Good news, groundbreaking, and a lesson to be learned.

I went by the inspector's office on Friday and gave Mark the engineer stamped drawings so now the only thing we're waiting on is the elevation certificate to get the full permit. Mark didn't seem mad or that we'd be fined or anything. He almost gave me the permit right then but we had to get Ms. Evan's signature and elevation certificate. He is very helpful if you know what your talking about. There was some misunderstanding when he went out to the site and saw the form work. . . he was looking at the wrong site plan. But there were some mistakes on our part with the drawings and the coordination. They were small things that are easy to fix so we don't even have to resubmit drawings, just a conformation email.
The groundbreaking went well. We had a small crowd and it was really cold. I had to go to the studio and do the finishing touches on the model for the groundbreaking. And by the time I got out to the site everyone was standing around waiting. It was a nice ceremony, Ms. Evans teared up when she spoke. We didn't know what to do so me and Mel had a group hug with her. The Habitat for Humanity Tech Chapter was awesome. They were really hard workers and there were a lot more than I expected. We got a lot done after the ceremony, as far as site clean-up.
Today we went out to the architecture annex to cut and bend rebar. We decided to go in shifts so people weren't standing around. But there is a very important lesson we all need to learn in this class.... S L O W D O W N A N D T H I N K I T T H R O U G H!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is always a sense of urgency and sometimes we get caught up in it.