Progress
Update from Ian Shelburne, MTI Administrator
MTI Renovation
Update, 19 August 2004
The renovation and extension work on the new MTI campus is in finishing
stages now. All major construction is behind us, including front and rear
courtyard walls and the campus kitchen. Inside painting has been done
throughout, with the kitchen and toilet/shower block interiors due to
receive their last coats this week. The office floors are ready for vinyl
tiles, which should begin to go in beginning on Thursday. With the tiles in
place, we will be able to bring in the office furnishings and begin using
that wing of the facility as soon as a couple of weeks from now.
Facial bricks for the whole front side of the main building are already on
site, and masons will probably begin putting them on the outer walls next
week. Cement plaster on a six-by-nine-foot rectangle on the front of the
office wing is curing so that in a week or so work can begin on the mosaic
design for the MTI name and logo.
Concrete walkways have been poured along the length of the main building in
the rear courtyard, from the central breezeway to the kitchen, and from the
car-parking area to the front entrance near the offices.
A carpenter has received a deposit for timber purchase and is building a
hundred bed frames for use in the dorms. We have already bought a hundred
mattresses for use on the beds. This week we plan to obtain the boards that
will be used in the next few weeks to make library bookshelf units in
preparation for 11,000+ books that will soon arrive for MTI's library.
What remains to be done includes making a covered parking area (iron sheets
have already been purchased); buying and applying facial bricks to the sides
and rear of the main building, together with the outside of toilet/shower
block and kitchen; plastering and rough-casting the inside of the rear
courtyard wall; pouring walkways in the front courtyard; putting in a
concrete area for student and staff laundry; installing cooking
emplacements, sink, and accessories in the kitchen; covering our 40-foot
storage container with iron sheets; and general landscaping. At a later
stage we will probably put in one or two shaded eating/relaxing areas in the
rear courtyard.
See Pictures of MTI
Renovation
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