Expired joints, cracked pipes: new details emerge about leaky LRT tunnel at St-Laurent

After a series of incidents in which loose concrete fell from Ottawa’s St-Laurent LRT station last year, CBC News has learned more details about how the city is addressing chronic water infiltration in the former bus tunnel, including fixing leaky joints — some of which had passed their life expectancy. According to engineering reports, some of those […]

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Joints in a built-up beam

Q: My brother and I have worked together building many houses. He insists that we can let the joints in the layers of a built-up center beam fall between the supporting columns. I say that the joints have to fall over the support columns. Is he tugging on my hammer handle, or are midspan joints […]