Edmonton Construction 5

[feepa]

Yes, Native Casino = Economic Slavation. You know, cause theres no other way to grow your economy. Hey, I don't like to stereotype, but this is just par for the record. Natives building casinos on reserves, who ever figured this would ever happen in Alberta is a all seeing gsypies.

[tony0911]

My only problem with your comment feepa is that people generally like to live fairly close to where they work. If you want people to live in the core they have to work in the core. Not many people can afford the downtown condos working retail and entertainment....the office jobs will bring the people to buy the condos not the entartainment and retail. People working the industrial and manufacturing jobs are not the type to live in the downtown core when they work out in the burbs.

[rapid_business]

/\ depends on what is in the core. Tell that to all the people in downtown Vancouver who head out to the suburbs each day for work, but return downtown to live, eat and play.

EDIT: And no, sadly people don't usually live where they work. Ideally they should, but don't. Talk to the people who live in Millwoods but work on 178th.

[murman]

Originally Posted by CMD UW

At this stage, don't take any of the renderings you've seen for face value. The end product will be much, much different.

D@mn, but you're authoritative in your response.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall. How 'bout a free tour of your office some day?

[murman]

Originally Posted by feepa

I think if anyone needs a re-fresh of all the stuff thats going on around here, take a look at the first page of this thread.

I think people take a look at Calgary too much, and figure we should be like that. I'm sorry, Edmonton is not Calgary. We are definately not the same type of working city as them.

I think people try to make this equation too often: # skyscrapers being built = economic thermometer of the city. This is truly not a city that can be judge by that at all.
I'm sure our industrial growth, in terms of dollars invested in the Edmonton region would put us ahead of Calgary in terms of growth.

However, in terms of investable industrial real estate, Calgary has plowed far ahead of Edmonton over the past few years. When, at one time, the cities were roughly neck and neck, Calgary now has +/- 100M s.f. and Edmonton's somewhere around 80M, off the top of my head...

[Coldrsx]

FYI - Icon has poured some of the main floor and there are 3 columns poured from main to 2nd.....WOOO ABOVE GROUND!

Cecil site - a couple of Clark's guys there again today.

[Coldrsx]

Originally Posted by murman

However, in terms of investable industrial real estate, Calgary has plowed far ahead of Edmonton over the past few years. When, at one time, the cities were roughly neck and neck, Calgary now has +/- 100M s.f. and Edmonton's somewhere around 80M, off the top of my head...

Greater Edmonton has more though if i recall.

[Coldrsx]

Permit: 63270987-001
To construct and operate a Public Education Services building (Lillian Osborne High School).
Location: 15204 - 23 AVENUE NW
SW-2-52-25-4 - LEGER
Applicant: COHOS EVAMY
Application Date: 12/13/2006

[murman]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

Greater Edmonton has more though if i recall.

You might be confusing "investable" light industrial real estate with owner-occupied medium and heavy industrial. Yes, Edmonton has more sprawling medium and heavy industry, but from a real estate investor's perspective what matters 99.9% of the time is light-industrial & warehousing, and Calgary's whupped Edmonton's fanny in that regard over the last ten or so years.

[Coldrsx]

Poetry festival part of city’s $3.3M culture (4:05 p.m.)
‘We can be the cultural capital in perpetuity’ — Mandel
Todd Babiak, edmontonjournal.com
Published: Monday, December 18, 2006
A year-long poetry festival will be be among $3.3 million worth of cultural initiatives as part of Edmonton’s designation as Cultural Capital of Canada.

With a $2 million contribution from the federal government, the city is building on its current strengths and reaching out to new artists and the community at large.

The theme for Edmonton’s year as Cultural Capital of Canada is “connections.”


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Font: ****The city’s cultural celebration include a celebration of poetry and the spoken word, a celebration of light, a cultural inventory, a grant program to encourage new artists and a cultural symposium.

Environment Minister Rona Ambrose joined Mayor Stephen Mandel and poet laureate Alice Major at City Hall today to officially announce the cultural designation.

“This was a competitive process, and Edmonton beat out a number of cities — including Montreal,” said Ambrose.

Mandel praised the city’s arts and cultural community, and the Edmonton Arts Council.

“We will do this award so proud that the the end of the year they might have to leave it with us,” Mandel said. “We can be the cultural capital in perpetuity.”

Ottawa will contribute $2 million to the city for its year of cultural growth and celebration. The total budget for planned initiatives is $3.3 million.

The projects include:

Nightworks - A city-wide celebration of light at the beginning and end of the year.
Edmonton Explorations - A grant program designed for new artists.
Cultural Inventory - A research project to identify and record Edmonton’s cultural assets.
Poetry Festival - A year-long celebration of poetry and the spoken word.
Cultural Symposia - A two-day ideas festival, capped with a performing arts gala, in partnership with the U of A and Grant MacEwan.

Culture writer Todd Babiak will have a full report on Edmonton’s year as cultural capital of Canada in Tuesday’s Journal.

[Coldrsx]

some awesome new robbins pics:

[Coldrsx]

and the latest report:

http://www.macewan.ca/web/services/ims/client/upload/Robbins_Report_Dec2006.pdf

[Coldrsx]

About the Centre


The 27,000-square-metre facility will provide classroom and laboratory space for MacEwan’s health sciences programs, allowing the college to accommodate up to 2,000 additional students at the City Centre Campus.

The Robbins Health Learning Centre will:

reinforce Edmonton and Alberta as major centres of health care learning, scholarly activity and program delivery across North America.
house MacEwan’s nationally renowned nursing program—one of the largest schools of its kind in Western Canada.
include a centre for continuing nursing education to serve the 25,000 practicing registered nurses in Alberta.
provide training and credentialing for nurses and health care professionals, both locally and internationally.
increase access to MacEwan’s programs in-house and through distance delivery, helping to address current and future shortages of health care workers.
enhance the architectural beautification of Edmonton and provide an economic stimulant to downtown.
MacEwan is committed to sustainable design, construction, and operational principles that will allow the building to meet high environmental standards in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. The centre’s design will incorporate flexible design principles, so that the building can be adapted to meet future requirements.


Location
The new centre is scheduled to open at the corner of 109 Street and 104 Avenue in downtown Edmonton in September 2007.

Construction
The college is using a design-build methodology to deliver the project. The college has used the design-build model on the new MacEwan student residence and the West Parkade expansion. This model encourages innovative and creative design and implementation solutions.

Funding
The Robbins Health Learning Centre is jointly funded by the Government of Alberta and the college through its capital campaign. MacEwan has raised over $11.8 million for the new building, including a $5 million donation from the Robbins Family Foundation.

Facts & Figures
Owner: Grant MacEwan College
Location: City Centre Campus, northeast corner of 104 Avenue and 109 Street in downtown Edmonton
Occupants: MacEwan’s School of Nursing, and other health-related programs
Occupancy: 2000 students (Full Learning Equivalents), and 300 faculty, administration and non-academic staff

Building Spaces: Classrooms, nursing labs, student study rooms, lounges and community space, faculty and administrative offices, food services, and building support
Underground Parkade: 121 parking stalls

Builder: Clark Builders
Architect: Kasian Architecture Interior Design & Planning Ltd.
Structural: Read Jones Christoffersen Consulting Engineers
Mechanical: Stantec Consulting
Electrical: Stantec Consulting
Landscape Architect: Carlyle + Associates
Information Technology: Bell

Gross Building Area: 27,270 m2 (293,210 ft2)

Parkade Level: 5,980 m2

Main Floor: 4,040 m2

2nd Floor: 5,030 m2

3rd Floor: 4,800 m2

4th Floor: 4,030 m2

5th Floor: 3,360 m2
Building Height: 5 storeys

Design Build Cost: $55,000,000

Construction Start: November 14, 2005
Construction Complete: July 2007
Open for Classes: September 2007
Sustainability: LEED Silver certification

[newfangled]

I like the way the renderings of the Robbins have a nice light feeling because of the pilotis. I'm going to have to take a walk past it again though, because whenever I drive by it the one feature that jumps out at me is the much larger tapered columns that are shown in the last rendering. They look so...dense. And they reinforce my main concern about the building, which is that it's not set back far enough from 104th compared to the surroundings.

Still, glazing = pretty.

Pilotis = pretty too.

[Coldrsx]

webcam for physics bldg boom

http://ccis.cs.ualberta.ca/

some cool interior pics

http://www.science.ualberta.ca//pdf/Drawings.pdf

[Coldrsx]

oh and some exterior images

http://www.science.ualberta.ca//pdf/ExteriorImages.pdf

[CMD UW]

Originally Posted by murman

You might be confusing "investable" light industrial real estate with owner-occupied medium and heavy industrial. Yes, Edmonton has more sprawling medium and heavy industry, but from a real estate investor's perspective what matters 99.9% of the time is light-industrial & warehousing, and Calgary's whupped Edmonton's fanny in that regard over the last ten or so years.

That's true, however, I am currently working on a number of projects that involve hundreds of thousands of light industrial / warehousing space to be located on the west and southside.

[Coldrsx]

http://www.highlevelcrossing.com/

another poor looking development in a great area...WOO

[murman]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

http://www.highlevelcrossing.com/

another poor looking development in a great area...WOO

Edmonton, this is nothing short of a F*CKING embarrassment.

I've seen nicer Super 8's. You really don't care about your city, do you?

Where's your vaunted design review committee? Too busy on a junket to Vegreville to study their take on 21st century architecture?

Will you PLEASE stop doing this to your city???????

[feepa]

Originally Posted by onishenko

/\ depends on what is in the core. Tell that to all the people in downtown Vancouver who head out to the suburbs each day for work, but return downtown to live, eat and play.

EDIT: And no, sadly people don't usually live where they work. Ideally they should, but don't. Talk to the people who live in Millwoods but work on 178th.

I agree with whats above. Too many times I've seen people complain about the commute they, but they must live at opposite ends of the city.
Live in Westend, work in Fort sask.. Believe it or not this happens.