Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Fort Hills by the Numbers

The $15-billion Fort Hills oil sands mining project achieved its first oil in early 2018. Over the course of the last four years, approximately 14,000 Local 63 members employed by 20 different CLAC companies worked on this enormous venture.

To capture the full magnitude of the work at Fort Hills, PCL Construction recently shared these statistics about its involvement in the project.

2,169,079 LM of cable laid: The distance from Calgary to Las Vegas
18,030 LM of cable laid in one record-setting day: That’s about 1.6 times longer than the depth of the Mariana Trench
58,201m²of paving: That’s about one-quarter of the parking lot at the West Edmonton Mall
24,509m³of concrete: That compares to 40,000m³ used for the CN Tower
500 modules set: That’s the equivalent of 4.5 city blocks in Calgary
118,096 inches in piping welds: That’s 3.5 times higher than the world’s tallest building, the 160-storey Burj Khalifa in Dubai
110,000 LM of piping laid (the English Channel is 107,000 LM)
9,554 tons of structural steel used: That compares to 7,300 tons used for the Eiffel Tower
9,201m³ of water used in hydrotesting: That’s the equivalent of 3.5 Olympic-sized swimming pools
2,400 LM of wick trench laid: placed end to end, that would fully span San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge (2.1 km)
75 cranes in use at peak: That tops the 62 cranes that were up at one time in Seattle, which was named America’s Crane Capital in 2016
1,845 daily bookings on inbound flights: That’s the equivalent of 13 Boeing 737-800s
1.845 weekly camp bookings: The equivalent of 1,413 rooms at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City

Fort Hills by the Numbers

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