Shangri-la is Flying

Picture taken by mark belcastro. Construction fly forming at Shangri-La Hotel in Toronto.

Using fly forming is a quick and efficient way to cast in place concrete floors without using post tensioning procedures and hollow core concrete slab plates. A complicated procedure using slip forms and concrete has a schedule in place for optimized scheduling. Your gant charts will be full. At this stage core drilling holes will be taking effect for Mechanical, electrical and plumbing. Xrays for steel rebar will be a tricky one. At Adamson I had 200 core drilling holes to be approved and using the BIM model was key for SI approvals to contractor. Make sure you cross your t's and dot your i's or else you will have swiss cheese.