innsertnamehere
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Thankfully we didn't have to wait too long for it to disappear.
Hamilton 213 King Street West | 94.3m | 30s | Vrancor Development | ZO1
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jta5
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Interesting construction here that in my limited exposure I have not seen before. Can anyone more educated than me explain why they would install shoring beyond the actual footprint of the building? Why employ forms so close to the shoring when they could have simply dug the shoring a few feet further south and installed the concrete against it?
Also @Chris R. you will get your straight sidewalk after all. The building will come to the concrete not the steel, and so bump up against the south textured portion of the braille sidewalk, not past it.
Also @Chris R. you will get your straight sidewalk after all. The building will come to the concrete not the steel, and so bump up against the south textured portion of the braille sidewalk, not past it.
TheHonestMaple
Active Member
Crazy how different this intersection will look one year from now.
Chronamut
Active Member
Crazy how different it ALREADY looks..
Chris R.
Senior Member
Hallelujah. Straight sidewalks. Still not super pleased the city allowed this side of King St to be shut to pedestrians for like 2, potentially 3 years, but I'm glad that when it's done it will look really nice. I'm really hoping they install the trees asap in the spring and not in the typical "eventually
" way Hamilton does like 4 years later. That is an odd choice. I'm far from an expert on shoring, but it does seem like it would be more difficult because now the backfilled dirt needs to be compacted in multiple layers or else see settling. They may just fix it after the fact like they did when the soil around the Marquee settled, but being that this will be concrete I worry about the potential hazard that will be left for like a decade before it's fixed.
Chronamut
Active Member
You're starting to sound as grumpy as me LOLHallelujah. Straight sidewalks. Still not super pleased the city allowed this side of King St to be shut to pedestrians for like 2, potentially 3 years, but I'm glad that when it's done it will look really nice. I'm really hoping they install the trees asap in the spring and not in the typical "eventually
That is an odd choice. I'm far from an expert on shoring, but it does seem like it would be more difficult because now the backfilled dirt needs to be compacted in multiple layers or else see settling. They may just fix it after the fact like they did when the soil around the Marquee settled, but being that this will be concrete I worry about the potential hazard that will be left for like a decade before it's fixed.
Chris R.
Senior Member
I'd just like for developers and the city to actually maintain access to public space and complete work for things in a somewhat timely manner. It shouldn't have taken 4 years from completion of the William Thomas building to install trees, (and 2 years after completion for the sidewalk to be fixed and redone after being done shoddily the first time after construction was done).
It's just incredibly bothersome and inefficient.
This development and the McMaster one are starting to show that the city is doing a better job of ensuring that work is done in a timely manner after construction is complete. But the Platinum building still had holes where stonework should be for months, and the Marquee building still has unattached "no parking" signs years after the sidewalk and stones have been installed.
Chronamut
Active Member
Yeah the city really should keep on these things - I never liked the stone finish they did to the pillars of the william thomas building - it felt very kinda slapped on
Chris R.
Senior Member
Still working in finishing the second floor here:
akiraredacted
New Member
This site has been pretty active, I'm sure once the first few floors are done it'll shoot up no problem
TheHonestMaple
Active Member
I noticed this morning they were filling in that trench with soil.
Chris R.
Senior Member
Probably the earlier they do it, the better to start allowing the soil to settle before the sidewalk is repaired in like a year or two.
Chronamut
Active Member
It's crazy to think all of this has sorta gone up around the same time - it's weird to go back 10 years and see this property as just a buncha car plots and one federal type building and that one refurbished building..
Chris R.
Senior Member
Some form work put up for the third floor prior to the weekend and before the second floor is done:
Chronamut
Active Member
is there a gap between that wall (where the lease now sign is) and the new building or are they pouring directly onto it?