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[VicHockeyFan]

The crane might be perfectly fine. The operator might just be tired or stressed. You won't know for sure unless you refrain from all construction activity for 3-6 months. And that includes looking at pictures of construction sites.

 

Is it possible though, that the crane operator (due to their position up there looking over the city, and at many, many attractive construction sites) is thinking of other, perhaps (in their wandering mind at least) more exciting sites often, so then when it comes to erecting on their own site, the drive is not there?

[jonny]

Well, they appear to be back at it. Must have taken some sort of a pill. Or a nap.

[aastra]

Working the same construction site can get boring, for sure. Why not try relocating the crane to the other side of the site? Or maybe spice things up a bit by changing the colour of the hoarding.

 

Mods, I'm not entirely comfortable with jonny's double entendre. This is supposed to be a family board.

[Bingo]

Working the same construction site can get boring, for sure. Why not try relocating the crane to the other side of the site? Or maybe spice things up a bit by changing the colour of the hoarding.

 

Mods, I'm not entirely comfortable with jonny's double entendre. This is supposed to be a family board.

 

The family is bored.

[Bingo]

Well, they appear to be back at it. Must have taken some sort of a pill. Or a nap.

 

Using more cladding and insulation as as they go up.

[Nparker]

It's important when erecting to always clad things properly. One doesn't want any little accidents.

[G-Man]

A little peekaboo shot of the Pandora office building.

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[Matt R.]

Wandered by last night, it was pretty cold out. Didn't see any crane, maybe the cold caused it to shrink a little?

Matt.

[HB]

Same Spot.different day.

 

1st photo taken Dec 1 2015

2nd photo Today

 

More to come.

[HB]

A few pics taken a couple days ago from the top of City Hall clock tower

 

In the photo of the excavation in the crosswalk the pile of wood is railroad ties. there are many miles of railroad track and ties still under the asphalt through out Victoria and Oak Bay and Esquimalt. When the street cars were finished the track was left in place and just covered.

 

Edited by HB, 14 January 2017 - 08:01 PM.

[jonny]

Damn, that's a beautiful sight HB!

[Nparker]

You can just start to see the beginning of the circular rotunda taking shape in the Douglas building. Although not visible in the above photos, supports for the 12th floor deck are starting to go up in the Pandora building and cladding is covering about 25% of the eastern facade.

[HB]

 

 

 

 

[RFS]

how close is this one to topped out?

[HB]

[jonny]

how close is this one to topped out?

Three more floors. Probably two or three weeks the way things have been going for.

[HB]

Here is a good shot of the core on grade and on level 11

 

 

 

 

[Nparker]

...Probably two or three weeks the way things have been going...

I'd say more like 4-6 weeks. It's been closer to 2 weeks for each new floor on the Pandora tower to emerge. Additional floors really slowed there as well since the Douglas "tower" started to emerge from the ground. The taller building has sat at 10 "completed" floors for over a month now. It wasn't until yesterday that I finally noticed the first support structures for the 12^th floor deck going up.

[nagel]

I would say even longer.  It's been at least 3 weeks a floor and there was a huge delay/slowdown over XMAS and the wind storm so if there's bad weather it could be longer.  There's probably also the mechanical level to pour no?

[HB]

Here are some photos of construction from this week.

Things are coming together at a good pace.

 

Edited by HB, 20 January 2017 - 07:46 PM.