Burke Mountain Retaining Wall H
Project Description
PROJECT SUMMARY
Owner: Wesbild Holdings Ltd.
General Contractor: Gemco Construction
Completion: October 2015
Engineer: Golder Associates / InterCAD
SWC Supervisor: Dave Martin
SCOPE OF WORK
1,375m² of permanent rock carved shotcrete
487 permanent hollow core anchors (5,300m of anchors total)
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The Partington Creek development on Burke Mountain in Coquitlam required a number of retaining walls to be constructed for the development. The retaining walls consisted of Allen Block Walls, Stone Strong Walls and permanent shotcrete retaining walls.
On the project Southwest Contracting Ltd (SWC) installed 3 permanent retaining walls as part of 2 different phases of the overall development. The permanent retaining wall H consisted of permanent DCP anchors with a 200mm thick temporary shotcrete facing. Once the temporary shotcrete facing was installed it was overlaid with a permanent architectural shotcrete facing. The client for this project specified a natural rock look for the permanent shotcrete.
Project Details
DATE
October 1, 2016
General Contractor
Gemco Construction
CLIENT
Wesbild Holdings Ltd.
LOCATION
Burke Mountain, Coquitlam, BC
PROJECT MANAGER
Dave Martin
PROJECT TYPE
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