As board members toured the grounds, tangible proof of progress surrounded them. The blinding concrete lay cured and ready – a pristine canvas awaiting its structural brushstrokes. Vast quantities of rebar, the subterranean skeletal framework, had already been painstakingly fabricated and meticulously placed within the awaiting excavations.

Concrete trucks operated like heavy industrial choreographers, disgorge their cargoes into the foundation formworks.

For the board members watching this industrial choreography unfold, it was impossible not to be swept-up into the emotional of creation.