Rehoboth Beach officials, lifeguards and citizens held a topping-off ceremony Jan. 22 for the new Rehoboth Beach Patrol building at the end of Baltimore Avenue. Mayor Stan Mills signs the piece of sheathing that signifies the topping off. CHRIS FLOOD PHOTOS
About two dozen people brave frigid temperatures to attend the event.
A+ Construction’s Ron Lewis, left, and Mike Parsons hang the piece of sheathing above the second-floor window.
Mayor Stan Mills briefly speaks on the cold day.
The names of current lifeguards and lifeguards remembered are on the piece of sheathing.
The sheathing is placed above the window that will let a lot of natural light into the offices of the beach patrol.
Bob Sturgis was a lifeguard from 1968 to 1972.
It can’t be seen from the Boardwalk anymore, but the city’s downtown water tower can still be seen from the beach.
The trusses sit ready to be installed.
The time capsule representing the beach patrol’s 100 years of history was installed in the lower right corner of the wall facing Baltimore Avenue a few months ago.
The snowstorm came and went, but work was still done.
For the past couple of weeks, the entrance to the Atlantic Sands has been moved a little farther west.
Masons work on some of the second-floor brick work.
In the 100 years of the Rehoboth Beach Patrol, there haven’t been too many photos taken with a lifeguard stand in snow. The Polar Bear Plunge takes place Feb. 2.
The upgraded facility is needed, but this view on the Boardwalk shows it’s much larger than the old one-story building.
If the shadows are any indication, the boards being used on the roof are pretty straight.
This photo was taken Dec. 20. The topping-off ceremony was held a month later.
It’s good to have a little fun at the work place.
The north side of the building is going to look a lot different than it did before.
Even without the trusses installed, the structure towers above the Boardwalk.
This was taken about a month after the concrete for the second floor was poured.
Even with snow, ice and freezing temperatures, the construction team was able to get from this point Jan. 3 to the topping-off ceremony Jan. 21.
Hard to work in the snow.
With snow on the beach and snow blowing off the roof of the Atlantic Sands next door, this photo just looks cold.
The sheathing has started to be installed in this photo.
With sheathing being installed, the lines of the building are coming into place.
Rehoboth Beach officials, lifeguards and citizens held a topping-off ceremony Jan. 22 for the new Rehoboth Beach Patrol building at the end of Baltimore Avenue. Mayor Stan Mills signs the piece of sheathing that signifies the topping off. CHRIS FLOOD PHOTOS
About two dozen people brave frigid temperatures to attend the event.
A+ Construction’s Ron Lewis, left, and Mike Parsons hang the piece of sheathing above the second-floor window.
Mayor Stan Mills briefly speaks on the cold day.
The names of current lifeguards and lifeguards remembered are on the piece of sheathing.
The sheathing is placed above the window that will let a lot of natural light into the offices of the beach patrol.
Bob Sturgis was a lifeguard from 1968 to 1972.
It can’t be seen from the Boardwalk anymore, but the city’s downtown water tower can still be seen from the beach.
The trusses sit ready to be installed.
The time capsule representing the beach patrol’s 100 years of history was installed in the lower right corner of the wall facing Baltimore Avenue a few months ago.
The snowstorm came and went, but work was still done.
For the past couple of weeks, the entrance to the Atlantic Sands has been moved a little farther west.
Masons work on some of the second-floor brick work.
In the 100 years of the Rehoboth Beach Patrol, there haven’t been too many photos taken with a lifeguard stand in snow. The Polar Bear Plunge takes place Feb. 2.
The upgraded facility is needed, but this view on the Boardwalk shows it’s much larger than the old one-story building.
If the shadows are any indication, the boards being used on the roof are pretty straight.
This photo was taken Dec. 20. The topping-off ceremony was held a month later.
It’s good to have a little fun at the work place.
The north side of the building is going to look a lot different than it did before.
Even without the trusses installed, the structure towers above the Boardwalk.
This was taken about a month after the concrete for the second floor was poured.
Even with snow, ice and freezing temperatures, the construction team was able to get from this point Jan. 3 to the topping-off ceremony Jan. 21.
Hard to work in the snow.
With snow on the beach and snow blowing off the roof of the Atlantic Sands next door, this photo just looks cold.
The sheathing has started to be installed in this photo.
With sheathing being installed, the lines of the building are coming into place.
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Rehoboth Beach Patrol
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
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Almost a year after construction began, Rehoboth Beach celebrated the installation of trusses on the city’s new beach patrol and comfort station building with a topping-off ceremony Jan. 21.
The building’s trusses have been in place for about a week. To celebrate, city officials, staff, current lifeguards and former lifeguards signed a piece of sheathing that was installed above a window facing Baltimore Avenue.
Due to the frigid temperatures, Mayor Stan Mills kept his comments short. He thanked the two dozen people who attended the event and said he’d have much more to say at the ribbon-cutting ceremony in May.
As for construction, J.D. Bartlett, project manager for the city’s construction management firm EDiS, said during an update to commissioners Jan. 17 that the recent snowstorm and subsequent low temperatures have caused some delays, but there’s still a five-week buffer from when the project is expected to be substantially complete and the opening of the season mid-May.
It’s incremental, but costs for the project continue to rise and the total cost is nearing $1 million over the original estimate – the original contract cost for the project was about $4.9 million. The current total is now $5.7 million.
Since the beginning of December, there have been about $60,000 worth of change orders approved, half of which are related to the installation of additional trench drains to the stormwater system to protect the ground level from rain infiltration. Another $10,000 was related to the removal and replacement of an existing ramp and planter so there could be a proper tie in.
Bartlett said the trench drain was added now for preventative measures and because it would be much more expensive to add in the future.
Bartlett said there’s another $25,000 in change orders pending. One is related to soil spoils removal and the other is related to demolition of an underground conduit that was discovered during the relocation of the transformer, he said.
Looking forward, the construction team is pushing to have the building weather tight by March 1. That’s an important date to hit because it will allow for work on the temperature-controlled equipment, he said.
Rehoboth Beach officials, lifeguards and citizens held a topping-off ceremony Jan. 22 for the new Rehoboth Beach Patrol building at the end of Baltimore Avenue. Mayor Stan Mills signs the piece of sheathing that signifies the topping off. CHRIS FLOOD PHOTOS
About two dozen people brave frigid temperatures to attend the event.
A+ Construction’s Ron Lewis, left, and Mike Parsons hang the piece of sheathing above the second-floor window.
Mayor Stan Mills briefly speaks on the cold day.
The names of current lifeguards and lifeguards remembered are on the piece of sheathing.
The sheathing is placed above the window that will let a lot of natural light into the offices of the beach patrol.
Bob Sturgis was a lifeguard from 1968 to 1972.
It can’t be seen from the Boardwalk anymore, but the city’s downtown water tower can still be seen from the beach.
The trusses sit ready to be installed.
The time capsule representing the beach patrol’s 100 years of history was installed in the lower right corner of the wall facing Baltimore Avenue a few months ago.
The snowstorm came and went, but work was still done.
For the past couple of weeks, the entrance to the Atlantic Sands has been moved a little farther west.
Masons work on some of the second-floor brick work.
In the 100 years of the Rehoboth Beach Patrol, there haven’t been too many photos taken with a lifeguard stand in snow. The Polar Bear Plunge takes place Feb. 2.
The upgraded facility is needed, but this view on the Boardwalk shows it’s much larger than the old one-story building.
If the shadows are any indication, the boards being used on the roof are pretty straight.
This photo was taken Dec. 20. The topping-off ceremony was held a month later.
It’s good to have a little fun at the work place.
The north side of the building is going to look a lot different than it did before.
Even without the trusses installed, the structure towers above the Boardwalk.
This was taken about a month after the concrete for the second floor was poured.
Even with snow, ice and freezing temperatures, the construction team was able to get from this point Jan. 3 to the topping-off ceremony Jan. 21.
Hard to work in the snow.
With snow on the beach and snow blowing off the roof of the Atlantic Sands next door, this photo just looks cold.
The sheathing has started to be installed in this photo.
With sheathing being installed, the lines of the building are coming into place.Event Details :
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Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
United States
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