Federal Buildings Heating and Cooling Plant Renovations | U/C

[rocketphish]

Originally Posted by zzptichka

Are they fencing off the smoke stack? Booooo.

It's a future savings in fingerprint remover

[zzptichka]

Hopefully this glass railing can withstand some abuse.

[DTcrawler]

Originally Posted by zzptichka

Hopefully this glass railing can withstand some abuse.

Looks like those metal supports in between the glass panels will hold the actual railing, probably wood or stainless steel I'm guessing.

For a federal industrial plant, this project looks like it's going to provide quite the urban park as far as design and material choices go.

[J.OT13]

All I can think of are the finger prints.

[Ottawacurious]

I was thinking more about the graffiti and it being heavily scratched/etched.

[Ottawacurious]

I love they are doing it! Hoping for the best that it doesn't get wrecked.

[DTcrawler]

I think the fingerprint and vandalism concerns are just a testament to how unusual it feels to have premium finishes (incl. glass) here in Ottawa

Toronto, Vancouver and plenty of other cities with similar social issues seem to do just fine with glass finishes in public places.

[J.OT13]

From Pat on Rail Fans Canada Discord. First bit of the mesh visible on the lower right behind the tree.

[J.OT13]

From Harley on Skyrise.


https://skyrisecities.com/forum/threads/...energy-system-innovate-energy-bbb.37541/

[Davis137]

You know, I don't hate it...the rooftop gardens/park are a nice improvement over what was there before, and I am sure they did this project this way in the event that future redevelopment of Tunney's for mixed use comes to fruition...

[DTcrawler]

I know it's more nuanced than what I'm about to say, but it's sad that this industrial plant looks much nicer than most of our transit stations. Especially when you consider the landscaping.

[OTownandDown]

Originally Posted by DTcrawler

I know it's more nuanced than what I'm about to say, but it's sad that this industrial plant looks much nicer than most of our transit stations. Especially when you consider the landscaping.

These industrial plants cost almost the same amount, or are at least in the same order of magnitude cost. So I'd be sad if our taxes spent all that money and it wasn't nice.

Its that strange dichotomy of federal spending in Ottawa. Extremely premium for things of a certain category. And almost nothing elsewhere.

$1.5 billy for heating and cooling? No problem.
Transit for employees to get to a hot and cold workplace (a fair share to pay, approximately the same value)? WOAH, cool your jets there Sally. We can afford just a fraction.

$10-20 billy for a downtown workplace that's mint? Wow, let me sign the cheque.
A safe, intact bridge for workers to get there? OMG that's so expensive, no thanks. Lets just keep studying the issue so people think we care.

Office fitup so my PSPC drone's office isn't stinky with a flickering flourescent lightbulb? No thanks.
Custom brass and oak fittings for elected officials (what is it, $28M per MP's office?)? Sign me up!

And more recently: Paying property taxes to the City in which your employees live? No thanks! (lol, that's just conjecture from the Mayor, but still)

[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by OTownandDown

These industrial plants cost almost the same amount, or are at least in the same order of magnitude cost. So I'd be sad if our taxes spent all that money and it wasn't nice.

Its that strange dichotomy of federal spending in Ottawa. Extremely premium for things of a certain category. And almost nothing elsewhere.

$1.5 billy for heating and cooling? No problem.
Transit for employees to get to a hot and cold workplace (a fair share to pay, approximately the same value)? WOAH, cool your jets there Sally. We can afford just a fraction.

$10-20 billy for a downtown workplace that's mint? Wow, let me sign the cheque.
A safe, intact bridge for workers to get there? OMG that's so expensive, no thanks. Lets just keep studying the issue so people think we care.

Office fitup so my PSPC drone's office isn't stinky with a flickering flourescent lightbulb? No thanks.
Custom brass and oak fittings for elected officials (what is it, $28M per MP's office?)? Sign me up!

And more recently: Paying property taxes to the City in which your employees live? No thanks! (lol, that's just conjecture from the Mayor, but still)

Some good points. Don't forget; "Billions for private sector car battery plants that aren't getting built, sure why not!"

[zzptichka]

[OTownandDown]

My original impression was that the custom mesh fitting would simply be hung from the top to the bottom on a top and bottom frame.

This space frame doohickey on the bottom right is, um... intense. Is this going to fill the entire front of the building? And if so, who's going to fix it in 10 years when the connections fail? lol

I was hoping it would mimic the Marina Bay Sands Wind Arbor (look it up). Which is quite stunning in person.

[Spoonsy]

Here's a closer pic on the space frame doohickey I took from ground last week

Oct 20

https://i.imgur.com/86ozWCR.jpeg

[OTownandDown]

Originally Posted by Spoonsy

Here's a closer pic on the space frame doohickey I took from ground last week

Oct 20

https://i.imgur.com/86ozWCR.jpeg

Like, for instance, is that thing galvanized? Are there dissimilar metals? I see some silver and some black, so guessing its just painted steel tubes with (hopefully) stainless connections. So what happens when the paint fails, as it always does in these scenarios, and there's a big mesh hanging on the outside? Is the mesh aluminum? I dunno, I just don't see this going well for someone in like 10 years' time.

WE should have just done this, because it's the coolest thing I've ever seen in person:
https://youtu.be/XZxZSHukZpo

[Kitchissippi]

Screen material going up. Looks sort of wabi-sabi, it will be interesting to see the full effect when it's all up.

[SL123]

That's very shiny

[J.OT13]

Budget Frank Gehry