Project Report: Toronto Office
Eric Lee

Snap shot from One Bryant Park, showing belt truss connection at the lower floors being erected at the beginning of this year. This typical joint after numerous design changes is finally in place. Cornell Erectors are progressing well with no apparent problems.

Detailing for the upper tower however has come to a due to lack of information for the 52nd floor and up. The new set of revised customer drawings received in early February did not help resolve the missing information, and more RFIs have been created. We expect this to be resolved shortly.

Clackamas Town Center, is a 2000 tons renovation and addition that was awarded to us from Fought & Co. in early February. Paul Ledsham and his crew are well underway on this project and expect to complete this job by mid June.

Don Shaver and his group have another new job with tight schedule from Hirschfeld, the North Texas Tollway Plaza Canopies, with rolled plate columns and curved pipe truss canopies and AESS finish requirements.

Ashmont Station for Newport Industrial Fabrication is completed and out for approval. Paul Ledsham’s Harvard Labs for Ocean Steel is scheduled to have all drawings out for approval by the end of March, 2006. Drawings for Tailing Thickening and Cyclone Station part of Cerro Verde for Schuff are back from approval. Comments on Cyclone Station have been incorporated and drawings issued for shop. Unfortunately, due to the fast track nature of the project, the Tailing Thickening area has been revised at approval and some members affected are already fabricated. Field work drawings are being created and will go out shortly.

Despite the many challenges with the tight schedules we undertake, the cooperation of the fabricator and the engineer, helps alleviate the pressures we undergo leading to a successful conclusion of the work.