Regina Construction IV

[gecho111]

Data center video from a guy on Facebook with a Mavic 3. Judging from the size of downtown in the background he's using the 7x optical zoom (maybe not, part way through the video he switches to a higher zoom so might have started at 3x and switched to 7x). https://www.facebook.com/reel/1675510957051781

I'd love one of those but they are about $3500 of the Mavic 3 which is the previous generation, and $4500 for the current Mavic 4. Though the 7x camera has the smallest / least sensitive sensor of the 3 cameras on the drone. The Air3s is half the price and does much of what the Mavic can do. 4K / 12MP photos with a 1" sensor vs 6K / 20MP 4/3" sensor and doesn't have a variable aperature camera.

[gecho111]

Douglas Park project moving slowly (it has been wet), but they have poured the first section of foundation wall and removed the forms. Arens road ready to be paved. BMX track paved, should be ready to open soon if they landscape around it with sod. I took the gravel route from Wascana View to Wascana Parkway so I got some data centre photos while I was there.

BMX track video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUiX4BnGNeQ

https://www.flickr.com/photos/reginaconstruction/





Data centre album: https://www.flickr.com/gp/reginaconstruction/E69Y4799Bw

[Festivus]

Originally Posted by gecho111

Douglas Park project moving slowly (it has been wet), but they have poured the first section of foundation wall and removed the forms. Arens road ready to be paved. BMX track paved, should be ready to open soon if they landscape around it with sod. I took the gravel route from Wascana View to Wascana Parkway so I got some data centre photos while I was there.

BMX track video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUiX4BnGNeQ

https://www.flickr.com/photos/reginaconstruction/





Data centre album: https://www.flickr.com/gp/reginaconstruction/E69Y4799Bw

Once again, thank you so much for these photos! You're really doing great work, and it's very much appreciated!

[gecho111]

Boom lifts delivered for the Costco building assembly. Looks like they are getting close to finishing the site drainage installation. The orange excavators have been all over the site the past month or so installing pipes to connect to the storm water storage. More gravel delivered in the past few days so they should finish up the storm water chambers soon with a dry stretch in the forecast.

I think this building on the east side of Westerra was about to start. https://www.regina.ca/export/sites/Regin...nt/PL202500394-8101-Dewdney-Avenue-2.pdf

Looks like the demolition part of the bypass bridge repair is done. Resting pads for the new girder have been poured.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/reginaconstruction/

[gecho111]

"Rapid" housing project update. https://www.ctvnews.ca/regina/article/st...g-project-transferred-to-city-of-regina/


Also the 2026 aerial imagery is available on the pain in the ass to use site (can only zoom out so far, and images don't always fully load, it goes nuts if you pan outsite the allowed area forcing you to reload). Its usually a few months until the overhead mosaic gets loaded onto the regular aerial imagery viewer. Pictures were taking between May 24 and June 14. The data center is outside the coverage area.

https://opengis.regina.ca/PictometryIPA/ReginaIPA.aspx?lat=50.443904&lon=-104.604772

[gecho111]

Costco building permit in today's report.

[gecho111]

Starting to prepare a few areas at the Costco for paving. Not sure if they'll pave right away or if they just want flat areas to store materials and run the boom lifts for building construction. Covered more of the storm chambers with dirt. Overnight ring road restrictions starting Monday evening to do the north Albert bridge deck concrete.

Two panoramas at the Grand Coulee Truckstop. I just noticed in those panoramas there are tube forms for the above ground portion of the light pole and large sign bases.
https://cdn.pannellum.org/2.5/pannellum....r.com/65535/55384426276_378f3d4115_o.jpg
https://cdn.pannellum.org/2.5/pannellum....r.com/65535/55384426251_5192acfb2c_o.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/reginaconstruction/

[Stormer]

Drove by Costco this am. I was surprised at how extremely active the site was given it is at a similar stage to the Bell Data Centre and several smaller projects. Lots of work out there for earth movers, concrete companies and pavers.

[gecho111]

Installing some precast panels at the Costco. Should be just for the loading bay judging from the city's 2018 aerial photos that showed the east Costco partially constructed. Even the taller section of wall they are forming up is the same as the east store.





Might have to manually select 2018 on the viewer and can change camera angles using the circle in the upper left.
https://opengis.regina.ca/PictometryIPA/ReginaIPA.aspx?lat=50.443508&lon=-104.507563

[gecho111]

Curb machine near Courtney to do the curbs for the Rink extension into Coopertown. Starting to install storm drains in what I think is the last road for phase 1. Piles going in for the McDonalds already. First layer of pavement on Arens, I think they are setting the manhole / water valve heights now. Doing the finishing touches on the BMX track. Second pile driller at the Grasswood apartment project, and a retaining wall started for a second building. Maybe they are going to do all the buildings at once.

Constant stream of trucks hauling dirt out to the data centre site for a couple more building pads. Got some photos / videos of the #6 dirt hole this afternoon. When I was bringing the drone in to land I looked up and was like "that's not my drone!" There was also a much larger octocopter out there. I had see its shadow towards the end of the video I recorded but from the controller screen I thought it might have been a bird. I managed to keep the turns pretty smooth in the video but there were a few spots I slightly jerky. I always keep forgetting to lock the video settings before pressing record, in auto the exposure changes as clouds pass.

Dirt pit video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEEhE27v1fs

Panoramas (Coopertown, Rosewood, Eastbrook BMX track)
https://cdn.pannellum.org/2.5/pannellum....r.com/65535/55387034086_e6eae2b144_o.jpg
https://cdn.pannellum.org/2.5/pannellum....r.com/65535/55387431365_c2af5a039c_o.jpg
https://cdn.pannellum.org/2.5/pannellum....r.com/65535/55387034666_57b73ac975_o.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/reginaconstruction/









Data Centre Album: https://www.flickr.com/gp/reginaconstruction/c8R21M296J

[gecho111]

Looks like they are trying to make up for lost time on the concrete work at Costco. Working on the interior column supports and outer wall forms. Curbs going in for some of the new roads in Westerra. I think most of the storm drain pipe is in, so work on the remaining roads should start soon.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/reginaconstruction/

[Stormer]

How many borrow pits are there for the data centre and where are they situated?

[gecho111]

Originally Posted by Stormer

How many borrow pits are there for the data centre and where are they situated?

I think its just the one on highway 6 just before the twinned section ends.

[gecho111]

I was surprised at the change at the Costco site since yesterday. Deliveries of steel columns, beams and trusses. A triangular section they'd been prepping has been paved. About half the remaining storm chambers placed. Compacting of the SW corner of the site, presumably the next section to be prepped for pavement.

I stopped there before going over to the north Albert bridge. I got there a bit too early since I wanted to stop at the Costco while there was still plenty of light. I went back later for video and some pictures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvfIXRIXWcE
Second video I edited this morning, focus is a bit off which seems to happen a lot in the dark with the 2x zoom mode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7eNA2uRVIg

A Costco panorama before the storm chambers are covered. https://cdn.pannellum.org/2.5/pannellum....r.com/65535/55391193242_19747e1703_o.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/reginaconstruction/

[gecho111]

Tender posted for an engineering consultant for Taylor Field redevelopment. No pictures other than one showing site boundaries.

[gecho111]

I saw a full depth reclaimation machine (looks like a piece of farm equipment with big tires) at the Costco site and was wonder what they were using it for. Looking at photos from today I caught it moving away from the SW corner of the site where it had been working. Its tire tracks in disturbed soil. Its working in conjunciton with the compactors over there. They are used to stabilize soft soils so they don't collapse under weight, so there must have been a soft spot over there. Its like a giant carbide rototiller that can inject water and either lime or cement into the soil.

They added a construciton trailer, containers, more boom lifts and materials to the part that was paved yesterday. Most of the remaining interior column bases have forms added since yesterday.

Work progressing at the Douglas Park project, the pile driller is gone and foundation wall extended since I was last there. Arens Road paving is done (but not open). Maka Park had its grand opening on Sunday and was busy today. I took a zoomed in video of the pump track and one of the park.

Ended up taking a lot of data centre photos since the thin overcast made for good lighting. Were doing a concrete slab pour out there tonight. Putting the top layer on another building pad, also some building parts stored on it. Might be close to the end of dirt hauling as they are running out of space on the site.

The drone is definitely having trouble keeping the camera level. Its more noticeable taking photos at the data centre since the angle often has the horizon showing. How much it is off level depends which direction the drone is facing, probably an issue with a gyroscope in the IMU. I'll probably just live with it for a while since I'd rather not have it gone for over a week again right away.

Pump track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQCtBjX5UnM
Maka Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQBedkKpKRU

https://www.flickr.com/photos/reginaconstruction/





Data centre album: https://www.flickr.com/gp/reginaconstruction/4T4nkQ4p00

[sask1982]

Originally Posted by gecho111

I saw a full depth reclaimation machine (looks like a piece of farm equipment with big tires) at the Costco site and was wonder what they were using it for. Looking at photos from today I caught it moving away from the SW corner of the site where it had been working. Its tire tracks in disturbed soil. Its working in conjunciton with the compactors over there. They are used to stabilize soft soils so they don't collapse under weight, so there must have been a soft spot over there. Its like a giant carbide rototiller that can inject water and either lime or cement into the soil.

They added a construciton trailer, containers, more boom lifts and materials to the part that was paved yesterday. Most of the remaining interior column bases have forms added since yesterday.


https://www.flickr.com/photos/reginaconstruction/

Do we know if Canola Ave is getting extended west to Pinkie as part of & to align with the opening of Costco?

[gecho111]

Originally Posted by sask1982

Do we know if Canola Ave is getting extended west to Pinkie as part of & to align with the opening of Costco?

The site plan shows parking in that area, so they aren't adding an access there. I checked the current neighbourhood plan and it shows a Pinkie entrance on Wasacase blvd which is just south of Wheat Crescent. But the part of Wascase to get to Pinkie isn't part of the current construction. But but there has been a dirt track there that people use as a shortcut. It had been blocked before current construction but people have a habit of detouring the blockage.

https://www.westerraregina.ca/builders