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  1. BFitzStructEng

    Falcon Towers | 170m | 44s | Langham Developments | Arc Studio

    Here's an interesting article about 432 Park Ave in New York, which features white cement facade panels. The article contains some info about how white portland cement is produced and about how difficult it can be to work with white portland cement vs. standard portland cement...
  2. BFitzStructEng

    Falcon Towers | 170m | 44s | Langham Developments | Arc Studio

    Oh you're referring to white portland cement - that's a special type of portland cement with some adjustments to the raw ingredients in the mix to whiten it. Typically portland cement is grey, not white. Portland cement is the common cementitious ingredient in basically all concrete...
  3. BFitzStructEng

    Falcon Towers | 170m | 44s | Langham Developments | Arc Studio

    Portland cement is the most common type of cement...it is not a specialty product. It's also gray, not white. Maybe you're thinking of some other ingredient?
  4. BFitzStructEng

    Oliver Crossing | 21m | 7s

    I don’t have any precast design experience, but it appears the precast floor panels span between the exterior walls and those interior stud walls. At the North end of the building you can see they’ve only erected one line of the corridor wall where the panels are only spanning in that direction...
  5. BFitzStructEng

    Substation #600 | ?m | 3s | Beljan Development | Hodgson Schilf Evans

    Beljan knocks it out of the damn park with each project. What a developer.
  6. BFitzStructEng

    West Block | 60.35m | 16s | Beaverbrook | GEC

    The commercial space is a glulam post and beam superstructure with GLT (glulam) floor plates
  7. BFitzStructEng

    Tower 101 | 175m | 50s | Regency Developments | DER + Associates

    Someone should crowdfund a large billboard next to this site informing everyone that this mess belongs to Regency, including verbiage and contact info to effectively shame them.
  8. BFitzStructEng

    Glenora Park | 81.99m | 22s | ONE Properties | Wallman Architects

    I feel like if any building is worthy of the name "The Hat", it's this one...
  9. BFitzStructEng

    Emerald Tower | 153.61m | 45s | Regency Developments | DER + Associates

    Correction: I believe this was dubbed "Lake Jasper" a couple years ago, was it not?
  10. BFitzStructEng

    Connect Centre | 56.3m | 16s | ONE Properties | DIALOG

    It'll be nice to have a big open space for people to congregate outside of the arena. 2017 was a gongshow (and rather dangerous) with everyone packed-in along 104ave.
  11. BFitzStructEng

    Connect Centre | 56.3m | 16s | ONE Properties | DIALOG

    So looking forward to watching the Oil in the 2022 playoffs on this big screen.
  12. BFitzStructEng

    Connect Centre | 56.3m | 16s | ONE Properties | DIALOG

    It doesn't appear that they had to pour new footings - just looks like they had to break up the slab where the legs are connecting below. My guess is they had cast-in the anchor bolts for the base plate connection when the parking structure was completed, and then covered them up anticipating...
  13. BFitzStructEng

    Valley Line LRT/ Valley Line West | ?m | ?s | City of Edmonton

    Seeing the words "Groat Bridge replaced" must be triggering for a LOT of people
  14. BFitzStructEng

    Valley Line LRT/ Valley Line West | ?m | ?s | City of Edmonton

    Lots of calculus in statistics - may have to slay the dragon if you go into urban planning. But yeah, anyways, sounds like you've got things figured out. Right on
  15. BFitzStructEng

    Valley Line LRT/ Valley Line West | ?m | ?s | City of Edmonton

    I doubt calculus is “too hard” for you. I feel like most people who say this don’t give themselves enough credit. It just requires practice! That said, I realize there are certain folks with learning disabilities, for whom math comes with immense challenges. But short of that, if you’re really...
  16. BFitzStructEng

    Valley Line LRT/ Valley Line West | ?m | ?s | City of Edmonton

    Interesting, you see something similar in the verification procedure for structural bolted connections. Conventional practice for properly tightening large bolted connections involves making them snug tight, then painting them like this and proceeding to torque them further (anywhere from 1/2...
  17. BFitzStructEng

    Stables at Mayfair | ?m | 34s | ProCura Real Estate | Manasc Isaac

    It would be interesting to know what the geotechnical conditions of this site permits with the LRT running underneath. I seem to recall that the angled Mayfair setback was driven by the LRT running below - with 107 units in each of these buildings it sounds like this iteration will be rather...
  18. BFitzStructEng

    Miscellaneous

    https://shapearchitecture.ca/projects/south-haven-cemetery/ Ah yes, from their website: looks to be a deep and consistent char on the exterior. Can't wait to see this one up close. Kinda speaks Coronation Pool to me.
  19. BFitzStructEng

    Miscellaneous

    Is that a Shu Sugi Ban treatment on the exterior? If so, looks well done.

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