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The dining hall is an 80 year old building
and it is designed to cook for about 250 people in the kitchen and
seats 266 people. So, back when we were a smaller camp
it was absolutely fine, but now that we have increased in size,
we decided we need a new spot.
Maintaining the history and tradition,
and creating an environment that was very similar to what we have now
is vital
to campers embracing the building. My understanding
understanding is that the biggest obstacle is going to be time.
It is a 9 month window. It is Northern Michigan, so you never know what you are going to get.
My goal was to make sure I had somebody in here that really knew their stuff,
because I just know enough to be dangerous.
burgers shelves was uh... was in the weather and the time frame
e when i first at the schedule slave boy we've got a lot of work to do a short
period time
and uh... but the weather was the biggest challenge
we had a webcam here
all the whole job
and a lot of times i've got a phone call area we can see and i said well that's
because uh...
because it's a more as a great now
know that you can see it's because uh... we're working out in force and who is he
was in a difficult schedule
now we approached it
with that in mind
hit the ground running with some elsewhere
color selections subplot of items were already predetermined so
things were turnaround rather quickly from the air protection from the owner
and that all happened pre-construction and save time when we uh... when we got
to the
to the turnover date when they gave us the old building and we we will just
return down south we had uh... things of mine and we hit the ground running and
can look back
primer team standpoint we had some really good subcontractors that
mamet job huh
uh... actually brought in more manpower things just uh... went together with a
lot of proper coordination melodic good teamwork out here
let's hope we don't see more snow faces is sustainable
agree effort player
by subcontractors
superintendent keeping things organized in
catching things before it's too late
and from the project managers have standpoint
throughout the job we're going to get changes things pop up and they need to
be priced in you know
it's my job to try to get those those prices together and get 'em to the owner
for review
and get decisions made quickly business traveler
we have very little time for
or should we shouldn't we we need a turn these quotes around fast
cam reviewed make sure that's the the best option
and uh... implemented
we try to find manhood
but the fastest in the
the best way to do things with the minimal cost we have a contingency setup
on these jobs will be we don't want to use
you know we want to give money back at the end of the job they were going to go
up a lot of the older
kitchen equipment
and
we obviously did very well with our contingency money and we that enabled
them to buy
um... pretty much all new kitchen equipment so all of the camps
happy with
being able to do especially
jeff sesame
executive chef
the design features were very similar to the original expose trusses
a lot of the time
it's a
definitely gives a vast rustic feel the toll ceilings elude original building
uh... ten twelve foot ceilings and now we're graffiti foot to the to the trust
sign it creates more of her
grand homework and it's a long haul itself you're thirty foot wide the very
long so
pizza
it's earn inspiring people come in
no
nobody got hurt
for the people who know better gaining
and and i think that includes people who
just come one time
like one jen when i was talking to here
has been here for the last forty six years
it really is a special place
you know it's it's full of special memories
families and so much canisters of is something that will reportedly make
friendships and i keep those over time
so when i think about it
it's important that they think are able to kinda continued to think about it in
a way that day
so we think that this facility is really a challenge for us to make sure that we
didn't
do something that looked like we were starting over or throwing away the older
who's been doing something else and i think i think a stunning
missing any comment
really doesn't it was very impressed with
i really feel good about what it was
but you know it just doesn't compare and i said this to someone earlier tonight
it doesn't compare to what it's like twenty four
you know that's the beauty of it when it's being used for its purpose
and you can see the kids running around with their ice cream in them
comfortably letting them go
they know that they're safe
and uh... and where everyone is together and
there's a lot of noise
and a lot of happiness
and that's that's what we're going to be about i'd think we'd not
market to make lots
enabled
will be uh... a memorial to our
are real effort
we did it right now
we had two people working with us help make that happen