Another Shoppers Drug Mart foundation! This one was very similar to the Calgary Trail location we completed over a year ago: It’s a standard 3’ & 6’ grade beam with integrated curb and structural steel framing. We’re happy to work with Fillmore Construction’s team again, and are looking forward to the next one!
We officially passed our 5-year milestone!
Back in the late summer of 2019, we started with just 2 employees and only a couple small jobs on the books. Since then, we have grown slowly but surely: Now we have a solid team of excellent employees (enough to handle 3 sites at a time), and we have enough work on the books to keep us very, very busy!
A big THANK YOU to those customers who took a chance on a relatively new company and allowed us to prove we could do the job!
We are ahead of schedule at our Baydo Pointe project, but are working long hours to beat the coming cold weather. Hopefully it can stay above freezing for a couple more weeks!
Our speed is thanks in large part to the use of Doka-supplied panel formwork. Every time I use the system I am impressed with it’s speed and versatility. We are currently pouring 150′ of wall every week, and I feel like we could go faster if we had more forms on site. And we don’t require a lot of manpower — a crew of 3-4 workers can strip out and stand (one-side) the formwork in 2 days, and button up in another day.
The structural concrete at this 6-story apartment building is confined to the parkade perimeter walls and footings. The floors and walls are pre-cast concrete mounted on steel columns and beams. It will be interesting to compare the pace of construction of this project to the adjacent wood-frame apartments, which are also 6-story.
I have always been extremely happy with our work on the Chinese Elders Mansion, a project we completed in 2022 for Stanley Construction, but I never was able to take pictures of the completed work until this summer!
This formwork and finishing profile on this project was challenging for several reasons:
Seeing the project 100% complete for the first time recently, I thought it was worth sharing!
Pouring concrete in the cold weather has its challenges, but we also get to enjoy days of incredible beauty! There’s nothing quite like a blanket of fresh snow or hoarfrost on winter trees.
The two sites pictured are Cleartech Warehouse for Petra Holdings, and Sturgeon Lake Women’s Shelter for JEN COL Construction.
Tundra recently completed the foundations for two new Edmonton grocery stores: a Co-op Food Store located in the Orchards neighbourhood, and a new Sobey’s FreshCo located on Manning Drive. We’re proud of our workers for completing both jobs on extremely tight schedules, and it was great to work for these two general contactors again: Norson Construction and Eton-West Construction!
Tundra recently completed the foundation for this new Shoppers Drug Mart going up on Gateway Blvd in Edmonton. This was a fun job for us, and our first for Fillmore Construction, who we hope to work with again! We love pic #3: it showcases the difference in formwork quality between the loading dock grade beam (not exposed to view) and the ramp wall (will be visible).
Our carpenters love to create formwork for structural concrete that’s meant to be seen by the public eye. They take great care in ensuring tight seams, precise corners and bevels, and perfectly aligned tie holes. The stability of the formwork is crucial, especially when it needs to withstand the immense pressure exerted by thousands of pounds of concrete.
The provided images showcase two recent projects: wheelchair ramp walls at St. Mary’s School in Fort Vermilion (with Jen-Col Construction Ltd.) and loading dock walls at FCL’s Lumber Distribution Hub in Fort Saskatchewan (with Pemco Construction Ltd.).
We love hearing how easy it is to build on our foundations! Tundra completed the grade beam for the new FCL/Co-op Lumber Distribution Hub in Fort Saskatchewan, AB with 100% accuracy on our anchor bolts. The steel erecting crew was able to place the building with zero problems!
For anyone who doesn’t know structural concrete, these high-strength anchor bolts cast into the concrete play a vital role: they transfer the loads from the steel column to the foundation. Their location needs to be extremely accurate, typically within 3 or 6mm!
Thanks to our client, Pemco Construction Ltd. and site superintendent Jordan Woods – you were great to work with! Looking forward to the next one!
Station Park is an exciting new project: Edmonton’s (first) retail and food & beverage shipping container park! Located on the corner of Whyte Ave and Gateway Blvd, Tundra completed all the formwork required for this building.
The elevator shaft is the interesting part of this project: Using the Gates Cam-Lock system, we were able to complete the entire 3-story shaft in 3 weeks! The result is a high-quality concrete structure.
Visit stationparkyeg.com for more info about the development.