[New Westminster] Pier West | 180M / 149M | 53 / 43 fl | Completed

[Klazu]

It's a big site. I wonder how much below the river level parking will go?

[madog222]

Originally Posted by Klazu

It's a big site. I wonder how much below the river level parking will go?

Have a look on page 4 of the public consultation boards, not a technical drawing but is should be close to reality.

[jollyburger]

Opinion: Warm weather heats up complaints about New West pile-driving noise

https://www.newwestrecord.ca/local-news/...bout-new-west-pile-driving-noise-3845409

[Lexus]

2021, June 19

Crane is up. Change to C/U?

Untitled by Lexus LX570, on Flickr


Untitled by Lexus LX570, on Flickr

Untitled by Lexus LX570, on Flickr

Untitled by Lexus LX570, on Flickr

[giallo]

Exciting. These towers are going to really stand out.

[madog222]

24 hour, 4500 cubic meter monolithic concrete pour for the West tower.

Bosa Development has firmed up its plans for a monolithic concrete pour at the Pier West site on New Westminster’s waterfront.

City council has granted Bosa Development an exemption to the construction noise bylaw from 6 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 22 until 9 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 23. This is for a concrete pour for the creation of the west tower foundation for Pier West.

“Bosa Development have confirmed that the monolithic pour of 4,500 cubic metres for the West Tower core needs to occur as one single continuous event estimated to take approximately 24 hours,” said a staff report. “Bosa’s engineers report that the core footing needs to be a monolithic slab as it will be located below the water table due to its close proximity to the south Fraser River.”

“During the pour, there will be four concrete pump trucks located around the foundation area of the worksite and a spare concrete pump truck in case of breakdown of any pump truck,” said the report. “Concrete will (be) supplied by approximately 23 concrete supply trucks per hour for a total load of 450 trucks during the duration of the entire concrete pour.”

https://www.newwestrecord.ca/local-news/...-up-for-new-west-waterfront-site-4516414

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by madog222

24 hour, 4500 cubic meter monolithic concrete pour for the West tower.


https://www.newwestrecord.ca/local-news/...-up-for-new-west-waterfront-site-4516414

Dang!
23 trucks an hour and 450 trucks total in 24 hours.

Goodbye to any sleep for anyone who lives in the nearby vicinity for that time period.
Probably a good time to go visit the country cottage or go for a ski trip weekend at Whistler. A trip to Victoria maybe.

For that matter, traffic in the area is going to be a nightmare with all those trucks about, unless they're freighting most of the concrete in via barge and the river. ( I don't even know if that's possible with that location)

That's a dang whole lot of concrete.
I can get why they have to do it as one continuous pour.
Probably can't afford to have any seams that far below the water table.

EDIT :
(*Yep. It seems like seams would be the major concern for separate or non-continuous pours according to the article.
Also, it seems like the only thing the process can't interrupt is the train traffic and train schedule which will continue as usual regardless of whatever disruption they cause to the trucks and the truck routes (which will then have to find alternative routes in case of trains crossing interruptions.

Again, bye-bye to any usual road traffic sanity in that area for that 24 hour period.

It also says in the article that the trucks have a 90 minute window to get the concrete to the site, so I guess that answers the question of whether they could get it to the site via a barge or the waterway)

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

Dang!
Goodbye to any sleep for anyone who lives in the nearby vicinity for that time period.
Probably a good time to go visit the country cottage or go for a ski trip weekend at Whistler. A trip to Victoria maybe.

How loud / far will the sound travel? There are some residential buildings on Columbia but most of it is retail and office. Will it travel a couple blocks up the hill, or (more likely) a few blocks to the west to the Quayside area? Still they're only talking from early Friday morning (some people may be woken up early) through overnight Fri into Saturday morning.

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by Sheba

How loud / far will the sound travel? There are some residential buildings on Columbia but most of it is retail and office. Will it travel a couple blocks up the hill, or (more likely) a few blocks to the west to the Quayside area? Still they're only talking from early Friday morning (some people may be woken up early) through overnight Fri into Saturday morning.

I think it will travel up the hill fairly easily.
Remember that sound travels more effectively through solid (like both the ground and the infrastructure), than through air.

As for how loud, I'm not certain how loud they'll be relative to, let say...piling,....but when they were driving those piles not that long ago, you COULD hear them as far as those residential properties to the west.

The only thing was that that was during the daytime and when most people were away at work anyway.

But then again, pile-driving sound travels directly through the ground, so that probably helped it dissipate and spread out faster.

[jollyburger]

Isn't Front Street literally wall to wall trucks during the day? I doubt anyone will notice compared to the train/truck noise. There is no way pumping concrete into a pit is going to generate any noise/vibrations comparable to pile driving.

[Klazu]

Somehow the idea of any extra truck traffic through New Westminster makes me giggle.

[jollyburger]

Pier West foundation



https://twitter.com/GlotmanSimpson/status/1461754406320410627/photo/1

And the pour timelapse video:

https://twitter.com/GlotmanSimpson/status/1464291194129862659

[connect2source]

Amazing to think that my pre-sale client, who purchased a very high-floor one bed suite, will wait 7-8 years for completion on his unit!

[Klazu]

There are three tower cranes on-site and there is part of the structure already above ground on the westside of the site.

[Nites]

Surprised we were only able to come up with 1 photo update in the last 5 months for such a big project/unique. I guess there isn't very many of us out in New West? I'll try getting a few shots this month if weather permits.

[Metro-One]

I would say it is currently the least discussed major project happening.

But I feel that will change once it starts rising.

Relatively speaking this will potentially be the most impactful project of the next few years in regards to its surrounding. Coming from the Alex Fraser Bridge this will look immense.

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Nites

Surprised we were only able to come up with 1 photo update in the last 5 months for such a big project/unique. I guess there isn't very many of us out in New West? I'll try getting a few shots this month if weather permits.

Ovation (next to New West Station) has also been largely forgotten about. I've tried to post picture links every so often as it's all I can do without a camera.

[Lexus]

Can anyone property post this photos from instagram?

Here is a link

https://www.instagram.com/p/CW9q4RHJYE5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

[connect2source]

Add 618 Carnarvon to the forgotten list, have a pre-sale buyer for that too. We need someone on the ground in New West.

[jollyburger]

This was tagged as New West I think

https://www.instagram.com/p/CWT26QcB31Y/