Construction Crane Disappears From Skyline

Sunday, April 10, 2011 08:02 PM

The construction crane at the new cancer clinic has moved on

Prince George, B.C. - It marked a major milestone when it was erected a little more than one year ago, and its dismantling this weekend marks another one...

The construction crane brought in last February to do the 'heavy lifting' at the site of the B.C. Cancer Agency's $100-million dollar Centre for the North was taken down over the course of yesterday and today. Work continues on the new cancer centre, as it marches towards a 2012 opening, but the crane's capabilities were no longer needed.

Opinion250's photographer captured the piece-by-piece removal of the crane. (The boom, alone, is approximately 74-metres long.) Click on the photo at right for a slideshow of the weekend effort.

The crane, itself, and eight trucks bearing all the rest of the structure were heading off to another project in the Lower Mainland.

Once open, the 5,000m²facility will include a computerized tomography (CT) simulator, a chemotherapy treatment unit with 11 treatment stations, general outpatient clinics, and two linear accelerators in the delivery of radiation therapy treatment.

The pictures below show the site of the Centre for the North before work began last summer on the left and now on the right...