Keywords: Looking west at the excavation of the new Globe and Mail building, 2014 08 25 (1).jpg Looking west at the excavation of the new Globe and Mail building 2014 08 25 1 https //www flickr com/photos/55289779 N00/14861173420/ Looking west at the excavation of the new Globe and Mail building 2014 08 25 1 2014-08-25 12 14 https //www flickr com/people/55289779 N00 booledozer https //ticket wikimedia org/otrs/index pl Action AgentTicketZoom TicketNumber Ticket 2012092210003274 OTRS ticket 2012092210003274 cc-by-sa-2 0 Leoboudv 2014-08-30 ImageNote 1 1303 290 180 113 1904 496 2 Funny nearby I-beams look similar to this distant mold for the concrete for a central core to the building ImageNoteEnd 1 ImageNote 2 1499 262 17 20 1904 496 2 The wall is studded with these tie-downs As the excavation progressed narrow diagonal holes were drilled down I think they were drilled dozen of meters -- maybe all the way to bedrock Cables were strung into these holes They help keep the walls from collapsing Vertical shafts almost a meter wide were dug to bedrock and I-beams were lowered into them These I-beams are about 5 metres apart They also hold the walls from collapsing The yellow coating was sprayed on One of the managers explained to me the foam was part of the building's waterproofing -- not for insulation One thing that surprises me as I tour sites like this is that the bedrock is a rather fragile looking shale or shale-like rock The lowest storey or two of this basement was dug into this shale-like bedrock ImageNoteEnd 2 ImageNote 3 1441 392 128 98 1904 496 2 Nearby I-beam ImageNoteEnd 3 ImageNote 4 1714 245 30 32 1904 496 2 Two or three years ago when this site was a parking lot I took a series of photos from the landing of this external metal stairway ImageNoteEnd 4 ImageNote 5 476 186 43 43 1904 496 2 The wall is studded with these tie-downs As the excavation progressed narrow diagonal holes were drilled down I think they were drilled dozen of meters -- maybe all the way to bedrock Cables were strung into these holes They help keep the walls from collapsing Vertical shafts almost a meter wide were dug to bedrock and I-beams were lowered into them These I-beams are about 5 metres apart They also hold the walls from collapsing The yellow coating was sprayed on One of the managers explained to me the foam was part of the building's waterproofing -- not for insulation One thing that surprises me as I tour sites like this is that the bedrock is a rather fragile looking shale or shale-like rock The lowest storey or two of this basement was dug into this shale-like bedrock ImageNoteEnd 5 2014 in Toronto Taken with Samsung Galaxy Trend Photographs by Geo Swan Panoramics of Toronto Construction of The Globe and Mail Centre on 2014 08 25 Construction excavations of The Globe and Mail Centre in 2014 |