Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden drawing. Preliminary sketch of project. Architectural drawing. Project drawing. Sample of Twin Tower replicas and materials. Capt. Joe Matsch, Brad Burlingame and Jim Ply reviewing design at committee meeting. Jim Ply, Linda Briskman, George Chavez and Reggie Sully looking over project plans. Jim Ply from Oakcrest Landscape, Gidas and Paresh (project architect) and Massood from SMG Stone (our stone supplier) met to go over the different stone samples for the project. Gidas Peteris, Mike Liongson and Capt. Joe Match laying out the project space. Project plan for laying the black granite stone on the pathway. Photo of the pentagon plan for how the exact specifications were calculated based on a 1951 carpenter book which provides the formula for a true pentagon. Layout of pentagon begins. Committee planning. Committee Construction Commencement. Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Committee Committee meeting. Brad Burlingame speaks at committee meeting. September 11, 2010 Groundbreaking Ceremony. Groundbreaking ceremony shovels. Beverly Hills Fire Department at Groundbreaking. Display of WTC beam at Groundbreaking Ceremony. Color Guards at Groundbreaking Ceremony. Beverly Hills City Council and Political Leaders with Fire Chief Scanton about to break ground. Traditional Scottish Bagpiper. Beverly Hills Fire Trucks saluting this wonderful ceremony. Beam dimensions of a standard W18 x 50 x30 foot long floor support beam. This type of beam can support 60,000 lbs or the equivalent of 15 pickup trucks or stacked on it and not bend. Close-up of the WTC beam. Photo of the Twin Tower beam. Close-up of how this steel beam was destroyed. Beam close-up Twin Tower beam image. Image of the beam close-up. The bent beam. Close-up of the fasteners. Side view of the beam. The beam was heated and bent. The WTC beam photo from another angle. Beam close-up view. Top view of bent beam from the WTC. The 9/11 Memorial site before the project on the northwest corner of Rexford and Burton Way in Beverly Hills. Creating the space for the Memorial Garden project. The site is ready to build the Memorial Garden. Beginnng stages of the Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden project. Aerial view of the Memorial Garden in the beginning stages. Another view of the pentagon. This is an important photo, because it is the exact layout to establish where the pentagon will be located. The pentagon laid out in rough form. Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden as of May 26th. Aerial photo of the Pentagon construction. Close-up of the Pentagon construction. The construction progress on the Pentagon. Bob from Champion Crane helping to move the beam from the Beverly Hills Fire Station to the Memorial Garden site. Beverly Hills Fire Captain Joe Matsch helped coordinate bringing the beam through the station. Twin Tower beam moving from its temporary home at the Beverly Hills Fire Department station to the Beverly Hills Memorial Garden. Champion Crane helpes with the final layout for the location of the Twin Tower beam and the main support post in the Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden. Champion Crane crew installing the WTC Twin Tower beam. Beverly Hills Fire Department helping put everything in place. Teamwork. Gidas Peteris of Peteris Architects and Jim Ply of Oak Crest Landscape. Beverly Hills Fire Chief Timothy Scranton and Captain Joe Matsch. Side view of beam. A coating was applied to the steel beam to prevent it from rusting. Precision work. Working on the main support post. Jon Montgomery of Anvil Steel prepping column for beam attachment Installing beam. Testing out the beam fitting for night lighting. SMG Stone delivering the stone for the path. Black granite order. Solomon and Massood of SMG Stone crew at work. Reggie Sully from Peter McCoy Construction put two flags at the top for the Topping Off Ceremony! Twin Towers completed over 3 tons of concrete was used to construct each tower. Concrete superintendent Mauricio and his crew from Donald Scheffler company completed each 14' tower to specifications. The Memorial Garden planted beautiful Bottle Trees. Memorial Garden site. Valley Crest Trees Company. Jim Ply and Oak Crest Landscaping. Planting trees for the Memorial Garden. Fire Chief Tim Scranton with the crew. Great team working on the project. Aerial photo from City security camera, Committe Hand Prints. Preparing the slate to pour concrete. Laying the concrete. Architect Gidas Peteris and Contractor Reggie Sully. Architect Gidas Peteris and Captain Joe Matsch. Beverly Hills Fire Department's Captain Joe Matsch. Chief Timothy Scranton's Fire Chief Badge. Mitch Dawson .Judie Fenton Jeanne Reynolds Brian Rosenstein and Lillian Raffel Beverly Hills Fire Chief Timothy Scranton and Beverly Hills Police Chief Dave Snowden Beverly Hills Police Chief Dave Snowden Fire Chief Timothy Scranton and Michael Liongson Michael Liongson and Capt. Joe Matsch Jim Ply, Capt. Joe Matsch, Chief Tim Scranton and Reggie Sully. Amalfi stone masons with the first granite paver. Special message on the paver. Crews setting one of the final granite stone pavers. Chief Timothy Scranton, Brad Burlingame discussing the 9/11 Memorial Garden Chief Timothy Scranton, Brad Burlingame, Laura Diaz of CBS Los Angeles. Interview on site with Chief Timothy Scranton, Brad Burlingame, Laura Diaz of CBS Los Angeles filming her segment, airing, September 11, 2011 at 6:30P.M. Stone engraving crew getting Donor Wall ready for final sand blasting of names. Chief Timothy Scranton viewing the wall inscriptions. Amalfi stone masons taking a break and reading the Beverly Hills Courier. Chief Timothy Scranton and Amalfi stone masons. 9/11 Exhibit poster at the Beverly Hills Public Library. 9/11 Exhibit poster at the Beverly Hills Public Library. 9/11 Exhibit at the Beverly Hills Public Library. 9/11 Exhibit at the Beverly Hills Public Library. Twin Tower sculpture at Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden. Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden. Art file for the Challenge Coin. Beverly Hills Memorial Garden Challenge coin.