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Pacific House is a proposal for a mixed-use condominium and ground floor commercial tower along Esquimalt Road at Head Street in the community of Esquimalt.
The building's original design envisioned a rise 12-storeys above Esquimalt Road and 15-storeys from its southern-most portion along Wollaston Street. A October, 2019 revision shortnered the height to nine-storeys from the Esquimalt Road frontage and 12-storeys as viewed from Wallaston Street.
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Three townhomes will be situated along the southern edge of the project with frontage towards Wollaston Street.
Two commercial units will front onto Esquimalt Road.
Here's CHEK's coverage of the pedestrian incident; the contractor is claiming that the pedestrian ignored orders:
https://www.cheknews.ca/close-call-for-esquimalt-pedestrian-during-building-demolition-670238/
Remove the pedestrian from the whole incident and you've still got building debris falling into the sidewalk and road, a dust cloud obscuring the vehicle travel lanes, and no flagger to control traffic.
Did the building ignore orders, too?
If there were tape markings on the ground then the dust cloud would have been obligated to abide by them.
Here's CHEK's coverage of the pedestrian incident; the contractor is claiming that the pedestrian ignored orders:
https://www.cheknews.ca/close-call-for-esquimalt-pedestrian-during-building-demolition-670238/
And that's why you don't hire an excavation contractor to do structural demolition! As Rob says it will be interesting to see Work Safe BC's investigation on this one. There should have been a written Demolition Plan stamped by a Structural Engineer for this. Wonder if they had one or not and if they actually followed it?
There also should have been a Traffic and Pedestrian Management Plan especially given the building looks like it was built right to the lot lines. Both of the guys that should have been diverting pedestrians to the other side of the street appear to be totally mesmerized by the excavator and oblivious to the pedestrians their suppose to be protecting until its to late.
And work safe should also be after them for not having or following an Exposure Control Plan. There is no monsoon fogger or fire hose in use to control dust and neither of the two workers are wearing any form of PPE like a respirator or even a paper dust mask.
I believe this is the Worksafe incident report. No other information is available yet.
Injury: Close call
Industry: Construction
Core Activity: Building demolition / Excavator operation
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C.
Date of Incident: 2020-May
A two-storey mixed-use building in an urban setting was being demolished by an excavator when a portion of the upper level collapsed onto the adjacent sidewalk and traffic lane. No injuries were reported.
Posted: 2020-May-29 ID: 2020184390020
Our favourite collapse made it to one of those Facebook fail compilation videos.
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