Category: Featured Projects

Rushing to Beat the Cold Weather at Baydo Pointe

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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.

The very first section of parkade walls – September 20th pour date
Setting up the concrete pump for a morning pour November 1st.
Completed parkade walls.
A stand-alone section of Doka wall formwork.

Chinese Elders Mansion – Edmonton, AB

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Completed concrete wall at Chinese Elders Mansion located in downtown Edmonton.
Decorative Concrete Wall

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:

  • The shape had to match existing concrete as seamlessly as possible.
  • Form ties were restricted to areas of the profile that were to be painted (rather than sand-blasted).
  • Extreme care was needed to shape the top profile in the wet concrete.

Seeing the project 100% complete for the first time recently, I thought it was worth sharing!

 

New concrete to match existing profile
Tundra’s scope is complete, ready for next trade.
Detailed formwork was necessary to construct the required profile.
Fresh concrete showing the cap profile.

 

Two Edmonton Grocery Stores

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Two Edmonton Grocery Stores

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!

 

Mina Harvey

Engineer

Erik Chandler

Support Staff

FCL/Co-op Lumber Distribution Hub

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FCL/Co-op Lumber Distribution Hub is out of the ground!

 

 

 

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!

We’re proud that we got it done in the middle of winter, with temperatures dropping as low as -25C. We were able to maintain our schedule despite the extra time needed to heat the formwork, rebar, and concrete while it cured.

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

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Station Park - Elevator Shaft Complete

Station Park

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.

 

 

CN Walker Rail Yard

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CN Walker Rail Yard

Fueling Platform & Tank Ring Foundation

Tundra was contacted in late November to help Phoenix Petroleum with their upgrades to the CN Walker Rail Yard just north of the Yellowhead Freeway in Edmonton.

The fueling platform featured a custom structural landing adjacent to precast rail panels. The landing also incorporated an integrated curb, poured with the broom-finish landing.

The tank foundation is a large concrete ring sitting on compacted ground. Our crew had a lot of fun doing this one –our only regret is that most of the beautiful concrete will be buried!

 

St Thomas Aquinas School – Provost

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St Thomas Aquinas School

Provost, AB

We are proud of the work we completed for Jen-Col Construction! The new St Thomas Aquinas School project was a great experience and the team at Jen-Col was responsive and easy to work for.

The project itself was fairly standard: 5’ foundation wall on footing throughout. The only out-of-the-ordinary concrete formwork were the two suspended concrete beams above large gymnasium openings.

Our scope was completed in early October 2020.

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103 Street Stairs

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Feature Entrance Steps

Tundra was contacted by Rucon Contracting to help with formwork for this feature set of stairs along 103 Street just north of Jasper Avenue. We’re proud of the results!

 

Tundra handled the formwork, Rucon the placing and finishing.

67′ long x 5 risers, monolithic pour to avoid seams or alignment issues.

Light sandblast finish, heavy sandblast inlay on treads.

Another challenging formwork project is completed successfully by Tundra!

 

CFB Wainwright Community Centre

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CFB Wainwright Community Centre

Client: Pomerleau Construction

Tundra finished the foundation for the new community centre being constructed at CFB Wainwright. Our scope was completed in February 2020.

The project has over 2.4km of grade beam packed into a fairly tight footprint. Not much to look at once it’s all buried, but we took some interesting pictures. Slightly unusual on a project of this type, the many many intersecting beams and intense rebar at each intersection made setting the anchor bolts a lot of fun!

Thanks to a great team at Pomerleau! — Travis Ophof (superintendent) & Ryan Going (project manager)