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Originally Posted by officedweller
Nice -
Would the crane base be shown on such plans?
Looks like they'll be pouring concrete right up to those SkyTrain columns except the 3rd one (?)
Why does the core for the tallest tower not look to have elevator cabs in it? (Presumably 6 cabs? Maybe 3 upper + 3 lower)
I think I see a secondary elevator bank to the parking garage.
The shorter towers show 3 or 4 elevators that go right to the garage - seems like a disadvantage for living in the tallest tower.
The cross-hatched area marked N.I.C. (?) would be the site of the tall office tower.
That core shown looks too small for that big an office tower.
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-The Crane bases are typically never shown in construction documents since they're only temporary as far as the construction period lasts for and you end up building over where they stood.
- The hatches around the circles (of the skytrain columns) that you're reading as concrete pours are not in fact concrete pours but rather markings on the ground for restricted areas - like the yellow or white hatchings you normally see marked in parking garages.
The concrete pours of the columns only go as far as the edge of the circle itself (i.e. inside the circle) - which still makes for a massive column as those read to be about 16-18 feet diameter of what will presumably be solid reinforced concrete, or just about the length of a single parking bay.
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"Why does the core for the tallest tower not look to have elevator cabs in it? (Presumably 6 cabs? Maybe 3 upper + 3 lower")")
Assuming we're looking at it correctly, the tallest tower seems to have only half of its elevators (3 cabs) come down to this level - with the other 3 presumably starting from the level above. It might have to do with how the parking in the entire parkade is organized, but typically the elevator cabs don't always go or need to go to the lowest level of the core. (see : the tower to the north of it has no cabs shown at all at this level with the elevator core taken up by storage stalls in its crawl space).
- "N.I.C." stands for "Not in Contract" - Meaning not (currently) under construction - even though part of it might be excavated,- until a later phase, as its not included as part of the current building permit and contractor construction and building contract.
The elevator core does seem small for an office tower (seems like a 6 cab core too), but for a 30-ish storey office building actually, it also seems to make sense.
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