1867 Bloor Street, Toronto, ON

Project Profile

Concrete Balcony Repairs

Project Date: October 2005 – November 2006

Project Location: 1867 Bloor Street, Toronto, Ontario

Project Owner: El-Ad Group (Canada) Inc.; c/o Cogir Property Management Corporation , General Partnership

Project Engineers:

Project Consultants
Jacques Whitford
Mr. Trevor Gonsalves, P. Eng.
3430 South Service Road
Burlington, Ontario, L7N 3T9
Tel. 905-631-8684 ext 253 Fax. 905-631-8960

Project Consultants
Jacques Whitford
Mrs. Joanne Gonsalves, P. Eng.
3430 South Service Road
Burlington, Ontario, L7N 3T9
Tel. 905-631-8684 ext 265 Fax. 905-631-8960

Structural Reconstruction Design
TAK Engineering Ltd.
Mr. Tom M. Zeniuk, P. Eng.
340 Carlingview Drive
Toronto, Ontario,M9W 5G5
Tel. 416-798-2271 Fax. 416-798-2289

Structural Shoring and Rigging Design
Devlin Engineering Ltd.
Mr. Martin Devlin, P. Eng.
489 Timothy Street, Suite 5
Newmarket, ON L3Y 6M7
Tel. 905-895-9901 Fax. 905-895-0651

Forming Design  
Construction Control Inc.
Mr. Domenic Cugliari, P.Eng.
70 Haist Ave.
Woodbridge, Ontario, L4L 5V4
Tel. 905-856-5200 ext 258 Fax. 905-856-1455

Concrete Balcony Repairs

1867 Bloor Street East is 11-storey multi-unit residential building.
The floor slabs extend beyond the building envelope to form balcony slabs. The slabs are joist extended. The balconies vary in size ranging from 100 sq. ft. to 150 sq. ft. in size.  Metal balcony railings are provided at the outside edge of the balconies.
Due to the poor existing condition of the concrete forming part of the balcony slabs immediate balcony repairs were required.

Project Scope

The project started in October 2005 with the installation of hoarding and site protection.

The project involved:

• Total balcony slab replacement and localized through slab concrete repairs (approximately 10,850 sq. ft. - 70% of the existing balcony slabs).
• Complete balcony slab edge replacement.
• Total joist steel extension replacement ( approximately 65% of rusted joist extensions were replaced)
• Structural joist steel extension repairs (approximately 1,500 rusted joist extensions were re-welded with new structural steel).
• Installation of  new thin pedestrian waterproofing system to the balcony slabs.
• Painting of all balcony soffit surfaces by an architectural coating.
• New picket aluminum railing system was supplied and installed.