(04-03-2019, 04:30 PM)tomh009 Wrote: [ -> ] (04-03-2019, 04:16 PM)Rainrider22 Wrote: [ -> ]Seems like an odd location for the elevators though.
Not odd if you want to have a view to the outside from the elevators (our office building has that as well). And it might be quite a nice ride given the planned height of the building!
Agreed. That would be great. We don't usually see that in condos around here. But it would be awesome.
That is most certainly the elevator pit. It holds buffer springs, hydraulics, pulleys, guide rails and other equipment. It looks unusually small for a building that is 39 floors, however, I am used to working on commercial projects so a residential one is perhaps a bit smaller and that is indeed what it will be.
(04-03-2019, 08:33 PM)ac3r Wrote: [ -> ]That is most certainly the elevator pit. It holds buffer springs, hydraulics, pulleys, guide rails and other equipment. It looks unusually small for a building that is 39 floors, however, I am used to working on commercial projects so a residential one is perhaps a bit smaller and that is indeed what it will be.
Isn't it located in the corner? I still think it's a pump. Looks like a pump room to me (very similar to The Cop Shop garage)
Are there floor plans floating around? That should help confirm the location of the elevator.
(04-04-2019, 09:11 AM)Spokes Wrote: [ -> ]Are there floor plans floating around? That should help confirm the location of the elevator.
http://www.dtkcondos.ca/dtk-condos-floor-plans/
They have small plans of the entire floor pictured beside each condo floor plan. Given the condos wrap around all the exterior walls, there are 4 boxes with "X"s in them that appear to be the elevator shafts in the middle of the building. Looks like 3 main shafts together, with maybe a single service elevator across the hall?
(04-04-2019, 11:22 AM)JJTL Wrote: [ -> ] (04-04-2019, 09:11 AM)Spokes Wrote: [ -> ]Are there floor plans floating around? That should help confirm the location of the elevator.
http://www.dtkcondos.ca/dtk-condos-floor-plans/
They have small plans of the entire floor pictured beside each condo floor plan. Given the condos wrap around all the exterior walls, there are 4 boxes with "X"s in them that appear to be the elevator shafts in the middle of the building. Looks like 3 main shafts together, with maybe a single service elevator across the hall?
Judging by the plans, this is correct, then. In CAD drawings, an X will be used to mark an elevator shaft (as well as other utilitarian spaces, but most commonly an elevator).
Hard to say what this pit may be for in that case. It may be for a pump or some other sort of machinery. It just looks exactly the same as the way an elevator pit is made (example:
https://imgur.com/a/fo8pdIj).
The podium and sub-floors could well have a different layout than the main residential floors, with the one elevator going all the way to the bottom tucked in there.
Since we haven't seen any sign of it elsewhere I'm thinking it is the crane base.
2019-04-05
Today workers started to put up some siding around the rebar. They also started to put up some aluminium/foil like material for some purpose. On the second pic I noticed a depression right behind the worker. That is almost in the middle of the site. Could that be the base for the elevator shaft? Perhaps it's for the base of the crane.
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Is there still an actual pit? To me it looks like the rebar completely fills the pit, meaning it’s just a place where the concrete is thicker. Which in turn suggests crane base to me. But I can’t see it that clearly.
Also, related question, do I assume correctly that they have been using truck-mounted cranes to lower the rebar into the site and move other items? In projects I can recall monitoring, the crane base has been poured as a separate concrete square before much else has been done.
(04-05-2019, 03:21 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: [ -> ]Is there still an actual pit? To me it looks like the rebar completely fills the pit, meaning it’s just a place where the concrete is thicker. Which in turn suggests crane base to me. But I can’t see it that clearly.
Also, related question, do I assume correctly that they have been using truck-mounted cranes to lower the rebar into the site and move other items? In projects I can recall monitoring, the crane base has been poured as a separate concrete square before much else has been done.
Yes, a truck-mounted crane has been on-site since the rebar arrived. I find it fascinating the way the workers move around all that rebar.
Lol, now I'm wondering if the closure this Tuesday is for concrete pour.
2019-04-08
Lots of workers on site this morning. They're working on multiple levels of the rebar. It looks like they are creating 'rooms.' I say it 'looks like' because I have no idea what they are doing. Fascinating.
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That is going to bbe one heavy duty base. They probably need such a big base because of all the sand.
(04-08-2019, 12:41 PM)Rainrider22 Wrote: [ -> ]That is going to bbe one heavy duty base. They probably need such a big base because of all the sand.
I think it's answering my question of a while back about how you get a stable base for a tall tower built on sand -- build your own bedrock!