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We need YOU to help Open Our Doors!
Exactly two years ago, the National Marine Life Center had a crisis situation. The roof over our rehabilitation facility began to collapse and we had to move out of the building.
We put in a massive effort to raise the $3.1 million needed to remove the original building and replace it with a new hospital [...]
Roll-up Door
The “working door” of our new hospital was installed today – a roll-up door at the rear of the building through which dolphins, porpoises, and pilot whales will eventually be admitted. Installed by Overhead Door Garage Headquarters, the roll-up steel door is 12 feet tall by 12 feet wide. Eventually, a bridge crane will be [...]
Pouring concrete on the mezzanine
The concrete trucks and crews were back for another pour! This one involved pouring the concrete floor in the center section of the mezzanine where the pumps and filters of the hospital’s life support systems will be located. Crews took care in finishing the floor to add slopes towards drains and to work around cutouts [...]
Upper Cape Tech Students Help Build Hospital!
Students from the Plumbing and Heating Shop at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School got a real-world lesson in radiant floor heat. With the guidance of master plumber Bill Battles and his crew from Village Plumbing, the fifteen students learned the principles of radiant floor heat and helped to place tubing. Students also worked [...]
Insulation
One of the most important features of our new marine animal hospital is that it will be well-insulated and weather-tight. When you’ve worked in a cold, leaky warehouse for years, believe me, this is really really exciting! The hospital will feature R-30 insulation in the ceiling and R-24 in the walls.
According to Wikipedia, the [...]
Up on the Rooftop
Today, we took a field trip to the roof top of the National Marine Life Center’s new marine animal hospital! We learned about the standing seam method of metal roof construction and the Simple Saver insulation liner that is so safe you can walk on it. In fact, it is OSHA-approved for fall safety. Brian [...]
We have walls!
Over the past week, the building skeleton has been filled in with exterior wall panels. Crews from H&S Construction are working hard to finish so we can open our new marine animal hospital by October 31st for sea turtle stranding season. It’s been wonderfully fun to see the building look more and more complete each [...]
There’s something mesmerizing about a caterpillar.
There is just something mesmerizing about a caterpillar.
No, not that kind.
Well yes, that kind also….
but I was actually thinking about this kind of caterpillar!
I could watch these caterpillars for hours!
It’s so exciting to watch all the activity around the construction site. On any given day, there may be four or five subcontracting companies present, each [...]
The first wall panel
Today, workers from H&S Construction installed the first wall panels on the National Marine Life Center’s new marine animal hospital. The pre-engineered steel panels are being hung horizontally, in a pattern reminiscent of traditional “clapboard” siding. The galvanized panels will weather into a shade similar to “Cape Cod Gray.” Most importantly, these walls will provide [...]
We have doors!
Some of the construction work is wonderfully loud. Our building shakes as heavy equipment pours concrete, dumps fill, drills through concrete, and places beams. The air echoes with the rumble of trucks and cranes and backhoes. Whenever we hear a particularly intriguing construction sound, we race outside to check out the progress. It’s an exciting [...]
Rising Steel
With the Cape Cod Canal railroad bridge standing sentry, the steel building that will make up NMLC’s rehab center gradually claims its own place along Buzzards Bay’s landscape. This is the final week that construction enthusiasts will be able to see “right through” the rapidly forming hospital building, because the insulating walls and metal and [...]
Knit one, purlin two.
We’re learning a whole new vocabulary as the building rises….
A “column” is a primary, vertical beam.
A “girder” is a support beam.
A “girt” is a horizontal structure in a wall.
A “joist” is a horizontal structure that supports a ceiling, roof, or floor.
And a “purlin” is a horizontal structure in a roof.
Many thanks to Mike Turcotte and [...]
You’re not the only one waiting for this building to open!
Thanks to the creative juices of Joe Higgins and Rattle Marketing, a new sign graces the front of our hospital construction project. The sign features a photo of an endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle racing for its ocean home after having been rehabilitated, and cosestudi’s conceptual design of NMLC’s new marine animal hospital. One can [...]
Turtle Tanks Move to New NMLC Hospital
Four turtle tanks have been moved into the new NMLC marine animal hospital in downtown Buzzards Bay as the hospital takes shape around them. Construction works moves quickly at the hospital that will open its doors for new patients on October 31st. The NMLC marine animal hospital will rehabilitate sea turtles, seals, porpoises, dolphins and [...]
NMLC Turtle Ward Takes Shape
As steel workers continue to frame out the new NMLC marine animal hospital in Buzzards Bay, other workmen poured and spread concrete to shape out the hospital’s Turtle Ward. The NMLC marine animal hospital will open on October 31 in time to accept the rarest and most endangered sea turtles in the world, Kemp’s ridleys, [...]
FIRST BEAM! Marine Animal Hospital Rises on Cape Cod Canal
With a 250-foot crane, constructions workers began to lift 40-foot/1200-pound steel beams, joists and girts, and assembled these jigsaw puzzle pieces into the new NMLC marine animal hospital in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. This 15,000 square foot, 100,000 gallon marine animal hospital will rehabilitate the world’s rarest and most endangered sea turtles, seals, porpoises, dolphins and [...]
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane!! It’s a Building Crane!!!
“Look up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a building crane!” Sound like the opening scene of another Superman rescue? If you’re a stranded marine animal on Cape Cod or in Buzzards Bay, today would seem like Superman has finally arrived.
A 250-foot crane towers over the foundation of the [...]
Dog Days
One of the many joys of NMLC’s construction project are all the great dogs we’ve met. They supervise our construction work with toothy grins. They keep us company on long hauls. They amuse and entertain. They support and motivate. Perhaps it is because of their inspiration that we are so motivated to help other animals [...]
New Marine Animal Hospital Arrives!
Six flatbed trucks rolled down Main Street, Buzzards Bay this morning. They carried the National Marine Life Center’s new marine animal hospital to our site at 120 Main Street where the foundation has been prepared and the building can begin to rise.
Our new hospital will open on October 30th just in time to accept patients [...]
Marine Animal Hospital Takes Shape
The construction teams from Simmons Concrete, Cape Cod Ready Mix, R & H Construction and W.W. Reich Inc. are working tirelessly to get the Sea Turtle Clinic ready for underground piping.
To date Simmons Concrete and Cape Cod Ready Mix have poured 355 yards of concrete…with another 12 yards today.
Simmons Concrete Team pouring concrete
Cape Cod Aggregates [...]
