Okay, so there are no actual troubled waters that we’re building this bridge over, but the Simon and Garfunkel song reference could not be overlooked (I personally prefer Whitney Houston and Cece Winans’s live rendition, but that’s neither here nor there). But anyway, over the last week, we the Community+Build students made significant strides and efforts towards completing the bridge portion of Ardmore Park.
On Friday, we finished grinding down welds where handrails and guardrails meet, installing the actual handrails to the bridge, and we cut off some of the excess rods that were extending from the ends of the bridge. Once those rods were cut, we grinded them to a chamfer at the ends so that they would not pose any risks to anyone who began to use the park.
As we continued to put the finishing touches on this bridge, one of the photographers from Clemson’s main campus came down to document the hard work that we the Community Build students have put into this project since the end of last spring. Friday marked a great ending to a project that challenged us, taught us the power of good communication skills, teamwork, and lots of patience.
