Daylight basement is awaiting footers...they say they are coming this week.  I was talking to some of my friends at school today and they were under the impression that there were codes against building a basement in Texas.  They had no idea what I was talking about when I told them we were building a daylight basement.  I know this is outside the norm here.  Our builders are being very thorough with the engineering.  It's taking a lot of time but I appreciate their attention to detail.