We started installing Collection Point this week! It was commissioned for the new City of Minneapolis Public Works East Side Maintenance Facility. Here’s a look at the day:
At 8am, it begins…There were 8 vertical steel frames, approximately 1,800 pounds each. 16 base plates fit on 64 anchor bolts flawlessly.Taking shape with each frameBy noon all 8 frames are in place!Next, cross bracing is added. Very complicated alignment must occur. Makes my stomach turn!Miraculously, they fit. After months of adjustments, some as small as 1/8″ on paper, they actually fit!Drone viewDrone viewCouldn’t have done it without Hans Early Nelson from Primitive Precision Metalcraft and Matt Carlyle from Carlyle Industries and their great crews.Hans and me
And that is a brief account of a most miraculous, trouble-free day! More soon–later this month, the rest will be installed and these frames will support 96 concrete castings made from city-issued recycling container lids with a combined weight of 17,280 pounds.
