900 King St W | 25 fl | U/C

[CuilTard]

June 15 Front

and back 


Interesting wooden porch they have built on the Pine side.

[ac3r]

I wonder if any of the retail units have been designed in a way to accommodate a restaurant. If someone opened up a quick take out place, they'd do great business with the apartments, KCI and most importantly the hospital. It's just close enough that visitors and staff could grab lunch or dinner without having to waste half their break walking there. The area doesn't have too many options for that as Belmont is a little bit too far for it to be useful to anyone at GRH.

[ZEBuilder]

June 15 Front

and back 


Interesting wooden porch they have built on the Pine side.

That porch is the access to the construction elevator, if you look at the top of the third floor where the plywood ends you can see the top of the support column for it.

[Square]

June 15 Front

and back 


Interesting wooden porch they have built on the Pine side.

So is this one going to use precast?  Looked like forms before, now looks like precast.

[Rainrider22]

My guess is it is for the service elevator once it is erected

[KevinL]

So is this one going to use precast?  Looked like forms before, now looks like precast.

Looks like the first two floors (the podium) were formed, and then it's precast above.

[K.P.]

My guess is it is for the service elevator once it is erected

95% sure the wood walls are a requirement to protect the hoist way for construction hoist. Same with the wooden overhang its to protect workers waiting for the hoist.

On a similar note to the TEK tower discussion, the tower crane and the hoist always creates a small problem, GC/concrete contractor have to pick between the lesser of two evils.
On this project, looks like they will have to infill the first two cast in place floors where the hoist location is, otherwise it wont align with the tower.