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thewayneThe center was built in the 1960s using a new type of lightweight concrete. Sadly, they've learned that this concrete is a bit problematic and needs expensive remediation. While the roof is currently okay, there are concerns that come October, under heavy snow loads, there could be a catastrophic failure.
The center is to be moved to the Ontario Place site, the repairs to the roof will cost upwards of $40 million and will take up to two years. It's going to take four months to clear out the centre, and it is believed that no jobs will be lost but no guarantees that all jobs will be kept on-going.
But that isn't remotely the end of the story, oh no. The cost to do proper repairs to the centre? Upwards of $500 million! This concrete was used throughout, and it was learned that it has problems with moisture. Sadly, it seems that Canada occasionally has large amounts of moisture present.
But that isn't remotely the end of the story, oh no! It seems that Canada's favorite politician, Doug Ford, is interested in leveling the whole complex and giving it to a friend to build a spa! The company is both foreign and privately held. Further more, critics say that the Ford government have allowed the center's maintenance to be underfunded, aggravating its decline to bolster their argument that it should be torn down. And then what will we do with the land? Let's build a spa!
It's amazing that anyone with the name or any tenuous relation to the Ford family is allowed to hold office in Canada.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-science-centre-closing-roof-1.7242810
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/06/21/2058256/ontario-science-center-to-close-immediately-over-roof-collapse-risk
The center is to be moved to the Ontario Place site, the repairs to the roof will cost upwards of $40 million and will take up to two years. It's going to take four months to clear out the centre, and it is believed that no jobs will be lost but no guarantees that all jobs will be kept on-going.
But that isn't remotely the end of the story, oh no. The cost to do proper repairs to the centre? Upwards of $500 million! This concrete was used throughout, and it was learned that it has problems with moisture. Sadly, it seems that Canada occasionally has large amounts of moisture present.
But that isn't remotely the end of the story, oh no! It seems that Canada's favorite politician, Doug Ford, is interested in leveling the whole complex and giving it to a friend to build a spa! The company is both foreign and privately held. Further more, critics say that the Ford government have allowed the center's maintenance to be underfunded, aggravating its decline to bolster their argument that it should be torn down. And then what will we do with the land? Let's build a spa!
It's amazing that anyone with the name or any tenuous relation to the Ford family is allowed to hold office in Canada.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-science-centre-closing-roof-1.7242810
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/06/21/2058256/ontario-science-center-to-close-immediately-over-roof-collapse-risk
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Date: 2024-06-22 06:54 pm (UTC)It wasn't bad design, as such, it was "it turns out that our best understanding of this particular concrete was wrong".
It'd help if Dougie wasn't so nakedly against the existence of civil power and so completely a creature of a criminal enterprise, but the original error was an honest one. (And it's not like other governments haven't known about the problem and had opportunities to fix it.)
Of course, the original construction also obliterated a wetlands site and was not an ecological net win and the drainage has been a problem there are all along.
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Date: 2024-06-23 03:09 am (UTC)And from what I read, the place they want to move it to will have water exposure and drainage problems, too.
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Date: 2024-06-23 03:14 am (UTC)The place they're saying it will move to is also slated to be converted into condos.
Dougie has already tried twice and couldn't quite deal with the uproar but he's figured out that if he commits enough atrocities opposition gets diffused.
The point is to get rid of it. The provincial government is opposed to ALL government spending, on anything, ever. Exceptions can be made for direct fee-for-service but even there the premier is a zero-taxes antivaxer along with being a career criminal.