FOCAL POINT
Calgary — Brookfield Place East
Height: 56 storeys, 243 metres Size: 1.4 million square feet Cost: $900 million Location: Downtown Calgary, between First Street and Second Street and Sixth Avenue and Seventh Avenue SW Status: Under construction Usage: Office and retail Anchor tenant: Cenovus Energy Inc. will occupy one million square feet Developer: Brookfield Office Properties Architects: FKA Architecture & Interiors; DIALOG Structural engineers: Entuitive Corporation Completion: Fall 2017 PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS • Plans are that the main east tower will be complemented by a 41-storey tower on the northwest corner of the site, adding another one million square feet of space. • A half-acre central plaza will include restaurants and shops, plus space for public art and cultural activities. • Built to a LEED Gold standard, green features will include energy-efficient lighting, occupancy sensors, rainwater storage, and materials with low-rated volatile organic compounds. Recycled and local building materials will be used whenever possible. • Commuters will have direct access to the Plus 15 network of pedestrian skywalks and the CTrain. • A bicycle parking area will include 285 stalls — along with lockers and showers. • Electric cars won’t be left out — they’ll have their own charging stations. • To make way for construction, a major network of 700 fibre-optic and electrical cables had to be relocated — a 10-month project in its own right. • More than 160,000 cubic metres of material was removed in an excavation 23 metres deep. The excavation was supported by a caisson wall system down to bedrock and, below that, a shotcrete support wall system. • Construction of the east tower will require 80,000 square metres of concrete. The tower will have a reinforced concrete core with a structural-steel-framed floor plate with poured concrete over metal deck. An automatic climbing system is being used to form and pour the core.
“The building is going to be quite sophisticated looking. It will be quite stunning in its appearance on the skyline.”
JAN SUCHARDA President and CEO Brookfield Office Properties
-artist’s rendering courtesy Brookfield Office Properties
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