Recycled Materials to Be Part of New RCMP Building

Thursday, April 03, 2008 03:59 AM

Prince George, B.C – The City of Prince George is just a couple of weeks away from rolling out a schematic drawing of the new RCMP building.

The $25 million dollar facility will be built at the corner of 4^th and Victoria, the property which was home to the Good Time Bingo.

Greg Anderson with the City of Prince George says once the schematic is completed, the next step will be a costing exercise “We are aware of the escalation in construction costs, that is part of the reason why we do a costing exercise.”

While the Chances Gaming Centre is the new home for Bingo in Prince George, the building at 4^th and Victoria won’t be coming down right away. Anderson says Good Time still has some equipment in the building and the City is interested in salvaging some of the building materials in that building “There are a lot of glue-lam beams and heavy dimension lumber” says Anderson. The salvaging of those materials for use in the new facility won’t save any dollars as the cost of salvaging offsets the cost of buying new material, but Anderson says it is important to recycle where possible.

Wanting to save those materials means the demolition will have to be done in a “more careful manner” says Anderson. The tender for that demolition will be issued in the next couple of months.

Anderson says construction of the new 60,000 square foot facility (the old one is 35,000 square feet) is expected to start before the end of this year. It will take between 18 months and two years to complete the building.

Previous Story - Next Story

Email |

Print |

Facebook |

Twitter |

Digg |

Del.icio.us

Posted on Thursday, April 03, 2008 03:59 AM in News by 250 News

Return to Home

Comments

Posted by: jonnypg on April 3 2008 6:42 AM

Does the city of PG build this new facility or does the money come from provincial government...just wondering.

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on April 3 2008 6:52 AM

Where is the city going to store those salvage beams and wood?

This exercise is just going to be an expensive PR stunt.

Posted by: bohemian on April 3 2008 7:01 AM

Standard LEED process - not much news here.

Posted by: lunarbase on April 3 2008 7:22 AM

What a great idea ! Then in 20 years when these recycled components have reached their end of lifetime the contractor gets to be paid to come back and replace them. This is why buildings now a days only are usable for 30-40 years versus the 100-200 they should be.

Posted by: Palopu on April 3 2008 7:59 AM

This is the third new Police Station in Prince George in the last 50 years. Do we really need it? Probably not, we could have done renovations on the old one.

Once again lucrative contracts being let.

Most if not all of the costs will be downloaded on PG Taxpayers.

Only in a small minded **Hicktown** would you have such abusive spending.

Posted by: 80shovel on April 3 2008 8:14 AM

I'm all for it being disassembled an moved to the railway museum to be reasembled next to the old bridge.

Posted by: owl on April 3 2008 9:15 AM

Given the LEEDS process, perhaps it is time the City encourages a building materials scrap yard.

As far as I know, when buildings and structures such as KGV, the Cameron Street Bridge etc. are demolished, the demolition contractor is typically able to sell some of the wood for re-use to wrecking yards from where they will be available to builders and designers who are interested in that kind of material for projects typically found in larger urban environments, especially in downtown North America.

Some of the glulam beams in that building are large and curved since that was the signature design of Safeway stores around the 60's. I believe the store in Quesnel still has that appearance. There is also one on Granville in Vancouver that has kept that "look". So, unless they are cut up, they will liekly be expensive to cart to urban America that may have a use.

Just one example of where such wood can go to

http://www.oldgrowthwoods.com

I suspect that the wood in the Cameron Street bridge may actually be a better candidate for such potential use. When the outer layer of creosote preservative is removed, a relatively clear, dry timber should emerge which will have a variety of re-use opportunities and should fetch a relatively good price in that market.

Posted by: Bridge on April 3 2008 9:49 AM

If our Council is really interested in recycling why didnt they give us a plan were the existing building would have additional floors added as it was designed.

The other question is why is the new building being built on some of the most valuable property in the City? I guess the thought is that we can scare some of those bums off 3rd avenue. It would be much to costly to try and help them. The only thing City Hall understands is a bigger police force. They create bigger empires.

Cheers

Posted by: lunarbase on April 3 2008 10:25 AM

Bridge I don't think it will scare any crime element away. The Subway across from the present police station was robbed last week and the library has no shortage of vehicle break-in's and other issues with muggings / bullying.

Posted by: He speaks on April 3 2008 11:06 AM

Wow, What are we going to do with curved gluelam beams, Wasn't that a Safeway store with that old Hat shaped gluelams.

The building has got to be at least 40 years old. Are we really that committed to installing beams that are 40 years old into a building with at least another 50 years of life in it.

Build it out of Concrete, Steel and glass. Leave the wood for the Performing Arts.

Posted by: thereasonableman on April 3 2008 11:22 AM

Salvage the re-usable building materials and sell them to joe public.

Habitat for Humanity has a store down on Queensway and 2nd. They sell recycled building materials.

Why not donate these reusable items to Habitat for Humanity ?

Posted by: Harbinger on April 3 2008 11:37 AM

Ask hizzoner to take a photo of the Cameron Street bridge to China. Better yet, take a whole bunch. And make up little posters saying it is for sale and have him visit all the laundromats in Beijing while he is there and post the for sale signs on the bulletin boards with his phone number, area code too, and see what happens. Just a thought.

Posted by: He speaks on April 3 2008 11:50 AM

OK, mr Resonable.

Does Habitat for Humanity. Take 60 foot gluelams with a big curve in it, that weights in at about 6000 #'s. Do they take Concrete blocks by the pallets.

Do they take used siding with the nails still in them.

If they do, this will be great. It means no tipping fees at the dump.

I tore down an old trailer, it had a mid efficiency furnace, maybe 5 years old. Took it down to them, they won't take it.

Habitat for Humanity, looks great on the surface. But they don't want to collect a whole bunch of stuff, so that they have to take it to the dump.

Posted by: Harbinger on April 3 2008 3:15 PM

While the building is under construction, maybe the local cops can draw straws to see who guards the copper pipe installed while under construction. That is all this town needs. Headlines that read, " Local police station under construction robbed of copper pipes". Could happen.

Posted by: owl on April 3 2008 5:07 PM

Not if we get rid of pennies. The price of copper will plummet.

;-)

Posted by: thereasonableman on April 3 2008 9:11 PM

"But they don't want to collect a whole bunch of stuff, so that they have to take it to the dump."

Good point.