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April 8, 2008



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The Bow
April 26, 2008

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May 1, 2008

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Calgary tower project to break Canadian record
Last Updated: Sunday, May 11, 2008 | 12:13 PM MT
CBC News

Crews in Calgary were busy on the weekend with the country's largest continuous concrete pour of a building foundation.

The record-setting work is for the Bow office tower, which will become the new office building for oil giant EnCana. The pouring of 14,000 cubic metres of concrete — enough for 2,800 homes — began Friday night and was to continue through Sunday.

"This is probably the biggest milestone we will achieve this year, and that's pouring what we call a raft slab," said Michael Brown Matthews of Southwest Development.

The slab will take 36 hours to pour and in the end will cover 2,787 square metres (30,000 square feet) at a depth of about three metres.

"When you include reinforcing steel, the concrete supply, the pumps, everything that's happening, it's about a $10-million foundation," said Kerry Gillis, senior vice-president of Ledcor Construction.

Mayor Dave Bronconnier has called the project on the east side of Centre Street "very ambitious" in a city with a very robust economy.

"To have a project with this size, scope and magnitude delivered on time, that is very impressive," he said.

Only two other continuous pours of concrete have ever been bigger — one in Dubai for the Al Durrah Tower and another in Las Vegas for the Howard Hughes Centre.

When completed, the Calgary building will be the tallest in Western Canada.