From Hockey Rinks to Moose: Visualizing the Scale of Our Parkade Project

The first phase of the acute care tower project includes building a 471-stall parkade. This addition is important to ensure we have enough parking for both staff and patients as the project moves forward, and we have made some great progress so far.

When construction ends in fall 2025, the parkade will have:

• 188,000 gross square feet of building area: Enough space to fit approximately 1.3 Charles Jago Northern Sport Centres (UNBC).
• 8,200 m³ of concrete: Imagine filling about 1,154,286 Extra Large Tim Hortons coffee cups with concrete.
• 32,000 m² of concrete formwork: This could cover the entire surface area of the ice rink at CN Centre in Prince George about 50 times.
• 1,000,000 kg of reinforcing steel: That's about the same weight as 5,195 Canadian black bears!
• 240 m of new electrical duct bank: Equivalent to the length of 4 of Canada's Longest Fishing Rods (located in Houston, BC).
• 30,000-liter storm tank: This tank could hold about 30,000 standard grocery store jugs of maple syrup.
• 22 Continuous Flight Auger (CFA) piles: Laid end to end this would stretch about the length of 85 Canadian moose lined up in a row.
• 57,000 hours worked (as of January 31): That's like watching 22,800 Prince George Cougars hockey games (including Zamboni time).

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