ptbotrmpfn
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They certainly are not wasting time. Going to change the area completely.
Toronto The Well | 174.03m | 46s | RioCan | Hariri Pontarini
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44 North
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Like all those excavators down there. Like a bunch of brontosauruses grazing.
I believe the dredged material only goes underwater in the cells, then is capped by clay, then largely covered with clean fill. I don't think there's enough fill on site to do this continued capping so I think they'll still be trucking in fill for some time. Not sure its source though. Pulverized construction waste like concrete/brick? Aggregate? Sand? It's gotta be coming from somewhere.
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innsertnamehere
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thanks. Really makes you realize the scale of the site. They may have excavated a huge area in just a few weeks, but they have hardly made a dent on the total excavation.
ProjectEnd
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I'm told there's +/- 500 dump trucks per day here.
maestro
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I guess there's some code that prevents attaching trailers to dump trucks in Toronto. You see them at every Albertan excavation site. Maybe they aren't as efficient as they look either.
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innsertnamehere
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They are in Ontario. Just not very practical on downtown streets. go out to suburban subdivision sites or rural aggregate pits and they are everywhere.
maestro
Senior Member
Makes sense. The Well does have a large staging area close to Lake Shore and the Gardiner. I see them used in downtown Calgary and Edmonton which is why I brought it up.
Mo York
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Any guess on when the Well Residences will go on sale?
Jasonzed
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RZ12
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Q1 2019
AHK
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Eight excavators still on site this morning, four of which were busy loading dump trucks - including one in the hole on the east side, which was working away on the pile of broken up rock that had been built up. One excavator, fitted with a drill type bit, was breaking up some large pieces of rock or concrete block at the west end of the site.
One interesting development - there is a rock drill now on site, the type which one typically sees on highway projects, where holes are being drilled into roadside rock formations to insert explosives. No explosion blanket covers are visible. My presumption is that the rock drill is just being used to help break the structural integrity of the shale, so it can be excavated more easily - even small controlled explosions would result in vibration damage to nearby structures and underground utility services. Here is a photo of the rock drill taken this morning.
One interesting development - there is a rock drill now on site, the type which one typically sees on highway projects, where holes are being drilled into roadside rock formations to insert explosives. No explosion blanket covers are visible. My presumption is that the rock drill is just being used to help break the structural integrity of the shale, so it can be excavated more easily - even small controlled explosions would result in vibration damage to nearby structures and underground utility services. Here is a photo of the rock drill taken this morning.
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Transportfan
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That side street with the houses is going to look very out of place when this is completed. The downtown core is expanding! Even Fort York is nearly in it now.
buildup
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Is everything being constructed together, condo, commercial, retail or in phases? Would love to see this done without pauses.
innsertnamehere
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The retail podium and offices are what are getting built right now from my understanding, but if sales are successful (which i am almost certain they will be), I believe the residential buildings are scheduled to go up immediately as well. If unit uptake is slow for whatever reason, construction staging may slow as well.