Brentwood Mall
Surrey, BC, Canada

The Brentwood Mall is a shopping complex in Burnaby BC.  The Brentwood redevelopment plan aims to make it a signature destination with an urban feel that will support sustainable lifestyles where people can shop, work, live and play. It will house 102,000 m² of retail space, 46,500 m² of offices, and high-rise residential towers.

Due to a strict construction schedule, concrete pours needed to be large while material had to be moved quickly and easily. PERI designed and supplied a modified version of the new VARIODECK system, a table form system utilizing SRU Walers as main beams. The GT 24 Girder was used as a secondary beam instead of the VT 20; the greater strength of the GT 24 reduced deflections and offered the client greater reutilization opportunities on future VARIO wall projects. At the first level the shoring height was nearly 7 m. The VARIODECK tables were supported by a combination of stacked MULTIPROPS and PERI UP Scaffolding; where other systems may have required changing out one size of prop for another in order to accommodate the varying heights of shoring, the simple stacking of components allowed the same VARIODECK formwork to be used across multiple levels of the structure. This allowed the system to be highly utilized, and provided the customer additional savings in labour and shipping costs.  

For infill areas between tables, the use of small runs of SKYDECK meant that additional plywood, and the high cost of labor associated with custom fabrication, were kept to an absolute minimum. This, coupled with the quick-strike mechanism of the SKYDECK Drophead and the VARIODECK Table solution, allowed for quick cycling between concrete pours.