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Originally Posted by Ziobrop
I was told, by an architect friend working on the project, that with the exception of the Grafton street portion, the parking slabs were not being constructed to support the load of the concrete and pump trucks.
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This is interesting. Thanks for posting this information.
Looking at the floor plan below, I wonder if all of Grafton Street will be able to bear the load of concrete and pumper trucks? This will be directly over the Exhibition Hall and part of it will be column-free.
If the column-free section of the Exhibition Hall can bear the load of concrete trucks then the supporting structure of the roof (i.e. a section of Grafton Street) might have to be designed like a bridge. This makes me wonder if the retail sections on either side of Grafton Street will be steel frame construction that will be both the retail section walls and roof trusses for the column-free section of the Exhibition Hall? It will be very interesting to see the engineering design that goes into the Exhibition Hall and Ballroom sections because of the large column-free spans.
(the source for both images is
http://www.halifax2016.ca/ )
In the image below it appears as though the slanted Ballroom structural members might be steel(?)
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