First Canadian Place - Toronto, Canada
First Canadian Place - Toronto, Canada
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TORONTO — The management of First Canadian Place, Canada's tallest skyscraper, was ordered yesterday to have the exterior of the building declared safe by its engineers after a large slab of marble fell off, leaving major arteries in Toronto's financial district paralyzed.
Jim Laughlin, the city's deputy building official, issued the company an order to remedy an unsafe condition, even though he said the company has been evaluating all the marble panels on the 72-storey tower over the last number of months.
“This particular one was something that they believe is an anomaly and ended up with some kind of fracture. And of course, once it's cracked, a couple days later, it comes loose,” Mr. Laughlin said. “The high winds, perhaps, or the weather last night, they believe to be the cause of it actually coming loose from its caulking.”
City officials and police say they want to be assured by First Canadian Place engineers that there will be no repeats of the frightening incident on Tuesday afternoon in which a 140-kilogram marble tile fell from the southwest corner of the 54th floor to the roof of the building's three-storey podium. The tile was about 18 inches by 36 inches, and an inch and a quarter thick.
from the Globe and Mail
Jim Laughlin, the city's deputy building official, issued the company an order to remedy an unsafe condition, even though he said the company has been evaluating all the marble panels on the 72-storey tower over the last number of months.
“This particular one was something that they believe is an anomaly and ended up with some kind of fracture. And of course, once it's cracked, a couple days later, it comes loose,” Mr. Laughlin said. “The high winds, perhaps, or the weather last night, they believe to be the cause of it actually coming loose from its caulking.”
City officials and police say they want to be assured by First Canadian Place engineers that there will be no repeats of the frightening incident on Tuesday afternoon in which a 140-kilogram marble tile fell from the southwest corner of the 54th floor to the roof of the building's three-storey podium. The tile was about 18 inches by 36 inches, and an inch and a quarter thick.
from the Globe and Mail






RE: First Canadian Place - Toronto, Canada
RE: First Canadian Place - Toronto, Canada
I'm glad it's not me having to sign that assurance.
RE: First Canadian Place - Toronto, Canada
RE: First Canadian Place - Toronto, Canada
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RE: First Canadian Place - Toronto, Canada
So caulking was holding up the panels? heh
RE: First Canadian Place - Toronto, Canada
So caulking was holding up the panels? heh
LOL
Very funny JAE. I was thinking the same thing.
Calif
The resisant virtues of the structure that we seek depend on their form; it is through their form that they are stable, not because of an awkward accumulation of material. There is nothing more noble and elegant from an intellectual viewpoint than this: to resist through form. Eladio Dieste
RE: First Canadian Place - Toronto, Canada
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