June 18th

The platform should be completely finished within the next few days. Construction started this morning. On the side furthest away from the building, the ground starts sloping downward. The contractors are decided to go with concrete blocks to support the structure. Since the telescope is extremely heavy, they need to make sure the supports will hold. They got most of the way done with the frame, but need to secure the cross supports tomorrow. Before they left they showed us how to secure the decking. They left us the wood and deck screws and we started building the deck. We were able to complete about a third of the decking.