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Benito · Jul 29, 2023

Shots of the crane through the afternoon and this evening.

jer1961 · Jul 29, 2023

PART 2: Photos taken today, Friday (July 28). As seen above in Benito's post, the newest set of braces for the newly raised crane were installed today. Here is the street view.... Starting with several smaller pieces being craned up, then the installation of the first of the three attachment beams.

BloorMan · Jul 29, 2023

Great pictures from jer1961 & Benito. Here are a few taken earlier from our pool deck:

UtakataNoAnnex · Jul 29, 2023

...goodness, almost need to change the under garments looking at those workers installing that. >.<

Johnny Au · Jul 29, 2023

Part 3 of 3 taken on July 26, 2023:

Yonge side:

From Yonge and College/Carlton:

BloorMan · Jul 29, 2023

Curious. With all the crane bracing on the south side of the tower, how will they get the curtainwall completed?

khaldoon · Jul 29, 2023

BloorMan said:
Curious. With all the crane bracing on the south side of the tower, how will they get the curtainwall completed?

It is not just the bracing but also the construction hoists. If it is done in a way similar to other buildings, some sections of the south side have to to be done after the tower tops out and crane and hoists are removed.

whatever · Jul 29, 2023

Not sure if it's the case here, but sometimes they have un-glazed curtainwall frames for where the braces are, and they coordinate with the crane to temporarily reposition the brace, install the frame, then put the brace back through the frame.

That might be what they're doing here, since they installed right up to the hoist on the lower floors

UtakataNoAnnex · Jul 30, 2023

khaldoon said:
It is not just the bracing but also the construction hoists. If it is done in a way similar to other buildings, some sections of the south side have to to be done after the tower tops out and crane and hoists are removed.

Yep...they clad around it. And once those are removed, they patch it all up as though nothing was ever there.

thaivic · Jul 31, 2023

UrbanOzz · Jul 31, 2023

after seeing pics of all these workers on beams and cranes tethered, i'm curious if anyone actually slips and dangles? I know obviously if a worker unfortunately fell untethered, it would be all over the news. But i assume if they just slip and they dangle and get pulled back up, that wouldn't be on the news and nobody would hear about it. does that ever happen?