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This might just be one of the most interesting - and occasionally head-scratching - projects we've taken on in recent years: forty steps of concrete stairs paired with a property line wall that stretches like a marathon runner along a stunning waterfront home in South Surrey. Our mission? Construct a perfectly smooth, 120-foot concrete wall to define the property line, add multiple retaining walls throughout the yard, and build a full run of concrete stairs spanning the entire slope of the lot. The home's modern architectural style called for clean lines and a sleek finish, so we made sure every inch of concrete looked just as polished as the view.

A few months back, we were proud to build a sleek concrete column for the colorful new signpost at Willoughby Town Centre. And as part of the project, we needed to demolish and remove the old column. This wasn't just any concrete chunk. This beast of a block was 6.5 feet deep, 4 feet by 3 feet wide, and made from concrete with a staggering 50 MPa strength rating. For anyone not fluent in concrete-speak, MPa (megapascals) measures how much pressure concrete can handle before it gives in. The higher the MPa, the stronger - and tougher - it is. Now here's the kicker: 50 MPa is seriously over the top for a signpost. To put it in perspective, when the industrial slab for the All Roads Asphalt Plant in Coquitlam (designed to hold a 150-ton oil tank, mind you!) was poured, it only required 35 MPa. That makes this signpost column one unnecessarily tough cookie.

This is what our client, Accurate Mechanical Systems, had to say about our recent precision industrial concrete foundation construction project in Surrey.

Moore & Sons builds a large commercial concrete slab & foundation - as big as half of the NHL hockey arena. Ever wondered how a huge span concrete slab of this size with smooth surface is built without any of our guys leaving their footprints or joint marks? It was one such project that demonstrated how it is done.

Here is a cool short video from our recent commercial structure concrete foundation construction project in Surrey. We’ve just poured a 5 trucks total of concrete (42 cubic meters) to fill this forming work we’ve spent several weeks constructing. This 100' x 78' industrial building foundation is designed to support a 10’ prefab steel building. One thing that makes this project super cool is that we had to be super precise in our forming because the engineering requirements of this structure’s anchor bolt design layout have only 1cm variance, meaning all 64 anchor bolts we are installing can only be off by 1 cm each! In order to comply with this contractual specification, we fabricated custom anchor plates for each of its 12 pilasters. We didn’t stop there. We even enlisted a third-party surveyor to survey and confirm the exact center of all plates to be 100% sure of anchor bolt locations. Oh, by the way, an average 2-story house foundation requires approximately 1/2 as much concrete (20-ish cubic meters), so it was like pouring 2 house foundations all at once.

Did you know Moore & Sons poured approximately 165,000 square feet of concrete in 2023? That's enough concrete to cover the entire floor area of BC Place or equivalent to covering over 10 NHL-sized ice rinks! WOW! That’s A LOT of concrete poured in 2023! Book your free estimate now. We are booking up fast!