Vogue Residences (née District Condos) | 21 + 14 fl | U/C

[jwilliamson]

   

   

[jwilliamson]

   
   
   

[jwilliamson]

More excavation this week.

   
   
   
   
   

[jwilliamson]

https://vandel.ca/projects/155-king-st.htm

The owner is now listed as Vogue Residences, and the height is only 21 floors.

Also there's a new render; the podium looks like it has a different finish.

[Rainrider22]

Hmmm.... no improvement by the looks of it. It should blend in nicely with the rest of Northdale student rentals...

[myfaceisonfire]

Hmmm.... no improvement by the looks of it.  It should blend in nicely with the rest of Northdale student rentals...

Definitely not digging the southern elevation.  Having to stare at that for years to come from uptown is not a terribly appealing thought.    That said, I don't find the rest to be terrible, certainly a step above the worst of northdale.

[jwilliamson]

There's now a concrete pad covering part of the base of this pit.

[jwilliamson]

They're digging up the ramp into the pit. Excavation should be done soon.

[jwilliamson]

[attachment=7161]

They had an accident here today. There were some guys there saying this is the second tip in a month for this company.

   

[ac3r]

Wow. Parking a cement truck - with the engine side at the front - on a hill, then extending the pump is dangerous. That's a lot of weight being put on the front.

[ijmorlan]

Wow. Parking a cement truck - with the engine side at the front - on a hill, then extending the pump is dangerous. That's a lot of weight being put on the front.

It’s an unusual tip-over. It looks to me like the outrigger actually broke, allowing it to topple. I’ve seen videos of cranes tipping over before and usually nothing breaks (well, at least not until something hits the ground) — the whole thing just tips up and over.

[Coke6pk]

The stabilizing jack (?) on the front passenger side [Toward where it has fallen] still looks level. My first thought was an issue with the vehicle, and not the balance.

Coke

[clasher]

There was a similar incident in BC that killed one worker, seems like there was a failure of the collar plate on the outrigger. Ultimately it doesn't seem anyone was held responsible for it.

I don't know if it was an outrigger failure in this one, or if it was just not following the reach charts that are posted in the truck, or if the truck wasn't properly levelled on the outriggers when it was setup. Looking at some of the reach charts for concrete pump trucks, they all show the end hose pointing down when the boom goes below the level of truck, so I guess if the boom was fully extended and someone swung the end hose out horizontally it might exceed the capacity when the concrete starts pumping, and combined with a truck setup out of level or on soft ground, it could be enough to cause a tip over.

When I got certified to operate a broderson crane (8t maximum capacity), most of the class was just explaining the load charts and driving it into our heads that you aren't to exceed the listed capacity, make sure you set the crane up on firm level ground and don't swing it over the front. If you don't have the capacity, get a bigger crane. Those small broderson cranes have computers that won't let you lift or swing over capacity without using an override switch to do so. I don't know if a concrete pumper has that same system.

[EdM]

My first thought was an issue with the vehicle, and not the balance.

Coke

Yeah, somewhere I saw it reported that the outrigger broke. Fortunately nobody was injured.

[mastermind]

My first thought was an issue with the vehicle, and not the balance.

Coke

Yeah, somewhere I saw it reported that the outrigger broke. Fortunately nobody was injured.

Imagine the job of removing this from site now.  It's full of hard concrete and ready to fall back down once the boom is separated from the truck...  And then it might not even drive anymore.