SPECIFICATIONS
The Bow is the largest single-tenant office building in Western Canada

• Owned by H&R Reit
• 58 storey tower
• 775 feet (236 metres)
• Site covers the majority of two city blocks
• Includes a north office tower and a south block to contain retail and cultural space
• Two million square feet (sf) of office space
• Each tower floor is either 32,000 or 37,000 sq ft
• Approximately 20,000 light fixtures
• One million square feet of below-grade parking for the public and EnCana
• The underground parking structure will hold 1,360 vehicles. It will also have 420 bicycle parking spots - 320 below grade and 100 above grade. This is three times the amount in Bankers Hall, which has 525 vehicles stalls
• Parkade 20 metres below grade; six floors
• Plus 15 connections to Telus building, Petro-Canada Centre and over 6th Avenue between Centre Street and 1st Street S.E. to connect the north and south blocks

CONSTRUCTION
The making of an icon

• 400,000 cubic metres of excavation; as of November 2007 over 1400 trucks have been on the site to remove earth
• 100,000 cubic metres of high strength concrete
• 39,000 tonnes of structural steel
• 8,000 glazed curtain wall panels; 900,000 sf of glass (equates to 10 CFL playing fields)
• 22 elevator shafts / 44 elevators cabs
• 9,000 tonnes of temporary bracing, which is the steel used to hold the tower up as it's constructed
• Diagrid portion of curtain wall clad coated with intumescent (fire proof) paint
• Each node joint requires 200 pounds of welding rod during fabrication
• Three construction cranes are required for the first tower; the largest of the three cranes can lift 70 tonnes
• After the concrete and steel below-grade footings are in place, a main floor 'umbrella' will be created over the undeveloped parkade and below-grade floors, allowing tower construction to commence immediately

Project Overview

Occupant Experience & Cultural Regeneration