It has roughly been a year since Hana and Kirill left for Denmark. Necils is in Hong Kong, finishing his Cal Poly summer abroad program and going to Japan within the next week.<\/p>\n
While we were away, so much has changed at the garden; all of the land is now planted and it’s very green. It was great to be back.<\/p>\n
Today we signed the engineering and building contracts with Brad Mimlitz of Rammed Earth Builders and Peter Jarratt, paying the $1000 towards the engineering cost from the kickstarter fund.<\/p>\n
While we were away, we arranged a percolation test, which was done for $1000, also from our kickstarter fund. It was done at a discount rate by Clarence Jiang, GE, QSD, Salem Engineering Group<\/a>, who we would like to thank for the work. The report is viewable here: http:\/\/kirillvolchinskiy.com\/huerta_del_valle\/_documents\/tests\/3-216-0486%20Percolation%20Testing,%20Community%20Garden,%20Campus%20Ave%20and%20Maitland%20Ave,%20Ontario-1_copy.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n We needed the percolation test to aid the design of the drainage for the amphitheater, and design the grading plan. Kenny Reyes, EIT, Assistant Engineer<\/i><\/em> from Blair, Church & Flynn<\/a> has been doing the work on the grading plan pro-bono under the guidance of Cordie R. Qualle, PE MCE. We would like to thank both for devoting many hours to the project.<\/p>\n We would like to thank Russell Gulke, PE, LS (Cal Poly, Pomona 1989) from WestLAND Group<\/a> (Group, Inc. Land Surveyors – Civil Engineers – GIS) for providing a survey for the site (a $3,000+ job) pro-bono for us.<\/p>\n We would like to thank Christopher Nielsen for spearheading the structural engineering for the shipping container structure.<\/p>\n We would like to thank Mohammad Shaikhsaheb for working on the electrical plan and solar system design pro-bono.<\/p>\n Finally, we would like to thank Hessah Alzayed for doing the lighting design for all of the structures pro-bono!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n\t\t