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The Harmony Ridge West Apartments and Harvey S. Kline Wellness Center are starting to take shape

Construction Update -Mid-March
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We've got floors (and lots more walls, too)! – In early March, crews poured the concrete floor for the basement of Harmony Ridge West, and the walls for storage and other rooms in that area started going up quickly. They're almost done now.

In the meantime, the outer walls of the apartments continue to go up, and now the floors are being poured there as well. The ground-floor Symphony and Madrigal units were the first to have floors; others are following quickly.

Our tallest resident – In preparation for another major phase of the project, a new addition to the Harmony Ridge project rolled onto campus and has taken up residence on the building site. It's an 80-ton, lattice-book, crawler crane, and it's here for a stay of several months.

Its job is to place the pre-cast concrete floor planks – some 20 feet long and weighing 10 tons – on each level of the building. The crane is mobile because that heavy lifting has to be done in pretty close proximity to each plank's final resting place, so if you look often, you'll eventually see our tall neighbor move around quite a bit. (UPDATE – The crane's work has begun – see photos below.)

Conewago Enterprises, which also is supplying the floor planks, provided this notable addition to the Cross Keys skyline.

(see more photos of the crane, concrete being poured, and other construction progress below)

The photos immediately below show the concrete floor being poured for the basement of Harmony Ridge West. Note the boom through which the concrete is propelled from a truck in the parking lot to the work site.

The next group of photos show how much progress had been made in just over a week – the walls in the basement are now nearly complete.

The other end of Harmony Ridge West became the site for concrete pouring after the work was finished in the basement. The photos below show the ground floor Symphony and Madrigal units getting their floors.

During the week of March 24, the crane began to do its work, initially placing the concrete “planks” over the basement. In the sequence below, the crane lifts a plank off of the delivery truck, swings it over to the building, and, with the help of the construction crew, gently lowers it into place. It's pretty exacting work, finished off with a minor “tweak” from the least high-tech piece of equipment involved, a large crowbar.

The last photos shows the crane on site and waiting to be called on to do its work.