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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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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
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)
We finished the foundation for this 3-story apartment building in mid-October. Our crew from Edmonton never got tired of the scenery!
Mui Kwok Temple
The new Mui Kwok Temple in Edmonton is an impressive building, and features an amazing cast-in-place front staircase that is over 60′ long and 14 risers high! We completed our last pour in November when the structure was under tarps, but recently had opportunity to take some pictures.
Most formwork contractors can pour a few stair risers, but only a few can do this staircase. The formwork was constructed with precision to align the stair risers perfectly across the entire run –no scalloping, no deflection and no unsightly pour joins.
Did we have any issues? Of course! The hardest problem to deal with was rebar coverage at the “throat” in one corner of the stairs where the underlying slope wasn’t as expected. Another decision made early on was not to construct the risers for removal during the pour, which meant minor touch-ups after strip-out and (possible) sacking to fill voids/air bubbles. Overall, however, the project was a resounding success!
We’re extremely proud of this one! A special thanks to our superintendent Darrel @ K-Rite Construction and to our finishers at Axiom Concrete for making this possible.
Tundra Foundations will be showcasing some of our projects here. Please check back for updates.