June 5:

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Great update(s) today someMidTowner! Thanks.
 
someMidTowner, I assume that the 117 peter street and queen/richmond pics are from the drone?
 
Not this time! All the shots I posted today are from the roof of Pinnacle on Adelaide
 
Tableau is coming along quickly now. Check out how much it has grown in the last week since UD's pics above in our front page story.
 
Any idea why the scaffolding is still up? It looks more fragile the longer it stays up.
 
Quite a transformation along that stretch of Richmond in just the last year. It's really got that muscular-big-city look in urbandreamer's first photo.
 
Any idea why the scaffolding is still up? It looks more fragile the longer it stays up.

The scaffold is no longer supporting any of the concrete load, the large beams (11 feet deep +/-) and the transfer slabs (7 feet deep +/-) are post tensioned beams and slabs and are taking all the load of the tower above. (you can actually see the post tensioning tendons hanging out of the transfer beams and slabs in urbandreamer july 20th pics)

The scaffolding remains as a working area for worker access and post tensioning equipment as the large beams need to be post-tensioned at different stages of the construction (after the 5th floor is 75% strength of its 28 day design strength, and after a certain floor is poured and the 5th floor beams reach 100% of design strength, around 20th floor or something around there). We will see that scaffolding dismantled once this post-tensioning sequence has been completed.
 
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Thanks danwaring.

Looking forward to the impact the sight of the colonnade will make at this intersection.
 
Thanks danwaring.

Looking forward to the impact the sight of the colonnade will make at this intersection.

No problem, I too am looking forward the how the colonnade and the "table" like shape will look once the scaffolding is completely removed and you see just the concrete structure. Also how this will look in contrast to the queen/richmond which also has a sort of suspended look with the tall "X" steel columns.

But it looks like we have another 10 or more floors to go on the tower before we get to witness that. Until then we get to continue looking at the forest of scaffolding/shoring frames and stability tubing.
 
Pics taken August 10, 2014


Looking good!

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