LNahid2000
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They are moving FAST! At this rate, my lake view will be gone in a couple of months 
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Torontovibe
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The tower looks much smaller than I thought it was going to be. This one is going to look tall and slim.
Redux
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They are moving FAST! At this rate, my lake view will be gone in a couple of months
You must be a Real Estate Ad writer... You are confusing "View of the Lake" with "Lake view" Hehehee
Seriously LNahid, start looking for the same unit in the building on a higher floor. Don't disappoint us!
Meanwhile, I got more up-close and personal with the ground level today.
New glass to check out in the following two:
Fly form being flown:
Okay, back to the retail. The space at the corner here is huge. The photos do not do it justice. Find the guardrails in the back of the third photo down. Those are, AFAIK, 42" or 3 1/2' or 1.1m high. That makes the space in there about 13m or 40' high, but who knows, we might lose a metre to a dropped ceiling.
Not so high, but still high at the south end, the concrete second floor is in place here.
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Meanwhile, I got more up-close and personal with the ground level today.
New glass to check out in the following two:
Fly form being flown:
Okay, back to the retail. The space at the corner here is huge. The photos do not do it justice. Find the guardrails in the back of the third photo down. Those are, AFAIK, 42" or 3 1/2' or 1.1m high. That makes the space in there about 13m or 40' high, but who knows, we might lose a metre to a dropped ceiling.
Not so high, but still high at the south end, the concrete second floor is in place here.
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steveve
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Don't think this has been posted yet, I found this vid on youtube. It's a bit boring, but shows a close up of the curved glass and how the workers install it:
[video=youtube;ZtXiAT9g7OA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtXiAT9g7OA[/video]
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtXiAT9g7OA
[video=youtube;ZtXiAT9g7OA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtXiAT9g7OA[/video]
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtXiAT9g7OA
Well, it's not going to win the Academy Award for editing. It looks like there's a fair bit of luck involved in getting those installed. Hooray for the happy ending!
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whatever
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No, there's a bit of skill involved, which the installers lack. Basic lesson from Curtainwall 101 is that you need to have the frames hanging plumb when you install them, or else it's physically impossible to get the interlocks to snap. You can see how they've rigged it that they're way off centre which in turn caused the frame to lean far forward which in turn led to seven grown men fumbling like a bunch of children to force the frame into position. But when you refuse to pay the going rate for labour that's the kind of work you get.
It drives me crazy because that's exactly the sort of thing that gets people hurt, too. It's just asking for someone to slip or get pinched or crushed or worse.
It drives me crazy because that's exactly the sort of thing that gets people hurt, too. It's just asking for someone to slip or get pinched or crushed or worse.
Which is sort of what I was getting at by indicating it seems luck was involved, as it certainly didn't look like a skilled group I hate to say.
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whatever
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It isn't a skilled group. Or a qualified group for that matter. And this is why this particular company's safety record is atrocious. Same clowns that pulled this one: http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/construction-worker-injured-by-falling-glass-1.946761
D-W
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The height of the columns are 11.5m (almost 38'). There will be a steel floor installed at the second floor in this area, you can see the red painted locations for the steel beam connectors on the columns, and the ones on the underside of 3rd floor for the steel hangers at the slab edge to hang the cantilevered steel beams at 2nd from the 3rd floor concrete beams above.
D-W
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They are moving FAST! At this rate, my lake view will be gone in a couple of months
They should move quick as almost the entire floor is covered with the truss panels that are already covered with plywood, this leaves very few and small areas to fill in between after landing the panels on the next floor. Enjoy your view of the lake while you still can... Also thanks for keeping the photo updates coming, the vantage point you have has been great.
D-W
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Original plans showed the second floor being completely concrete, similar to 3rd floor above, sometime early 2013 (April/May) the 2nd floor was revised to future installed steel framing floor, with concrete/composite steel deck on top to match 2nd floor beyond. There will be openings in this area for an escalator and small stair.
So, to be clear, I'm providing this close-up of some of the red paint, as some people might confuse the smoothed-off former steel joists for being the paint.
I'm looking forward to seeing the final layout here, and how large the mezzanine space will be where the floors connect with stair and escalators. We're getting something dramatic here.
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hawc
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Well looks like theyr'e doing about a floor every 1.5 weeks now that they're past the podium and have the forms built that they can slide in and out. .
Here's the footprint for the rest of the tower. May 22/14
Here's the footprint for the rest of the tower. May 22/14
D-W
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Nice shot hawc, first few floors will be a bit slow, won't know for sure the cycle time until they get going.
I noticed so far they have not installed the concrete pump, hoist elevator, or the self climbing elevator core, I'm interested to see when these will be installed (and if the self climbing core will be or not).