Harbord Village Community Fair a success!

The Harbord Village Residents’ Association created another amazing gathering of neighbours on September 8 at Margaret Fairley Park.

Cementing Estonian future on Madison

As the Keskus International Estonian Centre build moves along at 11 Madison Ave the site is preparing for a major construction step forward. 

The extensive forming and maze of rebar installed over the summer is being prepared for a very large concrete pour in mid-September. Concrete pours must be continuous. The general contractor will start the pour at 7:00 am on the appointed day and keep pouring, rain or shine, well into the evening if necessary. 

According to the Keskus website “This will be the largest pour of the KESKUS project; estimated at 38 trucks of concrete. It is all the more an exciting milestone as it includes the floor of the KESKUS anchor tenant’s space, Northern Birch Credit Union.”

In a video posted to the their website at: https://www.estoniancentre.ca, one can see the steel tensioning cables threaded through the beams. Once the concrete has cured (likely by mid-October), the cables can be tensioned. 

In the video, the post-tensioning cables can be seen as they are threaded through the beams.  These cables will be tensioned once the beam’s concrete has reached full strength, currently anticipated for mid-October. Once the concrete mass is loaded from above the cables get tensioned once more.

In all 390 cubic metres of concrete will be poured in one day. This is all happening above Line 2 of the TTC.  Once the concrete is fully cured steel beams are installed to support the rest of the structure and a crane will be mounted on the engineered pad of the western half of the subway tunnel to complete the build.

—Brian Burchell/Gleaner News

Summer Music on Bloor