Landmark on Robson | Completed

[Zepfancouver]

Originally Posted by Otis_Van

During the final weeks of demo, someone went around with a scissor lift and torch and carefully removed all the rebar remains that we’re sticking out of those foundation walls. My hunch is they wouldn’t have bothered if those walls were all coming down anyway.

Nice observation Otis_Van. For weeks I've seen him working hard on this, wondering what all the effort was for... I'm in the area tomorrow, I'll capture the latest goings on there.

[retro_orange]

Originally Posted by Zepfancouver

Nice observation Otis_Van. For weeks I've seen him working hard on this, wondering what all the effort was for... I'm in the area tomorrow, I'll capture the latest goings on there.

They could be doing something similar to what they did when constructing The Independent at Kingsway and Broadway and I have seen it several other times. The perimeter foundation wall of the Jantzen factory was left in-situ as reinforcement for the excavation pit and they just removed the slab to go deeper for the new parkade structure which was set back from the original factory perimeter that fronted right to the sidewalk. I believe they just left the perimeter wall and buried it beneath the new sidewalk, I wonder if it is now part of the weeping system. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=314

Is there evidence that the slab will be removed? It would be quite a shallow parkade if they reused it however I suppose it can support the weight of the new structure considering the size of the previous tower that was on site.

[Vin]

Why spend more money shotcreting a new wall when an old one can be used? They are most likely reusing that wall. Perhaps they can even extend it down should the excavation go deeper.

[Zepfancouver]

Using a Micropile Tieback Machine for sampling or\and surveying.
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[jollyburger]

There's four levels for the parkade so you would assume they would remove it.

[Zepfancouver]

I've had my phone (Galaxy S8) for over two years now...Discovered the Panorama feature last week UHD Image 8960 x 2048 https://i.imgur.com/dufah0X.jpg

[Zepfancouver]

Working on Tieback Anchors on the existing retaining wall. Retro fitting the old ones or installing new ones or they're doing both...Not sure.

[jollyburger]

Scaffolding to surround the construction site is going up. Seems like this project is active.

[Zepfancouver]

A curiosity in the center of the pit. Looks like rock with concrete and rebar.




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[Zepfancouver]

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[jollyburger]

FYI: It cost them $12 million to demolish the tower.

[officedweller]

Less than 3 chandeliers' worth!

[Zepfancouver]

That poor spinning chandelier, it's legacy is going to be a drummers rim-shot to all over expenditure remarks or jokes (which I am also guilty of doing).
I like the spinning chandelier. One thing I know (have learned) is not to tell someone how to spend their hard earn money.

[Zepfancouver]

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[mcminsen]

March 3 '20, my pics

[Klazu]

They have one guy excavating the site for months? Progress is nearly non-existent...

[officedweller]

Is that bedrock?
ie are they just slowly chipping away at bedrock (instead of blasting)?

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Is that bedrock?
ie are they just slowly chipping away at bedrock (instead of blasting)?

If it is rock then it's fairly soft. That machine was chewing through it fairly easily. Maybe it's hard packed glacial till?




March 3 '20, my pic

[whatnext]

Is this thing even being marketed? I don’t see the vaguely desperate ads that it’s contemporaries planned for offshore money were running.