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Part VII: Erie Community School is "Casting" Our Future to the Wind

By Mike Ryan

December 18, 2006

I would like to use this article space to bring you up-to-date on our wind turbine project through the means of a slide show.  This slide show will take you through the various construction phases we have seen and then I will share an update of future steps in our project timeline.  I hope you enjoy the pictorial journey:

  • Construction Site Sign
  • Initial Foundation Preparation 42'X42'X8'
  • Arrival of the Inbed Ring(weight 18,000 lbs. This is the locking ring for the turbines base section).
  • Preparation of sub-foundation with rebar.
  • Six (6) steel pillars used to hold the Inbed Ring in place. Steel wall forms surrounding the foundation site.
  • Vertical rebar in foundation site.
  • Within the vertical rebar there are multiple conduit tubes for various electrical and communication lines.
  • The building of a road was necessary to enable large cranes to enter the site area and eventually for the arrival of the turbine sections.
  • 100,000 lb. crane to lift the inbed ring onto the six (6) steel pillars.
  • The lift and placement of the inbed ring on December 15, 2006.

From this day forward the following events are tentatively scheduled:

  1. December 18-21:  Completion of the foundation site.  All rebar in place and interwoven through the inbed ring.
  2. December 22:  The pouring of the cement foundation.  Fifty (50) to Ninety (90) cement truck loads (520 cu. yds.) poured continuously over a period of up to sixteen (16) hours.
  3. December 23 - January 5, 2007:  The cure time for the cement site (approximately two(2) weeks.
  4. January 8, 2007 (approximately):  The lower turbine section and the upper nacell section to be delivered to Erie.
  5. Prior to erection of the turbine the painting of the Erie CUSD #1 logo (Cardinal) will be painted on both sides of the nacell.
  6. Electrical connection work will be initiated from the turbine to the four (4) building sites.

I will continue to update site construction pictures and information as they become available.

Thank you for your continued interest in our wind energy converter project!

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