West Edmonton CRU
Client: SmartCenters |
Location: 184 St. & Stony Plain Rd., Edmonton, AB |
Type: Materials Testing - Site Grading |
Project Budget: > $1 Million |
Consulting: $125,000.00 |
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In the summer and fall of 2008, ParklandGEO acted as the geotechnical consultant to SmartCenters and provided materials engineering and testing for the site grading at the Ashley’s CRU building site in north-west Edmonton, AB. The project included underground service installation, general site grading, parking lot development, subgrade stabilization and paving, and other general site work.
The site was approximately 33 acres in total size, with a total of nine different building areas.
Several site problems were encountered through construction period including the presence of extensive underground utilities already in place with a large amount of services requiring installation, the presence of extensive buried organic layers, soft subgrade conditions, and periods of rain through construction
ParklandGEO provided testing as well as materials engineering services throughout the entire period of construction. The main ParklandGEO staff responsible for this project were Mike McCormick as project manager, Candice Karas as field supervisor and Alex Thomson as a materials tester. ParklandGEO deemed some areas of the subgrade to be excessively soft and provided recommendations for improvement including deleterious material removal, moisture conditioning, and cement stabilization
