{"id":46262,"date":"2019-10-11T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/the-network\/uncategorized\/the-carleton-university-nicol-building"},"modified":"2024-05-07T15:37:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T19:37:38","slug":"the-carleton-university-nicol-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/the-network\/projects\/the-carleton-university-nicol-building","title":{"rendered":"The Carleton University Nicol Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Carleton University Nicol Building is the vision of the Nicol Family and in essence the late Wes Nicol<strong>*<\/strong>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nicol Building is the home of the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University. This project for AGF Ottawa involved approximately 1535MT of reinforcing steel which is not unusual in our business. &nbsp;What is unusual, and a first for our AGF Team in Ottawa, is our involvement in the installation of &#8220;<strong>BubbleDeck<\/strong>&#8220;. &nbsp;As BubbleDeck was new to us, determining how to price the installation was the first challenge. The best solution&nbsp;was decided together with the General Contractor. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>BubbleDeck<\/em>, simply put, is the patented integration technique of linking air, steel, and concrete in a two-way structural slab. &nbsp;Hollow plastic balls are inserted into the slab and held in place by reinforcing steel. BubbleDeck makes for faster construction as there is virtually no formwork, no downturn beams or drop heads and fast coverage capacity. &nbsp;BubbleDeck is LEED Compliant. &nbsp;1kg of recycled plastic replaces 100kg of concrete. &nbsp;A total of 11,300 bubbles were used, displacing nearly 163 tonnes of concrete. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The shape of the Nicol Building is quite unique which put our production department to the test with the need to fabricate multiple layers of huge radius bars, a three person job. &nbsp;Detailing faced the challenge of designing on the fly as detailing could only start after the BubbleDeck was installed and the site would forward the information to them in order to adjusted the layout and design of the rebar. &nbsp;Detailing had to react quickly to changes along the way.<\/p>\n<p>AGF Ottawa delivered this project on time and on budget. &nbsp;Thank you to all who worked on this site and congratulations on a job well done.<\/p>\n<p>*Wes Nicol was an entrepreneur, lawyer, real estate developer, philanthropist, member of the Order of Canada, and one of Carleton University&rsquo;s finest in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:14px; font-style:italic\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/photo_1-7.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:150px\" title=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/photo_2-7.jpg\" style=\"height:203px; width:360px\" title=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:14px; font-style:italic\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/unnamed-4.png\" style=\"height:250px; width:188px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:14px; font-style:italic\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ligne_bleue_separation_version_e-2237.jpg\" style=\"height:67px; width:400px\" title=\"\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Edificio Nicol de la Universidad Carleton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>El edificio Nicol de la Universidad Carleton es la expresi&oacute;n de la visi&oacute;n de la familia Nicol y, principalmente, del difunto Wes Nicol*. Este edificio alberga la &ldquo;Sprott School of Business&rdquo; de la Universidad Carleton.<\/p>\n<p>\nPara AGF Steel en Ottawa, este proyecto constaba de aproximadamente 1535 t de acero de refuerzo, lo cual no es inusual en nuestro sector. Lo que es inusual, y es una primicia para nuestro equipo local, es nuestra participaci&oacute;n en la instalaci&oacute;n del sistema <strong>&ldquo;BubbleDeck&rdquo;.<\/strong><br \/>\nComo este procedimiento era algo nuevo para nosotros, &iexcl;determinar el precio de instalaci&oacute;n fue nuestro primer desaf&iacute;o! Decidimos con el empresario general efectuar la instalaci&oacute;n en una base temporal y material que nos benefici&oacute; a los dos.<\/p>\n<p>En resumen, &ldquo;BubbleDeck&rdquo; es una t&eacute;cnica patentada de integraci&oacute;n de aire, acero y cemento en una losa estructural en dos niveles. Se introducen esferas de pl&aacute;stico huecas en la losa, las cuales se mantienen en su lugar por medio de acero de refuerzo.<br \/>\nEste sistema permite una construcci&oacute;n m&aacute;s r&aacute;pida, ya que pr&aacute;cticamente no hay que hacer encofrado, ni colocar vigas y tiene una capacidad de recubrimiento r&aacute;pido. &ldquo;BubbleDeck&rdquo; cumple con las normas LEED: 1 kg de pl&aacute;stico reciclado reemplaza 100 kg de cemento. En total, se utilizaron 11 300 esferas, reemplazando casi 163 t de cemento.<\/p>\n<p>La forma del edificio Nicol es &uacute;nica, lo que ha puesto a prueba a nuestro departamento de producci&oacute;n debido a la necesidad de fabricar varias capas de grandes barras radiales. La concepci&oacute;n sobre la marcha fue un desaf&iacute;o, ya que el detallado pod&iacute;a comenzar solamente despu&eacute;s de la instalaci&oacute;n del BubbleDeck. Las informaciones de la obra se le volv&iacute;an a llevar a los detallistas para ajustar la disposici&oacute;n y el tipo de barras de refuerzo. Nuestro equipo de detallistas ten&iacute;a que reaccionar r&aacute;pidamente ante los cambios durante el proceso.<\/p>\n<p>AGF Ottawa realiz&oacute; este proyecto en los plazos previstos y respetando el presupuesto. Gracias a todos los que trabajaron para lograr el &eacute;xito de esta obra y &iexcl;felicidades por este trabajo bien hecho!<\/p>\n<p>* Wes Nicol era un empresario, un abogado, un promotor inmobiliario, un fil&aacute;ntropo, un miembro de la Orden de Canad&aacute; y uno de los mejores representantes de la Universidad Carleton en Ottawa.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/photo_1-8.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:150px\" title=\"\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/photo_2-8.jpg\" style=\"height:197px; width:350px\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carleton University Nicol Building is the vision of the Nicol Family and in essence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":46247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58437,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46262\/revisions\/58437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}