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This student residence in Waterloo, Ontario, located at 345 King Street North,
is a newly-constructed fourteen-storey building leased
by Wilfrid Laurier University for the academic year
starting in September 2009. The building has
ninety-four apartment units in three-, four-, and
five-bedroom configurations that will house a total of
386 students in single rooms.
Prestressed Systems Inc. (PSI) supplied approximately
130,000 sq. ft. of eight-inch hollowcore floor and roof
planks, and precast stairs, for fourteen floors.
Jamesway’s own proprietary system of stay-in-place
formwork for casting walls
was used with great
success when combined with PSI's hollowcore
plank for floor and roof
systems.
The teamwork demonstrated by PSI and Jamesway for
delivery and installation of the stay-in-place
cast-in-place walls and hollowcore floor and roof
systems allowed for a fast-track construction schedule
of one floor (approximately 10,000 square feet) per
week.
"We chose precast/prestressed hollowcore floor and
roof systems due to the speed of installation and
immediate availability of working platforms for our
crews to build from. This product, provided by PSI,
allowed us to easily incorporate precast into our I.C.F.
wall system design. We were able to maintain the
fast-track schedule needed to get this building
constructed on time and within budget." - Steve Silva,
Jamesway Construction
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