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Originally Posted by J.OT13
My understanding is that the entire parking is underground. Being near False Creek, and maybe in a location that was once water (I'm not 100% familiar with what areas are infill), would it not have a high risk of flooding?
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It's only parking underground - all the building’s mechanical room are several floors up. In the event of a flood, or a tsunami, the hospital will still be operational. On-site generators can run the entire hospital for 72 hours in the event of a large earthquake or other large-scale disaster. The building and surrounding roads are built to a very high seismic standard, and has been built five metres above the predicted year 2100 sea level rise.
That part of False Creek, although filled in for the railway yards that used to be there, was fairly shallow. The entire perimeter of the building (and the adjacent research building) were piled to below the lowest level of the parkade, and sealed, so below grade is effectively a waterproof box, (with drains). The excavation was deep enough to go below the bottom of the former Creek, so was into the same glacial material that most of the rest of the Downtown sits on.
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