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Originally Posted by djh

Funny, 3 of us from this forum were down at SEFC yesterday - we probably all looked at each other and didn't know...

Did you notice that the building reaching grade directly to the far south-west of the site near the Cambie bridgehead (would could for crane 11, if we're counting) has huge wide piping coming out of the ground? Too wide for conventional plumbing. I have a feeling they are the pipes for geothermal heating.

The thought that went though my head was: if there's any sort of problems with those pipes, a) the whole building loses its primary heating, and b) a whole load of concrete will need to be drilled-out to repair the pipe, as they are part of the concrete pour of the building construction. If there's any low-grade earthquake, I can see broken geothermal pipes being a headache for strata councils in these 'green' buildings that are popping-up with this kind of innovative heating.

What was the material made of? What was the diameter of the pipes? How many were there? How were they distributed around the site??? I don't know if I could tell you if it's geothermal, but maybe if it's plumbing or something else.