Moncton’s new Downtown Centre is starting take form, and the $104-million project is currently moving along on schedule and on budget.
So far, enough required structural steel has been installed to facilitate 75 per cent of the pre-cast bleechers. In total, 27,000 tons of structural steel will make up the bones of the event centre.
‘We were lucky to have an early spring, we got going with the foundation a little earlier than we planned, so it allowed us to get the concrete work finished up before any structural steel work started,” said Steve Leger of Bird Construction, the company working on the project.
The events centre will be the new home of the Moncton Wildcats hockey team, and will welcome a variety of other events.
The north-west (Main Street) areas of structural steel are ready to see masonry work begin on the exterior walls, and water main installation on the adjacent land has been completed.
Next, the focus will be on the installation of the pre-cast concrete bleechers, and smaller structural steel will continue to be erected around the perimeter while a crane is installing the bleechers.
That work should happen within the next four weeks.
Completing those steps will mark the end of construction phase one.
For the city, its important that residents are kept informed on the progress of the project.
“We want to give residents a chance to go through and live through the process, so we’re gonna have a media site visit every second month, so that people can really see every step,” said Isabelle Leblanc, communications director with the City of Moncton.
“Now its easy, you drive on Main Street and pretty much see the inside, but once it becomes enclosed these visits will be very important.”
The project is scheduled to be completed by July 1 2018, with the official opening in September.
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