[Burnaby] Highline | 177 m | 48 fl | U/C - Page 8

Spr0ckets · #**141** Posted **Sep 28, 2020, 9:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by osirisboy

I can’t remember if this has been discussed. But is 48 floors the same height as 53 floors? Since the former includes office versus hotel (office having higher ceilings)

Hotel also usually have higher floor-to-ceiling than typical regular residential.
Sometimes even as high as your typical office floor-to-ceiling height (in the case of high-end hotels, obviously).

In this case (hard to tell from the images, but....) I'm guessing the hotel scheme didn't have the same height as office use (for floor-to-ceiling), thus when it switched back from Hotel to Office, they lost floor count number (because you get fewer office floor levels with more height equaling more hotel floor levels).

I'm also guessing this because I don't recall the overall tower height being changed at any point (as the usage changed from office to hotel and back to office again despite the floor count changes). I could be wrong, and I hope to be corrected if I am.

Now although you do have some latitude and flexibility to change your project usage after the design permit has been issued - as long as it doesn't affect the overall design too drastically - it becomes tricky when those changes also drastically change the overall form of the tower (including the height), to the degree that the city would require you to have to re-apply for another Design permit.
Even after a Building permit has been issued.

It's part of the reason I don't believe the overall height of this tower was changed (.....or at least not that much) through this back-and-forth shift from Office to hotel and back again.

SpongeG · #**142** Posted **Sep 29, 2020, 3:07 AM**

sorry to take it back to another discussion but when a building is say 53 floors, would the top floor number in the elevator be 54 or higher? like when they skip the 13th floor etc?

Sheba · #**143** Posted **Sep 29, 2020, 3:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

sorry to take it back to another discussion but when a building is say 53 floors, would the top floor number in the elevator be 54 or higher? like when they skip the 13th floor etc?

Burnaby (and Van) doesn't skip floors anymore. I don't know if the rest of the region has clamped down on that - anyone want to chime in on their city?

Spr0ckets · #**144** Posted **Sep 29, 2020, 4:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by Sheba

Burnaby (and Van) doesn't skip floors anymore. I don't know if the rest of the region has clamped down on that - anyone want to chime in on their city?

As far as I know, all the municipalities and cities have banned this practice* (floor skipping) for any new constructions for several years now.

At least in the GVA.

Don't really know about outside the GVA but I doubt it was that prevalent a practice anywhere else in the lower mainland or the rest of the province.

(*Note that this only pertains to official documentation and labeling (Design and building permit applications, Fire Safety mapping etc).
In other circumstances (i.e. marketing material), Developers have found,.....how shall we say...."creative" ways to skirt the requirement)

als · #**145** Posted **Oct 12, 2020, 4:22 AM**

I heard that the build quality over at the Lumina Brendwood project wasn't that good. I am getting a little bit of concerned about Highline now LOL

LeftCoaster · #**146** Posted **Oct 28, 2020, 12:19 AM**

Can confirm this is 48, not 53 floors.

With the office component, double height amenity and lobby floors, and substantial crown this is very likely still in the 170m range though.

Also there will be a lighting feature up the tower on the north and east facades, very similar to Triomphe in Brentwood.