Photos from June 2018
Jun 1, 2018: One of the roofers from Cascade working on the roof parapet.
Jun 1, 2018: The masonry workers working on the west wall.
Jun 1, 2018: The exterior walls for the storerooms and washrooms on the south side are finished.
Jun 1, 2018: The drain pipe (running from the top left corner towards the bottom right) will be connected to the drain hole (top right) in the middle of the ice shed roof.
Jun 1, 2018: More drain pipe running in the first floor ceiling.
Jun 1, 2018: Another truckload of steel stud arrived today; stud for the interior walls.
Jun 1, 2018: Hat track in place for the tops of the interior walls.
Jun 1, 2018: The first interior walls are going up - the upstairs washrooms.
Jun 1, 2018: The upstairs washrooms.
Jun 1, 2018: Cutting the steel studs to length.
Jun 4, 2018: Most of the masonry in the west wall of the ice shed is finished. One more section, then the elevator shaft upstairs and the interior wall along the far end of the ice shed to go.
Jun 4, 2018: Installing the connection brackets that will hold the steel joists for the roof over the rooms beside sheet one.
Jun 4, 2018: The gas fitter has been busy. Gas lines - marked with yellow banding - ready to hook up to Fortis.
Jun 4, 2018: Gas lines entering the building in the kitchen.
Jun 4, 2018: Gas lines, fire sprinkler pipes and plumbing all mixed together; makes it look pretty crowded.
Jun 4, 2018: The interior walls of the upstairs washrooms.
Jun 4, 2018: The northeast corner of the storeroom behind the bar.
Jun 4, 2018: Installing the steel studs above the upstairs viewing windows.
Jun 4, 2018: Drilling a hole in the upstairs floor for one of the plumbing lines.
Jun 6, 2018: The masonry workers are finished working on the east and west walls.
Jun 6, 2018: They are almost finished with the south walls too.
Jun 6, 2018: The steel joists for the rooms beside sheet one are in place, waiting for the Q-decking.
Jun 6, 2018: The openings for the glass behind the sheets on the first floor.
Jun 6, 2018: Drilling more holes in the upstairs floor for the plumbing.
Jun 6, 2018: Closet flanges in the upstairs washrooms, waiting for toilets.
Jun 6, 2018: The walls for the bar.
Jun 8, 2018: Working on the perimeter of the roof in the pouring rain.
Jun 8, 2018: The ducting for the HVAC along the east side of the ice shed.
Jun 8, 2018: Sealing the joints on the ducting.
Jun 8, 2018: Straps hanging along the south side of the ice shed waiting for more HVAC ducting.
Jun 8, 2018: The view from the far end of sheet two. We can start to see where the doors into the ice shed are going to be.
Jun 8, 2018: The header trench with the almost completed wall for the storerooms and washrooms at the far end.
Jun 8, 2018: The steel joists for the mechanical room are in place.
Jun 8, 2018: The view of the steel joists from the second floor.
Jun 8, 2018: The masonry workers have been busy building the elevator shaft on the second floor.
Jun 8, 2018: Some of the ducting for the HVAC system on the second floor.
Jun 8, 2018: HVAC ducting installed on the second floor.
Jun 11, 2018: Bruce, Ryan Mulligan from the city (far right), the onsite plumber (far left) and the consultants from Russell Hendrix Foodservice Equipment meeting about the kitchen/bar design.
Jun 11, 2018: Prepping the ground for the walkways in the ice shed.
Jun 11, 2018: Prepping the ground for the walkways in the ice shed.
Jun 13, 2018: Prepping the ground for the center walkway on a rainy day.
Jun 13, 2018: They can't hook up the roof drains since they are still installing the roof. Until that is finished, the rain pours through the drain holes onto the ground below.
Jun 13, 2018: It's raining so hard they have to pump the water out of the ice shed.
Jun 13, 2018: It looks like some of the walkways are ready for forms.
Jun 13, 2018: Wood framing around the window openings looking out into the ice area from the first floor.
Jun 13, 2018: More HVAC ducting in place on the second floor.
Jun 13, 2018: The railings on the deck have been finished to their final height.
Jun 13, 2018: The elevator shaft has reached the roof joists.
Jun 13, 2018: More inner walls are going up; the walls around the main stairwell heading up to the second floor.
Jun 13, 2018: Another view of the ice shed. The Q-deck is in place on top of the far storerooms and washrooms.
Jun 14, 2018: Forms for the walkway along sheet eight.
Jun 14, 2018: Forms for the walkway along the home end.
Jun 14, 2018: Forms for the center walkway.
Jun 14, 2018: Looking at the forms from the second floor.
Jun 14, 2018: Another interior wall on the second floor - the wall around the stairway by the west wall.
Jun 14, 2018: Starting on the interior walls on the first floor - the wall around the main stairway.
Jun 14, 2018: Starting on the interior walls on the first floor - the wall around the fire escape on the north wall.
Jun 14, 2018: The plumber installing the drain in the first floor ceiling for the upstairs washrooms.
Jun 14, 2018: They are starting to install electrical and data port boxes on the second floor.
Jun 14, 2018: A junction box for the electrical wiring in the second floor ceiling.
Jun 14, 2018: Circuit boxes on the second floor.
Jun 15, 2018: Cable tray sections waiting to be installed in the ceilings. The trays will hold a lot of the TV, data and security cables.
Jun 15, 2018: The last piece of the HVAC outflow ducting is in place.
Jun 15, 2018: The Q-deck is in place over the rooms beside sheet one.
Jun 15, 2018: Pallets of insulation waiting to be installed on the walls.
Jun 15, 2018: One of the storerooms at the back of the building.
Jun 15, 2018: An ice-melt pit in the back storeroom where James can dump all the snow that accumulates when he scrapes.
Jun 18, 2018: Some of the Kingspan wall panels arrived today. More to come.
Jun 18, 2018: Some of the cable trays are in place in the second floor.
Jun 18, 2018: The walls around the deck.
Jun 18, 2018: The wall between the upstairs washrooms is going up.
Jun 18, 2018: The plumbing pipes under the upstairs washrooms.
Jun 18, 2018: Fire insulation waiting to be applied to the ceiling on the first floor.
Jun 18, 2018: The fire insulation is dumped into a hopper on top of the sprayer pump.
Jun 18, 2018: Spraying the fire insulation under the deck.
Jun 18, 2018: Vapour barrier and rebar in place for the home end walkway. They hope to pour the walkways on Wednesday.
Jun 18, 2018: Installing the rebar for the walkway beside sheet one.
Jun 18, 2018: The roofers are about half done with the final layers on the roof. This allowed them to hook up one of the roof drains. The other two should be hooked up within a couple of days, so no more waterfalls in the ice area.
Jun 18, 2018: The intake for the HVAC in the ice shed on the right. The outflow ducting, on the left, wraps around the back and sides of the ice shed.
Jun 19, 2018: They are worried about the fire insulation spray getting out into the ice shed when they pour the walkways tomorrow. The netting will keep it from getting out.
Jun 19, 2018: The second roof drain, in the middle of the ice shde, is hooked up.
Jun 19, 2018: They must be making good progress on the roof because the third roof drain is also hooked up.
Jun 19, 2018: The masonry workers are almost finished with the elevator. That's the last job they have to do on the building.
Jun 19, 2018: HVAC ducting in the upstairs viewing area.
Jun 19, 2018: A pile of five Kingspan wall panels waiting to be mounted above the cinder block walls. They are about 5" thick, most of it is insulation surrounded by two thin layers of steel.
Jun 19, 2018: Installing the shelf angle to the outside cinder block walls.
Jun 19, 2018: There will be about a 6" layer of insulation on the walls, then a layer of brick veneer, which rests on the shelf angle.
Jun 20, 2018: They are pouring the cement for most of the walkways in the ice shed today.
Jun 20, 2018: Troweling the walkway beside sheet eight.
Jun 20, 2018: The ten foot walkway at the home end.
Jun 20, 2018: Getting ready to finish the walkway beside sheet eight with the power trowel.
Jun 20, 2018: Finishing the edge on the walkway.
Jun 20, 2018: The first, partial pour for the central walkway.
Jun 20, 2018: Using the power trowel on the walkway beside sheet eight.
Jun 20, 2018: Repositioning the cement pump truck to pour the walkways around sheets one through four.
Jun 20, 2018: The elevator shaft is finished.
Jun 20, 2018: The fire retardant spray on the steel joists in the first floor ceiling.
Jun 20, 2018: The underside of the stairs have been prepped for drywall.
Jun 22, 2018: Vapour barrier membrane on the outside of the cinder block walls. Next comes a 5" layer of insulation and a layer of brick veneer.
Jun 22, 2018: The Ladies Locker Room laid out and ready for framing.
Jun 22, 2018: The downstairs restrooms.
Jun 22, 2018: Excavating the ice shed floor.
Jun 22, 2018: They have to dig down about 20" before they can start installing the components that make up the ice shed floor - sand, warming pipes, insulation, coolant pipes and cement.
Jun 22, 2018: Measuring the depth of the excavation.
Jun 22, 2018: They need to have access to both sides of the ice shed so they only poured part of the center walkway. They will pour the rest at a later date.
Jun 22, 2018: The trucks are lined up waiting to haul away the dirt.
Jun 22, 2018: They are still spraying fire retardent on the joists in the first floor ceiling.
Jun 25, 2018: Working on the wall for the meeting room. There aren't too many walls left upstairs that need to be framed up.
Jun 25, 2018: They have started framing the walls downstairs. This is the Ladies Locker Room.
Jun 25, 2018: The downstairs hallway with washrooms on the right and locker rooms on the left.
Jun 25, 2018: Installation of the downstairs HVAC ductwork has started.
Jun 25, 2018: Most of the excess dirt has been removed from the ice shed.
Jun 25, 2018: Before installing the sub-layers, they have to smooth the ground with the grater then compact it with the roller.
Jun 25, 2018: Installing the openings in the roof above the mechanical and compressor rooms.
Jun 25, 2018: Installing the first pieces of insulation for the exterior walls.
Jun 25, 2018: The first pieces of insulation between the wall and the shelf angle. Then some flashing, to be followed by more insulation, above the flashing, up to the top of the cinder block walls.
Jun 26, 2018: Construction of the ice pad has started with a layer of sand. The bottom set of pipes - "warm" pipes that will maintain a constant base temperature under the cement pad - will be laid soon.
Jun 26, 2018: An electrician is running wire to electrical boxes in the walls on the second floor.
Jun 26, 2018: More steel studs are going up for downstairs washrooms.
Jun 26, 2018: More flashing over the shelf angle along the south wall.
Jun 26, 2018: Vapour barrier wrapped over the shelf angle flashing on the west wall. Next, more insulation will go on the vapour barrier above the flashing.
Jun 26, 2018: Forms for a cement plinth in the mechanical room. They will raise equipment for the utilities off the floor.
Jun 26, 2018: Venting in the kitchen for the exhaust hoods.
Jun 26, 2018: The exhaust hood venting on the second floor heading form the kitchen up to the roof.
Jun 27, 2018: Framing up the doorways in the main entrance.
Jun 27, 2018: Building the openings for the service counters in the bar.
Jun 27, 2018: Installing insulation on the west wall.
Jun 28, 2018: Screwing DensGlass sheathing on to the exterior of the west wall. It will be covered by vapour barrier, insulation, then brick veneer.
Jun 28, 2018: Frames for five of the exterior doors have arrived. They should be installed by tomorrow.
Jun 28, 2018: The openings for the service counters in the bar.
Jun 28, 2018: The framing along the bottom of the glass in the upstairs viewing area.
Jun 28, 2018: The upstairs banquet room. Lots of space here.
Jun 28, 2018: Orange spray paint on the sand in the ice shed that marks off the spacing for the bottom set of pipes.
Jun 28, 2018: The bottom pipes will be kept in place by tying them to rows of rebar in the sand.
Jun 28, 2018: Two rolls of piping waiting to be installed.
Jun 28, 2018: More rolls of piping waiting outside.
Jun 29, 2018: The lower, warm pipes are laid out and waiting to be covered with more sand.
Jun 29, 2018: The warm pipes tied to rebar to keep them in place.
Jun 29, 2018: The warm pipes wind their way along the back end of the ice pad towards the compressor room.
Jun 29, 2018: The warm pipes heading into the compressor room.
Jun 29, 2018: The warm pipes in the compressor room. They will be pressure tested over the weekend.
Jun 29, 2018: Some of the compressor room equipment waiting to be installed.
Jun 29, 2018: Vapour barrier on the south side.
Jun 29, 2018: They are about halfway along the east wall with the vapour barrier.
Jun 29, 2018: Two of the door frames on the west side have been installed.
Jun 29, 2018: Supplies for the roof beside sheet one. Other than a couple of things to be done after the Kingspan walls go up, the main roof is finished.
Jun 29, 2018: So far the plumbers have been working on drains. They are now installing some of the water pipes.
