04-11-2011, 08:29 AM
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#1061
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Who knows how much cheaper it could have been done for considering it never went to bid?
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04-11-2011, 08:34 AM
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#1062
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Voted for Kodos
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Quote:
Originally Posted by transplant99
Who knows how much cheaper it could have been done for considering it never went to bid?
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The construction went to bid. The architect design work was not bid - about 10% of the total cost.
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04-11-2011, 08:41 AM
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#1063
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Everything, and i mean everything in the public sector should go to bid...otherwise it is rife for complete and utter corruption. 10%, 2%, or50%...it doesn't matter.
Of course that council has since been replaced so going forward we can expect proper handling of any public expenditures, but the whole thing is leaving a sour taste in the mouths of Calgarians from what I gather. Rightfully so.
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04-11-2011, 08:44 AM
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#1064
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
The construction went to bid. The architect desing work was not bid - about 10% of the total cost.
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Let's not confuse people, the design in large part defines what construction companies can bid to build it. Had the design not been so opulent and obviously challanging then maybe the costing could have been much lower. Sole sourcing Calatrava pretty much meant you were ensuring that an expensive design came out of it because afterall it's been established that for this bridge the style 'is the function' and not the other way around.
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04-11-2011, 09:35 AM
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#1065
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Voted for Kodos
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Quote:
Originally Posted by transplant99
Everything, and i mean everything in the public sector should go to bid...otherwise it is rife for complete and utter corruption. 10%, 2%, or50%...it doesn't matter.
Of course that council has since been replaced so going forward we can expect proper handling of any public expenditures, but the whole thing is leaving a sour taste in the mouths of Calgarians from what I gather. Rightfully so.
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No, not everything should go to bid, it simply costs too much and takes too long for smaller projects.
The city sole sources the design of many projects in this city. And that's the way we want it. It's not just to one engineer, but to many different ones.
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04-11-2011, 09:56 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Meh.
We won a bid where we wrote most of the RFP for the gov't. Funny how that works.
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04-11-2011, 12:17 PM
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#1067
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Quote:
Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
No, not everything should go to bid, it simply costs too much and takes too long for smaller projects.
The city sole sources the design of many projects in this city. And that's the way we want it. It's not just to one engineer, but to many different ones.
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As long as the cost of the design is under $75,000, though. Was the Calatrava design that cheap? Do you know? I doubt it, but I'm not sure how much a bridge design goes for these days.
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04-11-2011, 12:26 PM
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Norm!
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Article on Calatrava and his troubled year
http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/13087_b13087
And V, if I remember right his design fee was slightly below $4 million bucks.
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08-03-2011, 11:20 AM
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#1 Goaltender
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Anyone heard anything about the bridge lately???
The city is doing a pretty good job keeping things hush hush lately... I want my bridge!
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08-03-2011, 11:24 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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I was talking to one of the welding inspectors a while back and he said it was an absolute gong show. None of the welding is done to Canadian standards and a lot of it isn't and easy fix. I haven't heard anything recently but I imagine they are still trying to get it up to code.
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08-03-2011, 11:58 AM
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#1071
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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As a new resident of Sunnyside I demand my fancy-schmancy bridge so I may stroll on it while sipping a nice hot latte.
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08-03-2011, 12:01 PM
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#1072
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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I wonder how much we could get for the scrap metal?
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08-03-2011, 12:19 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Boblobla
I was talking to one of the welding inspectors a while back and he said it was an absolute gong show. None of the welding is done to Canadian standards and a lot of it isn't and easy fix. I haven't heard anything recently but I imagine they are still trying to get it up to code.
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That cheap bid by the Spanish(?) fabricator to build it is looking better and better, isn't it? 
Last edited by Ironhorse; 08-03-2011 at 12:22 PM.
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08-03-2011, 01:01 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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I thought the reason the welding was done in Spain was because the welds were complex and couldnt be completed in Canada?
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08-03-2011, 01:16 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fotze
You don't know the half of the gong show that it is. And absoultely NOT all the welding gongshow can be attributed to the spanish welders.
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Storytime?
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08-03-2011, 01:18 PM
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#1076
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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I believe it is story time. I'm guessing interconnecting welds are bad too, if I'm reading fotze right.
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08-03-2011, 01:28 PM
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#1077
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Originally Posted by fotze
I know nothing.
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08-03-2011, 01:32 PM
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#1078
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My face is a bum!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mykalberta
I thought the reason the welding was done in Spain was because the welds were complex and couldnt be completed in Canada?
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Nope, its because Spain subsidizes their steel industry, so that was the cheapest bid.
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08-04-2011, 01:38 AM
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#1079
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#1 Goaltender
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The thread title makes me laugh every time I see it
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08-04-2011, 01:40 AM
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#1080
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigtime
As a new resident of Sunnyside I demand my fancy-schmancy bridge so I may stroll on it while sipping a nice hot latte.
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Welcome to the hell,
Just kidding, Bottlehouse for flames games is always a good time.
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