[Surrey] 3 Civic Plaza | 164m | 48 fl | Completed - Page 39

officedweller · #**761** Posted **Feb 9, 2016, 9:58 PM**

The wood on the canopy looks nice.
Agreed that glass wouldn't be safe - just look at the number of sidewalk canopies that are smashed each year from items dropped from much lower heights.

Klazu · #**762** Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 1:35 AM**

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Some pics from this weekend:

Just curious why they left out the 7th floor? That's not a 'bad' number AFAIK and they have 4 in there.

Shift · #**763** Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 1:40 AM**

From tonight

Jebby · #**764** Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 2:48 AM**

The cladding so far is pretty damn mediocre.

Klazu · #**765** Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 3:51 AM**

It sure does, which is very unfortunate. Almost all new towers in Surrey will look the same, give or take a few floors.

Katherine S · #**766** Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 8:27 AM**

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The only big negative about covering the canopy in wood is the units underneath it are going to be very very dark.

I'm sure someone here has seen a few good photos of what cities have done with areas that have poor natural lighting. That being said, with the canopy being so high, I'm not too sure if that will be a major issue what with the ambient light able to enter from almost all other directions (I can imagine the morning summer sun will still provide more than adequate lighting under those tracks).

BCPhil · #**767** Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 9:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by Jebby

The only big negative about covering the canopy in wood is the units underneath it are going to be very very dark.

On the "bright" side, when you look up from the street, you won't be able to see the diapers splattered on it.

GMasterAres · #**768** Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 6:23 PM**

Yah I agree I don't think it will affect lighting much. It is a good 15-20 feet above the top of the SkyTrain tracks so you're talking a long way up. It will likely block less light than the tracks themselves.

CurtisVerbatim · #**769** Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 8:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by Klazu

It sure does, which is very unfortunate. Almost all new towers in Surrey will look the same, give or take a few floors.

hopefully the guitar pick shaped holes will separate this tower form the rest as there's not much else to differentiate it (other than height)

Shift · #**770** Posted **Feb 11, 2016, 7:53 PM**

Feb 11

go_leafs_go02 · #**771** Posted **Feb 11, 2016, 8:07 PM**

This building is massive, when you look at it from the east or the west.

CurtisVerbatim · #**772** Posted **Feb 11, 2016, 8:28 PM**

I met a n electrician yesterday who is working on 3 Civic. he seems to think the project will have 57 floors in total. I thought it was going to be 50

CurtisVerbatim · #**773** Posted **Feb 11, 2016, 11:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by Klazu

Just curious why they left out the 7th floor? That's not a 'bad' number AFAIK and they have 4 in there.

The guy I talked to yesterday said they skipped floors so that the man lift would stay true to the office/kwantlen floors on the other end of the building

Nites · #**774** Posted **Feb 13, 2016, 10:30 AM**

The excavation for Prime is moving along quite quickly I can see.

Whalleyboy · #**775** Posted **Feb 13, 2016, 10:30 AM**

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Feb 11

Surrey sure doesnt look like a suburban waste land with this shot lol

Pinion · #**776** Posted **Feb 13, 2016, 12:05 PM**

I thought you were making a joke until I saw who posted.

rokim99 · #**777** Posted **Feb 14, 2016, 4:06 PM**

Wow this buidling is so close to the skytrain tracks... Will noise be a concern for this building ? The reason I ask this ... is because I have friends that live In park place (near king george)... and they say they can still hear the noise.thoughts?

Spork · #**778** Posted **Feb 15, 2016, 5:54 AM**

I've lived right above the tracks above a station, and you get used to it just like you get used to road noise. In the winter it is not a problem, as insulation dulls the sound sufficiently. I currently live near some tracks (not by a station), and and sometimes notice the hum of a train going by. In all, it will be comparable to Park Place, depending on which side of the building one is on in both cases.

officedweller · #**779** Posted **Feb 15, 2016, 9:50 PM**

Yeah, it depends on your tolerance. Some people are sensitive to noise, others, not so much.

GMasterAres · #**780** Posted **Feb 16, 2016, 12:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by rokim99

Wow this buidling is so close to the skytrain tracks... Will noise be a concern for this building ? The reason I ask this ... is because I have friends that live In park place (near king george)... and they say they can still hear the noise.thoughts?

Also the canopy they placed above the tracks for the span of the building with wood panels should help soften the noise.

For SkyTrain though the major noise comes from the Mark Is accelerating and from track switching. The track switching is the loudest and having lived in Park Place, that's the noise you typically can pick out at night.

There is no track switching at Surrey Central (or at least rarely) so I think it will be less of an issue. The most noisy in towers are emergency vehicles anyway. You hear every single one especially close to King George Station since it is so close to the Hospital and Fraser Highway is a major Fire Truck route.