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Corel Centre Facts & Figures - During Construction
- Six-acre excavation
- 23,000 cubic metres of structural concrete (weighing 76,000 tonnes)
- 1,100 steel pilings
- 2,750 tons of reinforcing steel
- 2,400 tons of structural steel
- 250 interlocking precast concrete exterior blocks with roman motif - 27,000 pounds each
- 108,000 square feet of metal siding
- 500,000 concrete blocks
- 43 kilometres of piping (heating, plumbing and sprinkler) - enough to stretch from Kanata to Arnprior!
- 2,500 kilometres of wiring
- 11 acres of drywall
- 3,800 square yards of glass, with 75 tons of glass at main entrance (360 panels)
- 5 acre roof
- 34 roof trusses - weighing up to 105 tons each, each spanning 350 feet
- 22 kilometres of steel refrigeration piping (for rink)
- 300 cubic metres of concrete for rink slab - 6" thick. Only 3/16" variance allowed from one end to the other!
- 83,000 square feet of interlocking paving - 375,000 individual paving stones!
- 600 new trees (ash, linden, Austrian pine, Colorado spruce, English oak and Shubert chokecherry) and 1 1/4 miles of cedar hedge
- 20,000 square yards of sod
- 4 "fish hotels" in the adjacent Carp River
- 17 miles of yellow lines in parking lots - 6,500 spaces and 70 bus spaces
- 18,000 metric tonnes of asphalt on interchange ramps and road
- over 500 workers at the site during peak construction
- 2800 person years of labour during construction
- construction completed six months ahead of original schedule
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