Construction on Calgary’s new event centre, Scotia Place, continues to move forward, with significant progress made last month.
According to the City of Calgary, a lot of work was completed in August:
- The first concrete slab was poured for the main concourse (ground level).
- Approximately 25 per cent of concrete has been poured for the mezzanine level.
- Waterproofing was completed for the community arena.
- Excavation continued for the parkade and the N.E. corner of the site.
- The foundation for one of the four temporary shoring towers was poured for the steel roof installation.
- Started digging the foundation that will support the restaurants on the west side (along Stampede Trail S.E.).
- Progress made on S.W. stormwater tank.
In July, the project celebrated one year since the construction of the project started.
Calgarians and Airdronians will soon see the next phase as the structure starts to rise towards and above street level later this year.
Through 2025, structural concrete and steelwork will be completed, starting with the current foundation walls and continuing to incorporate access ramps, stairways, elevator cores, and underground columns. During this phase, subterranean plumbing, electrical, and mechanical systems will also be installed.
Scotia Place will feature a 1,000-seat community arena, year-round food options, public plazas and meeting areas, and The Calgary Flames Store in addition to concerts and major sporting events.
Also, according to the City of Calgary, "Scotia Place will have quiet respite spaces designed to reduce anxiety, stress or sensory overload. These spaces provide a calming, restorative space during large events that can be noisy and overstimulating."
In order to make room for more than 41,000 cubic meters of concrete (enough to fill 24 hockey rinks one meter deep), 9,000 metric tons of rebar (the weight of 1,500 elephants), and more than 4,450 kilometres of wire (roughly the distance of a round-trip ticket from Calgary to Chicago), Scotia Place will have removed more than 308,000 cubic meters of dirt, or 123 Olympic swimming pools, once it is finished.
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