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home life<br />
LOOK UP …<br />
WAY UP<br />
From my waterfront Toronto condo, I can see 18 cranes<br />
and that’s a lot of building projects in my two kilometre<br />
sightline. But they are just 18 of the over 250 cranes<br />
around the GTA on over 260 highrise projects, each<br />
of them representing 300 to 500 jobs, according to the Building<br />
Industry and Land Developments Association (BILD).<br />
But watching all those cranes flying in the sky got me wondering<br />
how they work. I know what they do, but how do they keep rising<br />
as the building rises? And how do they get them down when the<br />
building is complete?<br />
My fascination with cranes was probably inspired by the tower<br />
crane operator at the 59-storey L Tower, Robert MacFarlane, who<br />
started bringing his camera to work and then tweeting spectacular<br />
pictures from his perch at Yonge Street and The Esplanade (you can<br />
find his pictures on Twitter @SkyJacked793).<br />
To help me figure it all out, I went to visit Marco Filice — senior<br />
vice president at Liberty Developments — at World on Yonge,<br />
the spectacularly successful mixed-use project on Yonge Street<br />
north of Steeles Avenue. We were joined by site manager Farzad<br />
Mohammadi, who patiently explained the mechanics and<br />
engineering of a crane lift to me.<br />
During construction of World on Yonge, Liberty had eight tower<br />
cranes operating while the four residential towers (31, 31, 27 and<br />
18 storeys), the 20-storey commercial tower, and the three-storey<br />
shopping centre were under construction.<br />
I learned from Mohammadi a crane can lift about 4,000 pounds<br />
(1,815 kilograms), is about six storeys tall and arrives on site in<br />
10 to 15 tractor-trailers. Now comes the tricky part (at least for<br />
me); how the crane climbs internally as the building rises. As the<br />
crane constructs the highrise around itself, about every 30 metres a<br />
hydraulic cylinder at its base elevates it through the hollow middle<br />
of the building. Workers then put steel beams underneath it and<br />
clamp it down and the crane begins building again.<br />
Getting the crane down is another story. I’ll be there in the spring<br />
to watch the crane come down from the top of Canada’s tallest<br />
residential building, Aura, Canderel Residential’s 78-storey condo<br />
project at Yonge and Gerrard.<br />
I can’t wait. Watch this space for a full report!<br />
<strong>HOMES</strong><br />
Celebrating Our 29th Year — Established 1985<br />
PUBLISHERS<br />
Publisher Michael Rosset<br />
Associate Publisher Cindy Lloyd<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
Editor Gale Beeby<br />
Contributing Editor Rise Levy<br />
DESIGN<br />
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PRODUCTION<br />
Production Manager Lisa Kelly<br />
Technical Production Managers<br />
Paul Baillargeon & David Kucharski<br />
ADMINISTRATION<br />
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Administrative Director Cynthia Leo<br />
Bookkeeper Suzanne Thorpe<br />
Credit Manager Frances Mangos<br />
Vice-President Business Development Josh Rosset<br />
Director of Distribution Nancy Frankel<br />
Web Manager Regina Gadacz<br />
Web Assistant Neisha Davis<br />
Receptionist Mary Armitage<br />
ADVERTISING SALES<br />
Senior Vice-President, Sales Hope McLarnon<br />
Vice-President Sales, Builder Division Leslie Rubin-Orlinski<br />
Vice-President Sales, Product Division Kathleen Kelly<br />
Director of Sales, Builder Division Heidi Lobel<br />
Retail Sales Manager Fay Splett<br />
Business Development Manager Ani Bogovic<br />
Senior Account Manager Tony Loria<br />
Account Managers Kim Barton & Madisyn McKee<br />
Director of Marketing/Media/Promotion Leanne Speers<br />
Client Services Manager Sonia Presotto<br />
Site Services Managers Paul Mogavero,<br />
Amanda Rogers & Renee Solowoniuk<br />
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