Toronto The Well | 174.03m | 46s | RioCan | Hariri Pontarini

[karledice]

Love the red bricks

 

[CanadianDriver]

Nov 29, 2021

Glazing lower floors in progress.

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Question to experts: Does glazing have to be done in the winter? Is it to do with the expansion/contraction of the material? TIA!

 

[Undead]

Question to experts: Does glazing have to be done in the winter? Is it to do with the expansion/contraction of the material? TIA!

No, construction of any kind is almost always preferable to be done during the spring, summer and early fall. But the timing doesn't always work out.

 

[whatever]

There's sometimes a push to enclose certain sections of a building before the winter, but it's usually not necessary. The bigger weather concerns for glazing are wind and moisture. It doesn't take a lot of wind to make hoisting dangerous, and any surfaces to be caulked need to be basically perfectly dry (so rain and frost are problematic). For small sections of caulking you can use heat guns or tiger torches to dry things out (depending on how it'll affect the surface finishes), but it's usually easier just to shut things down if there's a steady rain going on.

 

[karledice]

There's sometimes a push to enclose certain sections of a building before the winter, but it's usually not necessary. The bigger weather concerns for glazing are wind and moisture. It doesn't take a lot of wind to make hoisting dangerous, and any surfaces to be caulked need to be basically perfectly dry (so rain and frost are problematic). For small sections of caulking you can use heat guns or tiger torches to dry things out (depending on how it'll affect the surface finishes), but it's usually easier just to shut things down if there's a steady rain going on.

So knowledgeable

 

[Red Mars]

Dec 2, 2021

The Well Residential Three

 

[Red Mars]

Dec 2, 2021

Pics of the damage done to building from the recent fallen glass.

 

[kotsy]

All those panels were broken?? I thought it was 2-3.

 

[Lovestallthings]

Perhaps the broken ones had chips in them. I would imagine they would need to be replaced. Kind of like a car wind shield I guess.

 

[bilked]

 

[Red Mars]

Dec 2, 2021

Main canopy progress.

Studs/hooks for the south portion of the canopy installation.

Studs/hooks for the north portion of the canopy installation.

To the east.

 

[dodgeram]

Some kind of fire at the site? From Reddit this evening (not my photo):

 

[ushahid]

poor project is cursed.

 

[emphurent]

1 alarm fire (level 1 stands for working fire response, many units are specified being on hand) - Outside Storage facility (from the city's live feed) as of now.

Likely improper storage. Hopefully only minor damage. Weird amount of issues around this site lately, but being how complex it is I could see these issues popping up.

 

[Nic08]

Nasty little fire that took less than 3 minutes to become quite the fireball. Was put out in under 5 minutes by TFS, some glass panel damage. This could have been ugly, there were propane cylinders stored very close to the fire.