Rainy Day Update on the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Project

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hi welcome again to Bob's Blueprints I'm

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Bob Chastain president and CEO. Uh, it's a

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rainy day outside so we're going to show

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you what's going on inside the office in

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our historic TGO building which is now

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construction offices. Don Johnson, uh one

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of the owners of Icon Construction is

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here with his giant computer screen and

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Sheva our zoo architect. Don I have a

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couple questions for you. What do you

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appreciate about rainy days? Um

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nothing. Right, right now we're fighting

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all the water. We've got three pumps and

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we're getting a fourth pump trying to

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pump everything out so we can get back

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to work hopefully by the end of the week

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to dry everything out.

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What's the biggest rock you've moved?

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Probably 80,000 lbs. So it's about 8 foot

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tall, 10 foot long, and six foot wide

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Sounds like a small rock. So we had to, we had

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to split it four times just so that we

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could get it out. Yes.

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Anything else you want to tell anybody

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at home? We're having fun out here. What is the

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strangest thing you've seen

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at the zoo so far on this project? Well,

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the thing I like the best is talking to

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Albert the goat. Yeah? Yeah. And then when

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we built the rocks up there, so he really

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likes the the gold pile. What does he say

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get you some help. I'm not sure what he

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says to me. He just kind of squeaks to me.

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He gets up and looks at me. But he only

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recognizes me when I have my hard hat

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and vest on, okay. Other times when I walk

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up there without it he does like "Who is

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that guy?" Could we get you first and

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last name. I'm Jim Milan with Rusin

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Construction. Okay What's your favorite piece of

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equipment on the ground so far? Um, would

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be my high cycle vibrator. Its how we achieve

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good consolidation in these tall walls

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and for quality. How much concrete are

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you going to be pouring on the job? Any

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way to help people understand that?Um

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it's quite a bit. Uh I don't have a total

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number in cubic yards. Um but the sloping

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elevations is is really challenging and

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what goes in first and and scheduling

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all that. Yeah. Um we're coming up on an

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architectural pour. It'll be a board form

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pour so it'll be concrete but it will

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look like wood when we're done with it.

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So cool. Yeah. No thank you. Everyone at

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Rusin is excited to be a part of this

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project. Perfect.

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How's it going Bob? Good. Uh largest rock

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uh that you've been a part of? You can't

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use Don's. Oh man I can't think of

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another one other bigger than the one he

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has. The one and that's that's always a

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super cool process too where they drill

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holes into it and put the expanding

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concrete in it to crack it to be able to

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even be able to move it around sight is is

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pretty impressive. What about your favorite

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animal? It's got to be the Meercats. Oh

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yeah. Yep Just walking by, and I know

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we're more so out of the north section

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now, but when we were over there they

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were just as curious as anybody else to

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see what was going on. So that was pretty

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interesting. Given we're not working

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outside today, what are you working on

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and how are we trying to stay on

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schedule? So with building with with it

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goes a lot of paperwork and so on rainy

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days like today it's it's it's a good

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time to catch back up on paperwork

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whether that's submitts or questions

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about the project so that once

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construction does resume we're ready to

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go. Let's see what Don has to say about

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what we do on rainy

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days. So Don we're not working outside

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what's getting done? i'm getting caught

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up on emails and uh updating schedules.

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How many do you have right now?

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20,244

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[Laughter]

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You've only deleted 14,000 I think we

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need to get some things done. So today is

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a good day to clean it up. Yes All right.

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Let's go see what Sheva's up to. What are

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we getting done on a rainy day. Well I

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only have 181 emails. Oh well that means

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you're like a little bit more studious.

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That's great. Um I'm actually multi

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multitasking. I'm working on um a design

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for retrofitting the existing giraffe

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basement to our commissary. Our new

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commissary and some research on gorillas

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and orangutans. So keeping busy on some

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other projects to keep the pipeline

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moving. Perfect We appreciate you

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following along and uh thanks for

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joining us on a rainy day.