Masonry Magazine August 1973 Page. 12
Loadbearing Gains Strength in Canada
Place in North Halifax. It will feature over 1,000 units of both low and high-rise, essentially in engineered load-bearing masonry.
With the loadbearing masonry wall system, the builder was able to complete a floor every 51% working days on the 13-story, 169,000 sq. ft. Forrest Green apartment building in Clayton Park, Nova Scotia.
Forrest Green, located in Clayton Park in Nova Scotia, has 36 two-bedroom apartments and 73 three-bedroom units in its tri-arc design. Its structural system, approved by the National Building Code of Canada, uses loadbearing 8x8x16-in. and 6x8x16-in. hollow hi-stress block throughout. The 3,500 p.s.i. hi-stress units were marked for easy identification by the 6-8 man crew of masonry craftsmen. The walls from the ground floor to the sixth floor were reinforced and grouted with the hi-lift grouting system. The floors are 4½-in. reinforced concrete two-way slab poured in place. The exterior end walls are of 65,000 4x4x12-in. Lantz Tweedtex Buff jumbo face-brick. Architects G. A. Lambros & Associates chose masonry for its economy, efficiency, appearance and flexibility.
The masonry materials arrived from the manufacturer's yard on a daily requirement basis. Both the block and brick were delivered on wooden pallets, then lifted and placed on the finished floor slab by a 5-ton tower crane. The masonry craftsmen laid the walls on approximately one-half the floor area and then moved on to the remaining half. As soon as the walls on the first half were up, the form work for the floor slab was started. The schedule of a floor every 51½ working days was achieved.
Like Forrest Green, Clayton Park Tower used load-bearing 8x8x16-in. and 6x8x16-in. hi-stress 3,500 p.s.i. masonry units throughout. For lower floors, 75% solid units were required with minimal grouting. Upper floors were hollow units on 4/½-in. reinforced concrete two-way floor slabs poured in place. The exterior walls are of 60,000 4x4x12-in. Glasgo Tweedtex Brown jumbo face-brick.
Clayton Park Tower, with its multi-sided polygon (round) shape, has 120 one-bedroom apartments. With a floor finished on an average of 5½ working days, the structure was completed in 55 working days.
Architects G. A. Lambros & Associates chose the load-bearing masonry system for the simple, repetitive floors with short spans, which enabled them to have maximum efficiency in both layout and construction.
CMCA Board Meeting In Fredericton
Pictured here enjoying a "lobster feast" luncheon are officers and dignitaries who attended the recent summer board meeting of the Canadian Masonry Contractors Association in Fredericton, N.B.
The meeting was hosted by the Atlantic Provinces Chapter of CMCA and held in conjunction with the Atlantic Trowel Trades Fair, an annual event conducted by the Atlantic Provinces Unit Masonry Council together with BM & PIU locals throughout the provinces of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The lobster feast was sponsored by Bird-Neill Ltd. of Fredericton and L.E. Shaw Ltd. of Halifax, both associate members of CMCA.
Shown seated from the left are P.L. Martini, secretary-treasurer, R.E. Beaupre, 1st vice president, and Frank Camisso, Jr., president of CMCA; J.W. Bird, Mayor of Fredericton: W. Neil Fraser, executive director of CMCA; The Honourable Richard Hatfield, Premier of the Province of New Brunswick; Albert Vincent, international representative, Atlantic Provinces, BM & PIU; and W.J. Young. 2nd vice president, and D. Maniago, 3rd vice president of CMCA.
In the picture below, The Honourable Richard Hatfield pokes a little fun at the bearded Al Vincent. One of the annual fun highlights of the Trowel Trades Fair is a contest in which many of the dignitaries try their hand at brick-laying. In this year's event. Vincent challenged CMCA president Frank Camisso to a heads-on bricklaying "duel." Camisso, however, had a sore arm and couldn't participate. But ably filling in for him was Eugene George, CMCA past-president and an MCAA vice president, who proved that he has not forgotten how to handle a trowel and won the competition hands-down.
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.