Block by Amacon | 150 Robson at Cambie | 87.2m | 29 fl | U/C

[madog222]

Do you know where that crane is setup?

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by madog222

Do you know where that crane is setup?

837 Beatty.

[jollyburger]

You can see it on the BC Place webcam

https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/canada...place-cam.html

[officedweller]

Looks pretty much the same as McMinsen's March 30 pics.

Pics by me today (no activity on site).

[griswold]

Yesterday

[officedweller]

Pic by me June 22nd:

[officedweller]

Forgot I took this.

July 15th by me.

[officedweller]

By me Sept 29th:

[officedweller]

From the downtown thread Dec 10th, 2024:

Originally Posted by gaviscon

837 Beatty & Block Residences

20241209_113634 by globalbusinesscentre105 H

20241209_113756 by From the Downtown thread:

globalbusinesscentre105 H, on Flickr

20241209_113915 by globalbusinesscentre105 H, on Flickr

[IMG]20241209_113904 by globalbusinesscentre105 H, on Flickr[/IMG]

[jollyburger]

Drone footage of the site from back in November

https://www.instagram.com/p/DCIICHoux5k/

[jrdtown]

Today, my photo

[officedweller]

Nice.
I wonder when a crane is coming?

[jollyburger]

If there's five levels of underground parking I assume they are only about half way down?

[officedweller]

Oh, wow.
It looked like the bottom was levelling out.

[jollyburger]

Actually maybe it is close to bottom. It seemed like it's around 55 feet to the bottom of the parkade. And the facade is 40ish something feet?

https://web.archive.org/web/20170606...bson/index.htm

[officedweller]

Pic by me March 29th:

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Pic by me March 29th:

There's a crane base at the bottom of the hole, but it looked like there was still quite a bit of excavated material to lift out before they can install it.

Unusual geology there; usually in a hole that deep there are some erratic rocks that were deposited by the glacier, but they seem to have only the fine glacial till to deal with.

[jollyburger]

Back in 2011 at Standard (Concert)

Weighing about 300 tonnes, the 20-by-17 foot boulder was scraped up from the dirt and rubble at the site of an eight-storey condo planned for Granville and Davie streets. The mammoth rock, termed a “rogue errant,” was likely a deposit from the last ice age thousands of years ago.

Rocks that huge are uncommon (a five-foot diameter boulder is more typical) at construction sites in downtown Vancouver, says Kevin Ronning, president of Southwest Contracting Ltd., excavation and shoring contractor for the project. That’s a good thing because removing them can be arduous.

Exhausting what seemed like all options, the frustrated excavator turned to Vancouver-based Ecobust Distribution International Inc. for a solution: a non-explosive liquid mixture that carries a big punch.

The harmless-looking liquid expands to four times its size and exerts up to 20,000 psi — enough pressure to break almost anything, says Ecobust president David McNamara.

The operation involved filling a series of holes 1.5 inches in diameter drilled deep into the rock with Ecobust and then waiting for the product to do its job. Southwest performed the task on a Friday and came back to work Monday to find fractures throughout the granite giant, says Ronning. The sequence was repeated the next day, resulting in fractured pieces small enough to easily remove from the site with conventional excavation equipment.

https://canada.constructconnect.com/...und-dcn043129w

Seems like North Vancouver sites have a larger problem with boulders

This one is going down about 80 feet into the ground and with the soil conditions here in Vancouver particularly north Van where we are there is some soil and some boulders typically you find dozens of boulders in an excavation like that if not hundreds.

https://rockbusters.com/project/deep...ore-vancouver/

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Nice.
I wonder when a crane is coming?

Crane went up last Thursday.





April 10 '25, my pics

[griswold]

This youtube channel has a live stream of the site

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHmfxqBOHbw