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Building up the walls

Thursday, August 28, 2014
steel frames for walls going up at project site

Exterior and interior work is continuing during these final days of summer. The mechanical and electrical rough-ins are progressing in the former Laskin Library and the construction crew are pouring footings and foundation walls for the Jackman Law Building.

 

base of the construction pit with digger at work

 

Renaissance Rising

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

The new Spring/Summer 2014 issue of the Faculty of Law's Nexus magazine includes a photo spread of the new building construction, with photography by Gordon Hawkins.

Touring the pit: Part 3

Monday, August 4, 2014
Sean Ingram indicating where stairway to second floor will be in construction site

Senior Development Officer Sean Ingram indicates where the stairway to the second floor will be constructed. University of Toronto videographer, James Poremba, records this stage of construction for archival purposes.

 

One way to manage such a large renewal project is to keep various sections progressing without waiting for other stages to be completed. Here a temporary wall is going up to separate the construction developments between the Bora Laskin Law Library and the Crescent Wing of the new Jackman Law Building. The library will be able to close off sections to continue exterior work and commence interior mechanics.

Workers putting up temporary wall

 

close up of temporary wall going up

Below are second-floor views looking southwest along Queen's Park Crescent.

Second-floor view looking south west on Queen's Park

 Second-floor close up view looking south west on Queen's Park

 

Touring the pit: Part 2

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Six caissons are now in the ground, and the driller needs to excavate four more holes. Ten in total are required to support the cantilevered sections of the Jackman Law Building along the curve of Queen's Park and particularly on the south end of the design.

 

Close up of caisson driller bit

 

With crew members visible in the following shots, you can see how large the caisson driller really is.

Close up of caisson driller bit

 

 Looking down onto the caisson driller bit from second storey

 

The crane uses this piece of equipment to push down the caisson sleeve into this ground hole, which contributes to the vibrations felt across the site, not just in Flavelle House, but also in Falconer Hall.

Caisson sleeve being pushed down into ground hole

 

Touring the pit: Part 1

Monday, July 28, 2014
looking eastward to construction site pit

Looking eastward to Queen's Park from the construction pit of the Jackman Law Building.

 

If you've never had a chance to visit a contruction site in full activity, now might be a good time to request a tour of the Jackman Law Building renewal project. Webcams and photos simply can't do justice to the sheer enormity of machine sizes, the sense of efficient activity occurring in each section of the site, nor the range of skill sets on display. 

View the Nexus photo spread of a recent tour as well.

looking at two foundation walls, one from originall library, second from 1980s addition

Here's a close up of the historial foundations found during demoltion, one being the original foundation of the law library (on the left) butting up next to a foundational wall of the first renovation library project in the 1980s. Below is the framing for the new Tory Hall.

looking up to steel framing of what will be Tory Hall

 

looking up to steel framing of what will be Tory Hall

 

Now that's big: caisson sleeves on site

Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Large caisson driller and crane on site with caisson sleeves to be inserted

Take a look at these enormous caisson sleeves on the ground at the construction site. They will be dropped in the holes created by the (blue) caisson driller and filled to make the supports for the cantilevered Jackman Law Building. For context, you can see several members of the construction crew close to the caisson driller, just to its left--and just how small they appear in comparison to the sleeves.

Supports for the cantilevered section

Friday, July 18, 2014
Cranes at the construction site prepare supports for new building

This week's activity on the contruction site included the arrival of another crane (on the right) to help the caisson driller ready the supports for the south end of the building. The caisson driller will drop sleeves into the drilled holes as part of the support system for the cantilevered section of the Jackman Law Building. In the foreground, you can see the rebar and the sections of sleeve that will be dropped into the hole.

This will be Torys Hall

Friday, July 4, 2014
steel frame of library extension going up

It's exciting to see the new shape of the law library going up. Here the crew has extended the steel frame on the west face to finish defining the perimeter of what will be Tory Hall, and are working at finishing the southwest corner of the framing for the library extension.

 

steel framing of library extension

 

 

Photos: Sean Ingram

New library sections taking shape

Tuesday, June 24, 2014
View to Trinity College through steel framing

Here's a view of lovely Trinity College, our neighbour across Philosopher's Walk. You’re looking at and through the new expanded section of the law library to be named Tory Hall.

 

 

north side of the library, stripped of the outer envelope

View of north side of the library, stripped of the outer envelope and temporarily separated from Flavelle House, while the air conditioning is maintained to cool off the offices in the Flavelle attic.

 view of the north side of the building

Looking south from the Faculty of Music, you can see the steel frame for the expanded library section to the right, Tory Hall.

 

Photos: Gord Hawkins

Steel framing commences

Wednesday, June 11, 2014
steel frame installed on southwest corner of building

After demolishing the exterior to the ground, things are starting to look up. Here's the new steel frame for the extension of the library on the southwest corner.

 

Photo: Sean Ingram

 

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