Kevin Brasil's Blog

All of the material is beginning to arrive. Our order from McMaster and BoltsDepot arrived within only a few days. The square tubing from Gorilla Metals was put in. Our aluminum rails were ordered from Midwest Steel. With shipping and lead times varying by vendor we are definitely going to have to make some modification to our Gantt chart. Our original goal was to have a lot of our material by the first week of school. The new plan going forward is to work on our support structure first since all of the material for that will arrive the soonest. Immediately after that it'll be time to look into our turn and switch sections. Everything is beginning to come together.

This was the week I spent all semester anticipating. Our team was approved for a full budget! We have went ahead and ordered almost everything we need to get the project started. Since our original bill of materials was from over a month again I went ahead and did some more price comparison to help cut costs. The project is beginning to come together.