200-Million Cable-Stayed Bridge Being Eyed in Edmonton
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Journal of Commerce by Construct Connect® MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2018 www.journalofcommerce.com VOL. 107 NO. 43 $20.82 plus GST ALERT! $200-million cable-stayed bridge being eyed in Edmonton In the event of a Canada Post strike, you will have access to a digital copy of the Journal of Commerce: GRANT CAMERON www.journalofcommerce.com/ CORRESPONDENT issue onstruction of a mammoth, If you have any questions please contact our Customer Relations team $200-million cable-stayed at 1-800-959-0502. bridge that would stretch Cacross Yellowhead Trail in the north end of Edmonton has been unveiled IN BRIEF as part of plans being considered by city council to extend the northwest From construction leg of Edmonton’s light rail transit to the cloud (LRT) system. The bridge would be the first long- VANCOUVER span cable-stayed bridge in the City A Vancouver-based firm of Edmonton, and Alberta, as well as has partnered with enter- the longest cable-stayed bridge span prise software firm Acumat- dedicated to LRT in North America. ica to take construction The structure, with a total length of from blueprints to bits and 726 metres including the approaches, bytes. would reshape Edmonton’s northern Constructive Solutions skyline and become a landmark of for Business Inc. is collab- the city. orating with Acumatica on “One of the challenges in build- RENDERING COURTESY THE CITY OF EDMONTON its Construction Edition, ing a bridge like this is that none of An artist’s rendering shows what a $200-million cable-stayed bridge that would stretch across Yellowhead Trail an end-to-end cloud-based the support pylons can be on the in the north end of Edmonton would look like. The proposed bridge is being considered by city council to extend system for homebuilders, Yellowhead Trail or in the CN Rail the northwest leg of Edmonton’s light rail transit system. general contractors, sub- Walker Yard, so that necessitates the contractors and developers. long span and tall towers,” said Scott and to provide comfort to the pedes- short intervals between trains. The the LRT line to connect NAIT with The system allows users Macintosh, general supervisor, pro- trians and the cyclists on the sidewalk trains themselves, even when empty, a station on the Blatchford develop- to manage data in real- ject management of Edmonton’s LRT under wind and other loads.” constitute a heavy load. The structure, ment site where a 20-year project time on various devices infrastructure delivery. The challenge then, he said, is to especially the stay cables, is subjected is underway to build housing for and features unlimited There are many design challen- find a balanced point in the design to to an extremely high number of load 30,000 people. user licensing and integra- ges for a long-span bridge like the meet performance criteria and still cycles.” The city is looking for funding tion with Procore, Criter- one proposed, he said, noting wind- have a constructible structure. The proposed bridge is included in from the federal and provincial gov- ion, ADP and other similar sensitivity, rigidity and fatigue are the A cable-stayed bridge is a design the second part of a two-phase pro- ernments to pay for that segment of software. most significant. that supports the deck with cables posal in Edmonton’s transportation the work and the procurement pro- Construction Solutions “On one hand, long-span cable- running directly to a tower. master plan that is being considered cess on the first phase could begin in will exhibit the software in stayed bridges are wind sensitive Macintosh said a complicating by city council to carry the city’s Metro early 2019. The work would involve Vancouver on Nov. 20 and structures and are flexible by nature,” factor in the build will be the fatigue Line LRT extension north. The vision installing one kilometre of track in Calgary on Nov. 21. he said. “On the other hand, LRT challenge that arises from the LRT is to expand LRT services to all sectors and extending the line to where the JOC NEWS SERVICE bridges need to be rigid enough to train load frequencies. of the city over the next two decades. bridge is to be built. ensure the safe operation of trains “Modern train schedules call for The first phase entails extending See RECOMMENDATIONS, Pg. 4 CanaData panel discusses smart city opportunities, challenges ANGELA GISMONDI Toronto’s eastern waterfront, which she has been about like the social implications of smart cities DCN STAFF WRITER involved with extensively. Last year, Waterfront like tracking and how data might be used.” he evolution of smart cities has brought Toronto, a tripartite public corporation put out a At every level of government in Canada nobody about a number of challenges and risks, but tender for a partner to come up with a plan for a is quite sure what to do and there is a panic, she also a number of opportunities, a panel of smart city neighbourhood. The RFP was won by said. Texperts discussed at the recent CanaData confer- Sidewalk Labs, which is a subsidiary of Alphabet, “Governments are acting fast and trying to pos- ence in Toronto. a sister company to Google. sibly regulate a little too quickly. There is no one “I think a lot of the discussions we need to have “A year into a $50 million piece of work to make solution to building a smart city or to using tech- about technology is not binary — this is good, this a plan for a smart city neighbourhood, no land nology in an ethical way, it’s complicated,” said is bad — they are about tradeoffs and that requires has changed hands and it’s a year of planning Wylie, adding one of the biggest problems is that discourse and dialogue and education,” said Bianca what a smart city neighbourhood might look like,” politicians specifically are looking at them as eco- Wylie, co-founder of Tech Reset Canada. said Wylie. nomic development opportunities. “I’m really excited for what engineers and the “Because we are not on the same page about “We need to figure out what we can do in the history of engineering and the history of math complexities, opportunities and risks, fear is dom- short term, the medium and the long-term. This and science can bring to the table. It is so needed inating the discourse. Surveillance and privacy is the challenge that we have. Everyone in this right now, that we return to thinking about sci- are the overriding issues you hear about when room is part of the conversation for sure because ence, innovation and technology as things that people talk about smart cities and that’s unfortu- everybody is involved in building.” are driven by math and science not by corporate nate because there are much bigger and differ- James Benham, CEO of JBKnowledge Inc., interest. And I say that because of what is happen- ent things to talk about like control, economic said as a councillor in a small town in Texas, he ing in the smart city context.” development opportunities, power, but there are worked on a plan to make his city a smart city. She spoke about the Sidewalk Labs project on also things that are a bit hairy that we need to talk See PROCUREMENT, Pg. 3 Canada Post Publication Mail Sales Agreement 40063367 BID CALENDAR: ALBERTA 5 • BRITISH COLUMBIA 10 • POST-BID REPORTS: VANCOUVER 19 • VANCOUVER ISLAND 19 REGIONAL B.C. 20 • SOUTHERN ALBERTA 21 • NORTHERN ALBERTA 21 • PRE-BID REPORTS 23 Page 2 Journal of Commerce Monday, October 29, 2018 Modular wood-frame residence at Trinity Western University tallest in Canada DAVID WYLIE ing — incoming students, especially in metro SPECIAL TO THE JOC areas like Greater Vancouver. ost-secondary students already have TWU knows that challenge all too well. a lot to worry about — leaving home It’s the largest and fastest-growing Christian for the first time, maintaining good university in Canada, and demand for stu- Pgrades, making new friends. dent housing had reached its limit. With just You can add another stress to the list: find- 900 beds, the university had been converting ing somewhere to live. double-occupancy rooms into triple-occu- With thousands of names on waiting lists pancy rooms to meet demand. for student housing at British Columbia “It’s not easy to find a place to rent in the universities, the skyrocketing demand in an Lower Mainland, especially on a student already crowded and expensive rental market budget,” said Scott Fehrenbacher, senior vice- has inspired an innovative solution at Trinity president external relations for TWU. “One Western University (TWU). of our goals is to provide attractive, comfort- The private Christian liberal arts univer- able and affordable housing that will foster an sity in Langley, B.C., did something recently environment to promote the success of our that no other university in Canada has ever students. This new residence helps to accom- done. The school hired Metric Modular, a plish that.” B.C.-based modular builder, to build the tall- A modular wood building proved to be the est wood-framed modular student housing perfect solution for TWU who were able to complex in Canada. build a student residence to meet their needs The entire five-storey structure of Jacob- at over 5,000 square metres while keeping the PHOTO COURTESY METRIC MODULAR son Hall was completed in just nine months, cost within budget and accelerating the trad- Trinity Western University in Langley, B.C. recently hired Metric Modular, a B.C.-based adding housing for about 220 students who itional speed of construction.