[North Vancouver] Local on Lonsdale | ??m | 20fl | Proposed
Looks like this was approved back in October. thedjraw noticed a fence around the existing site (Lonsdale and 17) tonight and mentioned it in a previous thread. having seen the work going on myself, i did a little leg work and dug this up...
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thanks for the article. anyone have a render?
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Saw on the news that the roof of the Extra Foods collapsed under the weight of snow.
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in north van?
in coquitlam part of the home depot collapsed - looks like just the front of the store not the actual store roof but the slanted roof at the front |
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I heard that a quarter of the roof collapsed... I wonder if they will fix the roof, or just start construction early?
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...too bad it wasn't the Safeways down the street.... |
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:previous: I guess that is the lazy attitude. Buildings in general need maintenance and up keep and this event is one that is rare enough that people should simply get off their asses for a few minutes and clean the roofs (not to mention the sidewalks and the roofs of their cars before they drive) instead of spending needless money on engineering upgrades.
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:previous: It's not a lazy attitude at all. I'm being a realist. Sidewalks are one thing, but a roof on a building is... Building codes would be made with that in mind - most roofs will not get cleared, therefore they should be built to take extra weight.
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^i doubt that the building codes here are made with the snowfall we've had this last little bit in mind. at least not with it staying for any length of time like it has. we've had rather unseasonable weather.
that said, i don't disagree that they should be constructed with weight in mind. however, we're talking about a building built to older building codes anyways. the Extra Foods in question was built in the late 70's/early 80's (ar least is my guess judging by the looks of the place both inside and out). i'm sure there's people here that remember the Save On Foods at Metrotown's roof collapsing in the late 80's. mind you that was because of the cars on the parking lot. building standards have improved since then because of that incident. |
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Well it is a lot more than one foot, more around 3 feet along the base of the mountains. The Vancouver airport is only 2cm away from breaking its most snow during December record, and seeing how all this snow has fallen in the past week and a half with little chance to melt until now this is an anomaly.
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they can't build houses here to deal with the cold
one week of almost -10 and how many frozen pipes happenned? crazy - nowhere else in Canada would that happen not to mention all the houses built with crappy single glass windows that just blow the cold air in people/builders cheap out - this kind of snow fall is pretty rare - once a decade i think we get a huge dump like this so its justifiable that they don't build houses etc to sustain cold temps and rare snowfalls |
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:previous: Slanted roofs don't clear snow very well unless you have them sloped at a really steep angle. What they're good at though is handling the weight. It's usually the old flat (horizontal) roofs that are a problem.
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it also depends what material slanted roofs are made from as well. a slanted metal roof will clear snow faster than a slanted shingled roof
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