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Tuesday Closing the Core in Tarps The beige tarps are covering 3 levels at a time, they slide each side into a channel in the glazing clips and risers. I think they've had enough of my spying and have decided to pull the blinds Pouring the floor on the northeast corner

Drippy Friday Westside Story: More steel posts going up, more metal decking going down. No Jump yet! A closer looks at the clips and risers being assembled for the window system arriving in the future, while a couple of engineers and their minions inspect the next floor that will be...

Midweek Special Safety Net Installation And Building the Eastern Wall

Pouring the Floor of the Core

BOOM! With the brilliant sunshine lighting the south face of the core, I noticed a whole row of 'clips' along the floor edge just above the floor that has the orange plastic half wall. There is one riser connecting two clips between the orange plastic and the floor above, additional mounts two...

Sunny Friday Westside Story: It's hard for me to get a clear shot of the concrete pump on top of the core any more but from the familiar sound, they were clearly pumping concrete this morning. We should get a lift soon. The lower section of the core presents two new floors of post and...

Well I guess we've been told ?

First March to Spring Westside Story: The crane lift and core lift are complete for this week A set of plastic tarps have begun to be attached to the first completed level of steel beams and metal decking, they have enclosed about half of this floor. These are heavy duty tarps, not just...

Uplifting Thursday Crane extension in progress Core lift in progress

Saturday Special Pumping Concrete and Lifting Crane

"Damn the torpedoes full steam ahead" Friday Westside Story: The new reduced core is up and running and ready for a brand new pour. In this lower section, a new set of steel risers have been installed waiting for their horizontal kissing cousins to become attached. The brackets for a...

Blow it up, I've always hated this corner, the blank walls and horrible sidewalks just kills the entire corner.

Mid-February Friday Westside Story: Work on the core continues as the interior forms have risen More steel has been delivered and is waiting on the exposed top floor waiting for installation Eastside Story: This photo at the same zoom is a matchup with the first two A closer look at...

First Set of Alterations are Free Sunday The jump-form is being reconfigured at present and although it appears to have jumped, they actually lowered the east facing forms with the 'CIBC Square' (white letters on black) forms to make subtractions and additions to the south end of the shortened...

Construction Notice Dear neighbours, Please be advised that our contractor will be undertaking work to dismantle part of the tower automatic climbing system formwork on Sunday, February 10th, between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm. This work is being scheduled as a result of past and predicted...

Bleak House Friday A lot of little improvements but only a small amount of progress during this cold bleak week. (all photos as the same zoom and taken within 10 sec, wink, wink, stitcher) Westside No Story Eastside No Story

After the Pour Tuesday They poured the next level of the core yesterday, and today they've removed the forms from the south end of the shortened core. You may notice they have attached new clips for the jump form.

Saturday Overtime The forming crew worked well into the night returning the forms to the shortened south end of the core. This looks like they may be ready to continue pouring concrete so it can rise once again, hallelujah!

Back to Work Friday Not much progress this week because of the cold. On Wednesday morning about 8:15 while I was waiting for the Bay bus a whole crew of workers were leaving the site. There must be a thing that you show for work, then have the construction heads determine that it's too cold...

Sunday Surprise, a few shots of the supporting columns for the colonnade with artist renderings or what it should look like when done (45 Bay Supporting Documents PDF Application Submission Ivanoe, Cambridge, Hines) A closer look at two of the recently installed columns All three columns...