Concrete Pour a Tightly Choreographed Affair

Massive pour at the Duffin Creek Pollution Control plant in Pickering, Ont. had to be completed in 22 hours. Concrete pour a tightly choreographed affair, some 363 truck loads, 3,259 cubic metres of concrete poured...

Duffin Creek Pollution Control plantIt may not have been the largest of its kind in Ontario, but even it wasn’t an almost round-the-clock non-stop concrete pour at the Duffin Creek Pollution Control Plant in Pickering went off without a hitch. It took 363 truck loads or 3,259 cubic metres of concrete from three different St. Marys CBM plants for the construction of a 2, 970 square-metre 1.1-metre thick slab for an incinerator, part of a $575-million Phase 3 expansion.