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Old 07-01-2014, 10:47 AM   #81
glatt
 
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It seems they are building a maze in the National Building Museum hall.
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It's pretty cool looking. I first saw it several days ago, and went back recently to check on the progress.

It was hot out and I was just enjoying the air conditioning while absentmindedly watching the movement of the workers three floors below me. After a couple minutes, I started paying attention to what they were doing.

In the lower corner of this picture, you can see the cutting station where they are cutting the thin sheets of plywood to sheath the walls. In the upper right corner, you can see the guy who is installing the sheets of plywood.
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They framed the walls all at once like you would normally do with construction, and are applying the skin of plywood to the studs.
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There is normally a real benefit to doing all the framing at once followed by the wall sheathing. You can quickly lay out the walls and then just slap the sheathing on all at once. It's an economy of scale kind of thing. But I think it was a mistake with this maze.
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