Video documents Gardiner Expressway ramp demolition

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Ontario Construction News staff writer

Priestly Demolition Inc. (PDI) has released a video documenting the dismantling of Torontoโ€™s Gardiner Expressway Eastbound Ramp.

The new video includes drone footage, time-lapse video and project highlights of PDIโ€™s demolition and behind the scenes details about how the project plan was put together.

โ€œI think everyoneโ€™s excitement level is through the roof at the start of a job, but once you get into it everyone sort of calms down and settles into place and then . . . everyone gets really good with the flow,โ€ Brian Priestly, vice president of operations.

โ€œYou can break something down in a big hurry, but then youโ€™ve got to clean it up in a big hurry.โ€ ย The removal of the ramp is part of the City of Torontoโ€™s Gardiner Expressway Rehabilitation Plan and its Port Lands Flood Mitigation Protection project.

Priestly Demolition won a 2021 World Demolition Award at a summit in Chicago for the Debeers Victor Mine Demolition, a remote fly-in mine project located in the James Bay Lowlands of northern Ontario. The awards were presented at a summit in Chicago in October.

The site is located about 90 kilometres west of the coastal community of Attawapiskat First Nation, a remote location with no access roads and harsh weather required extensive planning and contingency plans.

A Hercules plane program was developed to fly in machines, equipment and materials to site and workers were flown in on weekly-chartered flights. Crews worked on two-week rotation shifts, seven days a week, 12 hours a day.

 

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