Pouring foundation walls

The foundation walls were poured this week, so the house is beginning to take shape. I had never appreciated how much work it is to prepare the walls for pouring. The walls themselves are large (likely 12' in some sections) and are heavily reinforced with re-bar. Thus, it took a crew a couple of weeks to build the walls and place the re-bar. Once everything was in place, the actual pouring of the walls took about 4 hours. Below are some photos and videos of the process and finished product.

Below is an overview picture of the foundation walls with a pump truck in action. The forms themselves are heavy metal.

Here is an inside picture of one of the walls with re-bar in full display. As you can imagine, placing the re-bar is a time-consuming task.

Below is a link to a video of the walls being poured.

Notice how tall the finished walls are in the basement. This picture is looking towards the unfinished basement storage room.

Finally, here is a video of the finished product.

The next steps are putting in the foundation drainage pipes, waterproofing the walls, and getting water and sewer feeds into the house.