Erected true.
Finished clean.
A proposed company to erect and finish exposed structural steel and tower damping systems. While with a previous employer, the ironworkers it would be built around were the lead ironworkers on the damper at the top of Canada's first 100-storey tower.
Would be based in Toronto.
The proposed team's experience
SkyTower at Pinnacle One Yonge, Toronto. With a previous employer, before Kestrel.
Concept only. The people described here have not joined Kestrel, and these details have not been confirmed.
Canada's first 100-storey tower carries a tuned mass damper at its crown to calm the sway at the top. The lead ironworkers who erected, aligned and finished it, while working for a previous employer, would join Kestrel if it goes ahead. SkyTower was not a Kestrel project.
- Their role
- Lead ironworkers
- Scope
- Erection, alignment and finishing
- Employer at the time
- A previous employer, not Kestrel
What Kestrel would do
- Erection
- Exposed and feature steel set plumb, level and true: canopies, feature stairs, sculptural frames, and heavy components hoisted at height.
- Finishing
- Weld blending, grinding and polishing in place, so exposed steel reads as one clean piece once the scaffolding comes down.
- Damping systems
- Setting tuned mass dampers and their support steel, aligned to the designer's tolerances and coordinated with the designer's team on site.
How a job would run
Review
We go through the drawings, sequence and tolerances with the designer and GC before anything is lifted.
Plan
Rigging and lift plans, access and logistics, whether the work is at grade or 300 metres up.
Erect
Set, plumb and align, with bolted connections torqued and recorded as we go.
Finish
Blend, polish and touch up in place, then hand over with photos and records.
Who would run it
Kestrel would be run by working ironworkers. While with a previous employer, they were the lead ironworkers on SkyTower's damper, which was not a Kestrel project.
Concept only. The people described here have not joined Kestrel, and these details have not been confirmed.
Talk about the idea
This is a concept site, so the form is switched off. To talk about the idea, email hello@kestrelsteel.com.