SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
I love how quickly this project gains height each time a set of super columns is installed!
They still have to build the support slab for the tower elevators, then it will start to rise quickly.This can go up relatively fast from this point on. The complex foundations and first floor are behind us. The super columns are pre-fab’d. Drop them in place, put up scaffolding and lay iron for the floor above, pour and move onto the next. A few floors a week?
47I think the time has come to start the annual contest - guess how many floors will this building have by December 31, 2021.
Since the building has got the permits and we are done with the below ground work, it might be easier to predict this time around.
Anyone knows if these new columns are only for the 2nd floor or for both the 2nd and 3rd floors? I know the top of the columns are almost flushed with the west elevator slab, which has reached the 4th floor, but that part of the building has lower ceiling height.
According to the plans, the floor that was just poured is actually Level 03, Restaurant (event space). The height of this level is 5.45 meters. The new super-column looks taller than Level 03 for sure, but I don't think it reaches the ceiling of Level 04. Level 04 is another 6 meters tall.Anyone knows if these new columns are only for the 2nd floor or for both the 2nd and 3rd floors? I know the top of the columns are almost flushed with the west elevator slab, which has reached the 4th floor, but that part of the building has lower ceiling height.
They are bolted together.I can tell from the photos of the super columns how the sections of the rebar cages of those columns are connected to each other. I see no evidence that the top plate of the bottom section is welded to the bottom plate of the section sitting on top of it. Are they bolted together or simply balancing one on top of the other and connected with the concrete fill? Looks like the weakest areas would be where the rebar column sections are connected to each other???