P.O. Box 5
Afton, NY 13730
607.639.8200

New brickwork emerges from its cocoon of Winter plastic.

QuickTime Movies
of ACS Building Project

HVAC to the Roof Top (:50 sec, 1.7MB streaming video) Click here

Library Steel (:45 sec., 1MB streaming video) Click Here

Roofing the New Gym (:15 sec, 800KB streaming video) Click Here

Steel (3:04 sec. clip, 7 MB streaming video) Click Here

A Bridge for Bumps Creek (3:34 sec. clip, 10 MB streaming video) Click Here

Panarama of athletic fields from hilltop (25 sec. clip, 504KB streaming video) Click here.

Panorama of the Auditorium rubble (40 sec. clip. 1.7MB streaming video) Click here.

Auditorium and band room demolition during week of August 26th (41 sec. clip / 1012K)
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Excavation equipment at work during the week of August 13th (45 sec. clip /1.5MB).
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A last farewell to the Auditorium (Thank you Gene Pitney),(2 min. 17 sec. clip, 3.1MB streaming video) Click here.

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Groundbreaking ceremonies
on August 10, 2001.

Excavation begins
on the parking lot
and playing fields
during the week
of August 12th.

Logging and stump-removal adjacent to the current ball fields
during the week
of August 19th.

Asbestos abatement completed, foundations being started, and the Auditorium poised for demolition
during the week of August 26th.

Down in a day,
Wednesday, August 29th.

Using a delicate touch on September 5th (the first day of school), this excavator operator coaxes the last of the 1929 structure to ground level.

The week of September 9th included continuing excavation of the site adjacent to the gym and 1908 building, as well as pouring of the perimeter footing.

Parking has moved to the lower athletic field while the new parking site is graded and rolled.

Construction crews got a early foggy-morning start on September 21st.

If you squint your eyes, you can almost imagine these tiers and piles as softball, baseball, and field hockey fields. (October 2001)

Excavation for drainage on the athletic fields, curbing and surface preparation for the new parking lot, and perimeter foundation work characterized project activities the second week of October.

Equipment continued to rumble through October. Foundation work moved from the perimeter to internal footings. Paving and curbing continued on the parking lot. The new Bumps Creek bridge was hoisted into place on
November 1st.

The crane has been busy unloading steel beams from flatbed trailers as well as lifting beams overhead to site locations. Students have enjoyed watching the acrobatic workers as they scale the high steel.

With the installation of decking on the steel framework, crews poured concrete floors and surfaced them high above ground level.

Cinder block walls begin to go up at the corner of the future MS/HS Library.

At the other end of the building, cranes positioned enormous sections of septic tanks into a truly enormous hole in ground.