Bob meets with Askia Aquil of the St. Petersburg Neighborhood Housing Services to talk about the upcoming project, taking place in a revitalizing area. Next, Bob discusses the stem-wall foundation building process with general contractor Buba Barrow.
Clip Summary
Bob meets with Askia Aquil of the St. Petersburg Neighborhood Housing Services (SPNHS) to talk about the upcoming project in Bartlett Park, a neighborhood being revitalized through public-private partnerships. SPNHS helps low-income, first-time homeowners purchase, finance, and maintain their properties so that they and their neighborhoods can thrive. Next, Bob joins Buba Barrow of Barrow Construction, the general contractor for the container-built housing project, and Ray Price of St. Petersburg Neighborhood Housing Services (SPNHS), the project manager for the job. Barrow explains how the stem-wall foundation is constructed. This type of foundation is the sturdiest possible support for a home built in hurricane territory and subject to wind, storm surge, and uplift. The rectangular foundation is ready for the intermodal steel building units (ISBUs) that will arrive on site and be welded to the steel plates set in the concrete as weld points around the perimeter of the foundation.
