The building continues......

The cement footings dried and next came.......the styrofoam???
It's been many years since I've seen a house being built, and boy, has the process come a long way since my childhood days of climbing through the new construction on Nicholson Cres.! Instead of days on end of stacking heavy cement blocks for the foundation, the new system is the construction worker's version of lego blocks! In a matter of a few hours, they had click together all these styrofoam pieces and voila, foundation complete. The next day, a big truck came, with a big arm, that dispensed cement which they used to fill in the space between the styrofoam framing. I don't know what's got me more shocked.....the fact that such an incredible technology has been developed or that it took this long to take such a popular building concept that kids have used to create masterpieces for decades and finally apply it to real life!