You can see from our webcam that the block work is now up to the first floor level. What you can’t see is that the first floor floor-slabs are now being poured. This is basically a large amount of concrete being poured over a thick wire mesh that is constructed on some steal decking. After…
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Mareel and the Flea immortalised in a dance
Posted by Gwilym Gibbons on November 29th, 2009 No CommentsExtract taken from South Mainland Notebook 23.10.09 Shetland Times 23/10/09
Compliment has Flea reeling
As you would expect, Lerwick Old Time Dance Club tends to stick to old time dances, but a recent session was rather different.
By special dispensation Alistair Gair, who has taught dancing for over four decades and has in the past been…
Mareel on time, on budget and on track
Posted by Gwilym Gibbons on November 24th, 2009 No CommentsThe building is now rapidly taking shape. I walked into one of the downstairs rooms today, through a doorway and looked out to sea through a window. Well almost, the block work is only about 1m high. I did however for the first time really get a sense of one of the many spaces in…
Read the rest...Mareel is officially off the ground
Posted by Gwilym Gibbons on November 18th, 2009 1 CommentIt has been a good day on the Mareel site. After 6 months of work under the ground it’s now all go above. A significant milestone in any construction project is the point that the first blocks are laid. That milestone was reached today.
The underground work has gone well and apart from some minor…
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Posted by Gwilym Gibbons on September 27th, 2009 No CommentsIts been a while since the last update on the construction of Mareel so here is the latest news.
Piling works were completed on Friday 21st August.
Car park – rock excavation has been completed and work started on grading the site to underside of base course (the level before the final surface – tarmac…
