Burrard Place | 168m, 112m, 56m | 54fl, 36fl, 13fl | 938,000 sqft | U/C

[Genauso]

Originally Posted by Dimswitch

Where did all those rocks? come from, I don't remember seeing them before.

Originally Posted by mcminsen

Jan.21 '17, my pics

The 2 leftmost pieces of equipment drill down through soil and rocks. Then they blast with explosives, using the black rubber mat to cover the blast holes (towards the right, with the spare bucket resting on it).

Then the excavators come along and collect the smaller, looser pieces of ground.

I'm not sure, but I think the little orange drill riding on tracks is just used for drilling the wall anchors (instead of the wall just holding on to the interfacing ground the iron rods grip against several feet of more stable rock/dirt)

[mcminsen]

Deeper and deeper.




Feb.11 '17, my pics

[Dimswitch]

Anyone have any idea how much longer before bottoming out? Must be getting close by now

[osirisboy]

Looks like 4 floors deep? So another 2 to go?

[mcminsen]

Here's jlousa's post from January 10th. 105 feet deep, 9 levels of parking.

Originally Posted by jlousa

Nope not even close to bottomed out, they are only at 60ft of the 105 they will be going down to accommodate 9 levels of parking. So 45 more ft. Also can confirm the strata offices sold out in only a month on the market.

[Dimswitch]

OK if they were at 60 feet Jan 10th they must be closing in on 100 by now. Hard to estimate but going by that worker in Mc's photo, if he's roughly 6 ft then I'm thinking 100 ft or pretty darn close. Where's that crane anyway?

[Dimswitch]

Went site office yesterday and asked about progress, they said there's 35 feet more to dig. Apparently running into much rock slowing things down.

[LeftCoaster]

Word is the office component is supposed to start immanently. Demo of the existing buildings on Burrard is to happen very soon.

[mcminsen]

March 4 '17, my pics

[LeftCoaster]

So the demo begins. I was told it was going to start 2 weeks ago, so it's more or less on schedule.

[jlousa]

Spoke to a member of the team behind the project yesterday and they are now at 70ft out of 105. 2/3rds of the way down, they've hit rock which has slowed them down but it was expected.

[officedweller]

Thanks for the info.
I wonder how deep Shangri-La's excavation was?

[Dimswitch]

I eye-balled the hole yesterday (13th) and it's at least 85 ft. at lowest level

[WarrenC12]

8 levels of parking?

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

8 levels of parking?

Well they're parking levels but P1-P2 is more bike storage (commercial/visitor spots) than just car parking.

[mcminsen]

March 14 '17, my pic

[officedweller]

Wikipedia says Shangri-La's excavation was 85 ft deep (deepest to that date) - so this one is 20 ft deeper, it seems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Shangri-La

[Dimswitch]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Wikipedia says Shangri-La's excavation was 85 ft deep (deepest to that date) - so this one is 20 ft deeper, it seems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Shangri-La

Looking at McMinsen's pic I'd say they're about 85 feet where they are, so 20 more to go and let's get the crane down there and start building

[Vanville]

My pics taken on Mar.28

Nice rock collection:

You can see the Tate going up in the background in this shot:

[Vin]

Thanks for the updates, Vanville. Wow those are serious rocks, and quite a few are the sizes of a typical family sedan. The haulage fees would be astronomical for this one. At least we know that the foundation for this tower is sitting on some real solid natural footings.