Crew is already working on the second layer at the "v" on the north side. Blue "tarp" going down. Looks like an all out push today on doing as much of the hard roof as they can.
Yes, it looks like there are two crews out there now, working on putting down layer 2 on the north side of the roof.
They are making good progress. Probably will work from sun up to sun down. They are getting it down a lot faster than when they first started doing this.
Tomorrow looks like another lost day, at least as far as putting layer two down. Forecast calls for rain most of the day. So they have to take advantage of the nice weather today as much as they can.
The long term forecast looks good. Maybe a little rain in the middle of the week but nothing like yesterday or tomorrow.
With the awful weather yesterday, most of the SW gap remains uncovered. It would be great if they could finish the hard shell layer one today, before the heavy rains coming tomorrow. I think it is very unlikely. They just haven't gone fast in this corner putting layer one down.
Now, the crew that put layer one down on the north and east sides made great time. They will presumably now focus on the SW corner. If they work at the rate they worked at elsewhere, maybe they can get done today. I still think Sunday will be the day that part gets completed.
I think they are in the process of moving the crane that was in the NW corner to the east side of the building. It can then help finish things off on that side.
Here is a screen capture of one of the crane pieces getting moved over there:
As an aside, the view from Lawrinson that we have all grown accustomed to seeing is kind of deceiving. Because that camera is 20 floors up from ground level, well above the top of roof and even the crown truss, you get a nice perspective but it is not the view you will see when you are on campus at the ground level.
Even the red tailed hawk camera perspective, shown above, is located on top of a building and does not show you how the roof will look when to approach the dome on foot.
It is going to be very hard to see the PTFE section of the roof from the ground. You can see it from Mount Olympus and maybe up on the top of the drumlin at Thornden Park. Maybe up at Woodland Reservoir near Corcoran, or up near the practice green at Pompey Golf Club.
But from almost everywhere, you are only going to be able to see the hard shell part of the roof. You can tell this by looking at the red tailed hawk images. So if you have angina about the bumpy look of the PTFE section of the roof and don't like the arcs much, I wouldn't worry about it much.