{"id":4776,"date":"2016-10-21T13:58:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T18:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=4776"},"modified":"2016-10-21T13:58:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T18:58:13","slug":"the-ballet-of-building-the-vmc-canopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2016\/10\/21\/the-ballet-of-building-the-vmc-canopy\/","title":{"rendered":"the ballet of building the VMC canopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bfgw8vMkQrk&amp;feature=youtu.be\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4782\" title=\"Vaughan Metropolitan Centre \u2013 Spadina Subway Station\" src=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Oct21_blog_H2_Video.jpg\" alt=\"Vaughan Metropolitan Centre \u2013 Spadina Subway Station\" width=\"500\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Oct21_blog_H2_Video.jpg 500w, https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Oct21_blog_H2_Video-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The giant sections of structural steel canopy were installed this fall in the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre [VMC] area \u2013 right in the middle of Highway 7 West \u2013 and it was a ballet of precision.<\/p>\n<p>Having a large structure like this arise in the centre of a roadway is an incredibly unique construction event.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why we made sure we were out on the corridor watching and recording the action to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bfgw8vMkQrk&amp;feature=youtu.be\">share with all of you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The largest section lifted was 25,000 lbs \u2013 over 11,300 kg! You can <a href=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/14\/form-meets-function-where-viva-meets-the-subway\/\">read more about this new Vivastation<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bfgw8vMkQrk&amp;feature=youtu.be\">check out the video<\/a> to see how this feat was done.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Questions or comments? Comment below or email us at <a href=\"mailto:contactus@vivanext.com\">contactus@vivanext.com<\/a>. To stay up-to-date on construction, sign up for email updates at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanext.com\/subscribe\/\">vivanext.com\/subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The giant sections of structural steel canopy were installed this fall in the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre [VMC] area \u2013 right in the middle of Highway 7 West \u2013 and it was a ballet of precision. Having a large structure like this arise in the centre of a roadway is an incredibly unique construction event. That&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[682,96,30,67,1,572],"tags":[8,943,114,34,45,48,175,872],"class_list":["post-4776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-construction","category-rapidways","category-stations","category-uncategorized","category-video-2","tag-connections","tag-construction","tag-highway-7","tag-rapidway","tag-subway","tag-vaughan","tag-vaughan-metropolitan-centre","tag-vmc-spadina-subway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4776"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4786,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions\/4786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}