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** UPDATE: ** More time lapse vids & photos emerging this morning, I’ll keep posting them at the bottom of this blog post. *** One of our readers, Terri O., sent along this video (below) showing part of the Carling Avenue / Queensway bridge replacement. ...

The next best thing to watching massive engineering/construction projects in person is watching via webcam. The Ontario Ministry of Transportation has a web site with two live webcam shots of the bridge being replaced . ( Here’s a press release about what’s happening and various traffic disruptions this weekend. ...

The latest episode in our continuing series about Ottawa signs : [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/filnu.jpg) ** ** This is a sign on the window at Compact Music in the Glebe. They’re getting ready for a big construction project on Bank Street. Alistair Steele snapped this and graciously gave us permission to post it here. ...

Saw this notice in this week’s EMC newspaper: [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/IMG-20110506-00123.jpg) Somebody managed to “start, disconnect all safety features of an 80' Manlift to drive itself off the quarry edge falling 60 feet”. The construction equipment belonged to R.W. Tomlinson Ltd and they’re offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. ...

If you’re a fan of construction and heavy equipment, here’s an event you’ll want to check out on Saturday morning (Jan 8). Property development company Urban Capital is re-attaching the facade from the old Metropolitan Bible Church to the new Central condo building at Bank and Gladstone. ...

Big thanks to Kyle Smith of Kyle Smith Media , who gave us permission to publish some of the photos he snapped of the construction of the Algonquin College pedestrian bridge. Woodroffe Avenue was shut down all weekend so that the bridge – freshly from a factory in Quebec - could be lifted into place. ...

You know you live in an exciting city when a bridge construction project is being featured in the A major bridge construction in Ottawa project is being featured this week in the the Daily Commercial News and Construction Record publication: ...

** The lower south sides stands were demolished today at around 8:00am. The Ottawa Citizen reports : ** The early morning implosion at Frank Clair Stadium went exactly as planned, as the lower southside stands came down "nice and gracefully," ...