Here's an interesting article about 432 Park Ave in New York, which features white cement facade panels. The article contains some info about how white portland cement is produced and about how difficult it can be to work with white portland cement vs. standard portland cement...
Oh you're referring to white portland cement - that's a special type of portland cement with some adjustments to the raw ingredients in the mix to whiten it. Typically portland cement is grey, not white. Portland cement is the common cementitious ingredient in basically all concrete...
Portland cement is the most common type of cement...it is not a specialty product. It's also gray, not white. Maybe you're thinking of some other ingredient?
I don’t have any precast design experience, but it appears the precast floor panels span between the exterior walls and those interior stud walls. At the North end of the building you can see they’ve only erected one line of the corridor wall where the panels are only spanning in that direction...
Someone should crowdfund a large billboard next to this site informing everyone that this mess belongs to Regency, including verbiage and contact info to effectively shame them.
It'll be nice to have a big open space for people to congregate outside of the arena. 2017 was a gongshow (and rather dangerous) with everyone packed-in along 104ave.
It doesn't appear that they had to pour new footings - just looks like they had to break up the slab where the legs are connecting below. My guess is they had cast-in the anchor bolts for the base plate connection when the parking structure was completed, and then covered them up anticipating...
Lots of calculus in statistics - may have to slay the dragon if you go into urban planning. But yeah, anyways, sounds like you've got things figured out. Right on
I doubt calculus is “too hard” for you. I feel like most people who say this don’t give themselves enough credit. It just requires practice! That said, I realize there are certain folks with learning disabilities, for whom math comes with immense challenges. But short of that, if you’re really...
Interesting, you see something similar in the verification procedure for structural bolted connections. Conventional practice for properly tightening large bolted connections involves making them snug tight, then painting them like this and proceeding to torque them further (anywhere from 1/2...
It would be interesting to know what the geotechnical conditions of this site permits with the LRT running underneath. I seem to recall that the angled Mayfair setback was driven by the LRT running below - with 107 units in each of these buildings it sounds like this iteration will be rather...
https://shapearchitecture.ca/projects/south-haven-cemetery/
Ah yes, from their website: looks to be a deep and consistent char on the exterior. Can't wait to see this one up close. Kinda speaks Coronation Pool to me.