Habitat for Humanity
Blitz Build

 On Dec.7 2002,In Palm Desert Calif. Habitat for Humanity and Ram Development set out to build a house in one day. The company I work for, Ron Sawyer construction provided a framing crew and our construction forklift. Also A.J.Ambilli const. and Page const. Provided framing crews
We started at 6:00 am, Framing the walls on the sidewalk while the cement crew from Tidwell Concrete Co.worked on the slab foundation. Whites Crane Service provided their BIG crane and when the slab was ready we craned the walls into place. It was controlled chaos for awhile but we managed to keep the ball rolling, And when I left at 10:00pm it was close to being done. The next morning at 9:00am when I went back to move our forklift they had just a few little things to do to finish, It's just amazing what people can do when we work together, Everybody that worked on the house donated their time and skills along with several buisnesses that donated all the supplies to build and all the food to feed the hundreds of workers.
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blitz build cement crew geting the slab ready framing getting roof parts ready craning a pile of walls
we started framing on the sidewalk at 6:00 am cement crew geting the slab ready Not a whole lotta room to work getting roof parts ready craning up a stack of walls
most of the walls up windows in, masons working on garden wall flying a wall into place the chaos within the morning after
most of the walls up windows in, masons working on garden wall flying a wall into place, notice it already has plumbing installed controlled chaos inside the house the morning after, finishing touches are all that remain


Special thanks to....
Hub construction specialties for all the nails, building hardware, ect.
Builders supply of Palm Springs for all the lumber
And all these other people and companys that made this happen




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