CALGARY | Eighth Avenue Place | 689 FT / 210 M | 51 FLOORS - Page 13

kiwi4life · #**241** Posted **Jun 7, 2009, 5:45 AM**

man this is sweet!! i love Calgary, cant wait to move here this fall

kiwi4life · #**242** Posted **Jun 7, 2009, 7:58 PM**

This project is freakin!! love it!, and love Calgary too!!... i know this is a bit of topic but does anyone know of some big construction companies in Calgary that regulary build high rise buldings etc? i know 4 main ones, PCL, GRAHAM, CANA, and ELLIS DON. I really want to move to Calgary in the fall, im 18 yrs old from saskatoon and i don't really enjoy living here and im looking to do my carpentry apprenticeship with any big construction company. I have already 1800 hours training as a carpenter here with a small company. If someone could give me some advice or help that would be great thanks!! bc i really want to live here!

kap384 · #**243** Posted **Jun 9, 2009, 5:38 PM**

Any pics of the steel rising @ EAP? I'm pretty sure I wasn't dreaming this morning.

mersar · #**244** Posted **Jun 12, 2009, 3:21 AM**

evolv · #**245** Posted **Jun 14, 2009, 7:25 PM**

Can anyone provide insight into why those columns directly north of the core are not vertical but on a slight angle?

mersar · #**246** Posted **Jun 14, 2009, 11:23 PM**

Bokimon posted something about whats what in the Calgary construction thread:

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Originally Posted by Bokimon

Lots of steel up for the second floor of the podium at the NW portion as seen in the camera. That area would be the retail area along the +15 corridor, there was some talk of that part of space turning into a fitness facility a while back. The angled steel columns are 1500 diameter steel tubes an inch and a half thick and they will be sloping only in the rear part of the East Tower until the first office plate at the third floor when the office floorplate will really begin to tie in. Then the true tower columns come in and they will be regular I beam(wideflange) shaped columns spaced generously at 9m intervals and 10.5m at front and back of the elevator cores. 22 Elevators for E.Tower, 5.5m floor to floor until Fourth floor where it will be 3750 I think.

Habanero · #**247** Posted **Jun 15, 2009, 7:03 PM**

It really looks like EAP is going up. From Mersar's photo I'd say they're on the 7th floor now.

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Originally Posted by mersar

Big Sky · #**248** Posted **Jun 15, 2009, 8:52 PM**

Taken by Beazley66

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Originally Posted by Beazley66

A few picks from my lunch time walkabout. EAP looked busy as hell in the parkade. Steel is flying up there. They were laying down the formwork for a ramping slab at the west end. looked like 4%. Great day for pictures at the bow. Rico, hope I'm not trespassing, and hope the rest of you don't get sick of a multitude of Bow pics. Couldn't resist though. And I couldn't resist another prodema shot with sunlight glancing of it.

EAP Core and Skyline

EAP Core and Steel. I was there a little over a week ago, and none of this steel was up.

EAP Below Grade

defaultuser · #**249** Posted **Jun 24, 2009, 4:15 AM**

1ajs · #**250** Posted **Jun 24, 2009, 5:45 AM**

dam the core is hudge on that thing

Surrealplaces · #**251** Posted **Jun 24, 2009, 5:52 AM**

Thanks for the updates guys. It looks like they are pouring the 8th floor of the core. This thing's really taking off.

I see that the sign the sign still has a slightly phallic look to it

americanskyscraper22 · #**252** Posted **Jun 24, 2009, 3:14 PM**

wasn't their going to be another tower built that would be second tallest to bow. i think it was called something like the hearld.

mersar · #**253** Posted **Jun 24, 2009, 6:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by americanskyscraper22

wasn't their going to be another tower built that would be second tallest to bow. i think it was called something like the hearld.

Herald Square, which is still a vague proposal and likely will remain one for quite a while. The exact height of that one was not known either (since no formal proposal has been released yet), though the number that we did hear would have put it just shorter then the Bow

As for EAP, wow... I haven't been down there since the last photo I took, the steel is really starting to go up pretty quickly.

americanskyscraper22 · #**254** Posted **Jun 24, 2009, 10:58 PM**

^^ thanks for the info

wild wild west · #**255** Posted **Jun 25, 2009, 2:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by mersar

Herald Square, which is still a vague proposal and likely will remain one for quite a while. The exact height of that one was not known either (since no formal proposal has been released yet), though the number that we did hear would have put it just shorter then the Bow

As for EAP, wow... I haven't been down there since the last photo I took, the steel is really starting to go up pretty quickly.

I can give some details on Herald...proposed height is 223m/731 ft, and will be 53 floors. Design will be very similar to Bay/Adelaide in Toronto, with "fins" at the top reminiscent of Telus Toronto. Of course, she's a ways off with rising vacancies and 5 million sf of towers (including this one) already under construction.

Jimby · #**256** Posted **Jun 30, 2009, 8:13 AM**

Just Build It · #**257** Posted **Jun 30, 2009, 6:49 PM**

I went past EAP yesterday, and at my count, they're pouring the 9th floor. It really starting to rise.

Boris2k7 · #**258** Posted **Jul 5, 2009, 4:05 PM**

July 3, 2009

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Chinook Arch · #**259** Posted **Jul 10, 2009, 3:13 AM**

Well, there's no debate over whether it will be capped. This baby is headed for the sky.

bulliver · #**260** Posted **Jul 10, 2009, 4:41 AM**

^^ In the third pic from the bottom, left side, is that a +15 bridge waiting for EAP to be built or is that a trick of perspective?