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Couple of things @bonk: Stantec is still one or two floors behind JW -- it is working on floor 23 whereas JW is on floor 25. The reason that Stantec is taller at this point than JW (by a fair margin) is that the floor-to-floor height of Stantec on standard office floors is much greater than the floor-to-floor height on standard hotel floors (Stantec app. 4 metres; JW app 3 metres). By the time Stantec gets to floor 30 (office floors and the point where transition slab kicks in) and JW to 30 (hotel/condo floors), Stantec will be about 12 metres taller than JW (with the same number of completed floors (JW will have lost its two-floor advantage through the transition slab on its own building). Even if Stantec is slowed by 4 weeks (which I doubt will be the case) it will still be ahead of JW as they both complete and compete with condo floors of equal height. Your third point is wrong -- as I have stated, the rate of height increase is much faster on Stantec (1 meter per floor) than is true for JW. JW's transition floor is 26/27; Stantec's is 30. Gentleman's bet: I believe that JW will never again take the height lead.