March 7 had many volunteers at the site to get started on the actual construction process. Of course, there was a lot of work being done on the actual rail system first, so the house would not be started too close to any tent walls once we got above the floor.

Mike Gestwick and Turc work on the leveling of the rails.

Other students are assembling the various tools and figuring out how they work.

Students who have never worked in construction get pointers on how things go together.

As you can see the footprint of the house is going to be rather large in the tent. The old plugin rail from the parking lot has been cut off and removed so the house will sit closer to the ground.

there is a lot of leveling,

measuring...

and hammering going on...