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This area will be for the elevator and the stairs that wrap around the elevator shaft. There will be two landings:  seven steps, landing, seven steps, landing, seven steps, enter next floor.

See in the photo how the back-fill concrete is going to flow both vertically and horizontally from end to end of the blocks. The rebar that runs thru all the blocks is visible. The blue you see is the styrofoam insulation inside the blocks. We have been stacking three courses and then pouring the backfill concrete. The rebar is tied together throughout.