray Building’s exterior for the East End and the South Wall have been detailed and approved by the owners Architect/Engineer and BluSky in writing. o On 09/18-23/2023 – Work that has been done this time Period. • As was promised and you can see in the attached pictures, we have securely covered the South Side Walkway that contains the “Memorial Bricks” that are in concrete. This section will be protected for the duration of the project. • We have begun and have made a significant headway (as you can see by the pictures) to dismantle the interior of the Martha Murry Buildings interior. • We have exposed the South Walls Red Iron where an inspection can be completed by the third-party Engineering group. • We have equipment on the way to begin the process of cleaning up the West End of the Church and remove the Steeple. Goals for the Upcoming Week o This coming week we will be: • Working on both the Exterior and Interior of the building in many locations. Both in the removal of normal building materials and asbestos contaminated materials. • Securing the remainder of the fence that we constructed this week. Including all proper gates, signage, and safety measures. • We ask that all people please that are not a part of the construction or asbestos abatement team to stay away from the portion of the property that is enclosed with the fence. The fenced in area is considered a “Construction Zone, and a Hazard Zone”. Important Notes and Reminders o We want to make it very clear that many places on the property there are very serious danger hazards. Please make it clear that No one should be on the main building side of the property other than the workers that have permission to be there by BluSky. Our team and has all parties who are to be working there aware of what is being done. Anyone who comes on the property without being with someone who belongs there will be putting themselves and our workers at risk of serious danger. |
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10-09-23
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Summary of This Week's Accomplishments
The week has been very eventful. Major milestones have been completed: • The Steeple has been removed from the property. • The Northwest School Room has been completely opened, most of the debris removed. • The Southeast wall of the Martha Murray Building has been opened where it used to look like a curved wall. • The East wall of the Martha Murray Building has had its face taken off and now no danger of collapse. • Most of the interior of the Martha Murray building has been demoed. • The Kitchen in the Martha Murray building is an example of dangerous. The tornado decided to throw everything inside and move everything together. It was a dangerous puzzle to take apart. To accomplish this work, it took a lot of careful planning to make sure no one was injured in anyway as much of this was very dangerous. Goals for the Upcoming Week We will continue the interior work and exterior work from east to west on the entire parts that we have access. It is moving quickly but as planned. Important Notes and Reminders You will see in the few photos that I could send with this report, a picture of our Team. We have two that are missing which also play a big role. Our team has worked extremely hard and effective every day. I am personally proud of their consistency every day. In addition, the east and south walls that are now open because they needed to have the brick removed will be partly covered to keep weather, animals and people out during the planning phase and start building phase. We do not need those walls to be straight right now but safe. They were not safe but are now. We are moving into the bad weather time of the year. And we need to keep only the people who belong in the building to be able to go in. |
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10-16-23
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Summary of This Week's Accomplishments
We have completed the obvious work but as of Friday this week except for the removal of debris that are in piles west of the Northwest School rooms that we have demolished, and dumpsters being swapped out on both North and South sides of the East end of the property. Goals for the Upcoming Week We are going to focus on the exterior masonry demolition and the small porch(s) removals that Curtis Doss recommended us to remove. The pictures show that the building is wide open and we want to get it closed in with permanent final walls, roof and finishes. If we can get that plan started next week then we will be able to stay focused for the next weeks prior to the rainy season if at all possible. |
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10-23-23
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Summary of This Week's Accomplishments
This week has been completing the cleanup and preparing for the next phase. We have prepared the facilities for the insurance company and any other party that needs to inspect or understand the full nature of the damage to all of the buildings. Much of the damage that could not been seen or really understood was because it was either too dangerous to enter the facilities or it was hidden behind other debris. It is wide open now. Goals for the Upcoming Week We are limited at this point to move much further without specific instructions and authority. We all are meeting early next week to go over where we are and what could be next. |
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10-30-23
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Summary of This Week's Accomplishments
It was a week of working on communication and planning items that need to be completed in order to move to next phase of work. Our team assisted in all the discussions that were necessary to keep the project moving in the correct direction for this time of year. Goals for the Upcoming Week We are ready and anticipating moving forward now that certain items have been addressed and coordinated across all parties. |
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Martha Murray Hall Re-build plans
3-11-24
Building update from Glen Kernodle:
Building update from Glen Kernodle:
4-21-24
Building update from Glen Kernodle:
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4-29-24 (Taken from an email sent by Sasha Coyle) Progress report and schedule update for Phase 2 -April 26,2024 We were able to accomplish a good series of different parts of the demo and cleanup of the Martha Murry Building.
The schedule of the remaining part of the demolition and build back milestones will be submitted over the course of the next couple of weeks.
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