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hat if? It’s human nature to second-guess. We do it when we watch a hockey game—what if he had been in front of the net? We do it when we watch an election—what if he had become prime minister? And we certainly do it when we think about our own lives—what if I had married her? Or not. What if? What if the province had kept pace with infrastructure spending in the 1990s? The Parkland Institute, in a report released in February, came up with one answer. It argued that the legacy of spending cuts made during the Klein era “was a large infrastructure deficit that the subsequent Tory administration had to address at the height of the boom. Had the government spent that infrastructure money sooner, it would have bought Albertans significantly more.” By 2007, the report continues, “there was steady cost escalation for the construction of buildings, roads, bridges and other infrastructure. Alberta’s hot economy meant some public infrastructure projects had few or no tenders bid due to the demand on construction companies.” According to government figures, these factors were ‘adding 10 to 25 per cent per year to project costs.’ “Effectively, during the boom years of 2006-08, increased construction costs meant something approaching $3 billion and possibly as much as $4.8 billion was lost to moreexpensive infrastructure instead of more infrastructure.” The truth is, we’ll never really know. What we do know is that the province’s three-year Capital Plan supports $17.6 billion in infrastructure spending, including $6.6 billion in 2011-12. That’s extremely important for this industry, as Alberta Transportation Minister Luke Ouellette has said that every $1 billion spent on infrastructure translates to 10,000 jobs. In this infrastructure-themed issue, you’ll learn about six important projects, meet some of the key people and companies behind them, and in some cases, learn about the innovations that were used to save clients money and speed schedules. It wouldn’t surprise me if you see some of these projects again in our winter issue—our Top Projects issue. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Top Projects, and to celebrate we plan a gala celebration to recognize this year’s winners. I encourage you to visit www.albertaconstructionmagazine.com to learn more about what we have planned. Be sure to submit project nominations. Yes, you have some time before the deadline, but don’t let that stop you from compiling a list today of projects you may want to enter. Who knows? Your project might be judged a winner. That would be a lot better than thinking months from now, “What if?”

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on the cover: Illustrator Wil Yee’s Escher-like take on infrastructure includes a couple notable Alberta projects—South Health Campus and Edmonton’s New Remand Centre—as well as a few other surprises. Can you spot them?

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Volume 31, Number 2 Published Summer 2011

Cover Story

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infrastructure We profile six important infrastructure projects around Alberta

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Stone walls do not a prison make Pod concept of $568.6 million Edmonton New Remand Centre allows for future expansion By Kelley Stark

All decked out

Precast deck panels help put bridge projects on the fast track By Godfrey Budd

Flowing innovation Fort McMurray sewage pipe project takes advantage of latest horizontal drilling technology By Godfrey Budd

And miles to go

33 kilometres down, 210 left to go on the twinning of Highway 63 By Tricia Radison

The right treatment EllisDon’s formwork system for South Health Campus recognized for innovation

Water roundup

A look at key water and waste water projects to keep pace with population growth

COVER ILLUSTRATION: WIL YEE

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Calgary-based freelancer GODFREY BUDD writes on several key infrastructure projects in this issue. Budd is a veteran writer, contributing many articles for industry magazines and business periodicals on western Canada’s energy industry and Alberta’s construction sector.

DIANE L.M. COOK is a Calgary freelance writer who is a frequent contributor to JuneWarren-Nickle’s Energy Group trade publications, including Oilweek, Oilsands Review and Alberta Construction Magazine. She authors this issue’s Institutional feature on page 26.

AARON PARKER, a fulltime graphic designer at JuneWarrenNickle’s Energy Group’s Edmonton office and also is a frequent photography contributor for Alberta Construction Magazine. Parker is a graduate of Grant MacEwan College and also completed the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology’s Graphic Communications program.

TRICIA RADISON, who contributes several pieces to this issue, is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to Alberta Construction Magazine and other magazines published by JuneWarren-Nickle’s Energy Group. Radison is an avid reader and expert researcher. She lives in Calgary.

KELLEY STARK of Sherwood Park writes this issue’s Infrastructure feature on the Edmonton New Remand Centre. Stark used to work at JuneWarren-Nickle’s Energy Group’s Edmonton office before striking out as a freelancer last year.

WIL YEE is a freelance artist. He studied Fine Arts and Visual Communications at Red Deer College and Alberta College of Art and Design. His artwork can be seen in all sorts of places: from print media to digital, stage to screen, business establishments and just maybe...your home. Yee enjoys dabbling in outdoor sports, martial arts, teaching and sharing a smile and a deep breath.

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Plans call for the replacement of the almost 100-year-old Walterdale Bridge in Edmonton with a structure that looks like this.

Overarching design Sometime in 2013 or 2014, the City of Edmonton plans to replace the Walterdale Bridge, a major link from the south side of the city to the downtown core. City Council gave its approval to the plan in

late April. The existing truss bridge, nearly a century old, will be torn down and replaced with a new structure. The signature design piece would be an arch, as this artist’s rendering shows.

An eye on tomorrow More and more we’ve been hearing talk of another boom looming in the oilpatch, and with that, predictions of a labour shortage. One company that is preparing itself is Calgary-based IMV Projects Inc. The engineering, procurement and construction management firm recently announced the hiring of 100 new employees since the start of the year—bringing the total number of staff at its Calgary head office to nearly 600. “The past two years have been challenging for the global economy and

Alberta’s energy sector is no exception,” IMV president Kevin O’Brien says. “However, during this time, we have worked very hard to position IMV Projects to respond quickly when economic recovery occurs. We believe that the time is now.” The company says it held a job fair in January that brought out 1,000 candidates in a single day. Adds O’Brien, “The job fair was a great way to showcase our company locally, but it is only one aspect of our ongoing talent acquisition strategy.”

Table of Contents Safety training gets a boost with new facility . . . . . . . . . . . .

Keeping up on the web . . . . .

City Centre Airport land redevelopment plans take off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Nine things to know about the new EPCOR Tower . . . . . .

$500-million Kearl project win . . . . . . . . . . .

A tall order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Look for “contained” pressure among the trades . . . . . . . . . . 17

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nuts & bolts “ Every billion dollars invested in infrastructure creates about

Safety training gets a boost with new facility

construction jobs.”

— Luke Ouellette, Alberta Transportation Minister, in a speech about infrastructure spending at the 14th annual Alberta TransportationCEA-ARHCA Transportation Conference

Keeping up on the web

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The Alberta Laborers’ Training Trust Fund celebrated its new facility with an open house in May.

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The Alberta Laborers’ Training Trust Fund has trained more than 3,600 members since moving into its new training facility last October. In 2009, Laborers’ International Union of North America Local 92 spent more than $3 million to purchase a 33,000-square-foot warehouse at 12150 - 154 Street, Edmonton. The local then spent another $1 million to renovate the warehouse to allow for three classrooms, including a computer lab, office space and plenty of hands-on training space. A variety of safety training is offered—Oil Sands Safety Association fall protection, for example—as well as skill courses that help members advance in the industry such as operation of small tools, scaffolding and refractory helper, first aid, and flag person training. In addition, the Alberta government has certified the training fund to teach asbestos abatement. While the investment means an expanded training repertoire, the bottom line is that it also helps ensure that workers are safe on their jobs each day and can come home to their families. The trust fund has served the membership of Laborers’ International Union of North America Local 92 since 1977.

In case you missed it, Alberta Transportation has a new web platform that displays information on highly visible highway projects. While not a comprehensive listing of all highway projects in the province—that may follow in the future—the Alberta Provincial Highway Projects webpage allows you to click on a geographic area of interest on the map to view all major projects in that area. In some cases, that includes projects that are planned. If you choose to use the interactive map version, there are two ways to get a listing of all the projects for each area. One method is to select

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the “Choose a Highway” button on the top left corner and choose projects from the drop-down menu. The other method is to select the “zoom in” button on the top right corner of map. On the enlarged map, you can scroll horizontally and vertically to find an icon that represents a project you are interested in. Each icon on the map represents a particular project. Click on any icon to get information on that project’s location, schedule and key contacts and to access supporting PDF documents. You’ll find the site at www.transportation.alberta. ca/projects.

nuts & bolts GRAPHIC: KCAP ARCHITECTS & PLANNERS

GRAPHIC: BNIM GRAPHIC: PERKINS+WILL

Renderings from the five companies’ proposals.

which team it will use to develop a master plan for development—not necessarily just the design that team submitted. Because the land is centrally located and so close to the downtown core, you can be sure that housing will play a key role in the master plan as the city looks for ways to combat suburban sprawl. The five teams that submitted plans are: • BNIM, from Kansas City, Missouri • Foster + Partners, from London, England • KCAP Architects & Planners from Rotterdam, Netherlands • Perkins+Will, Vancouver • Sweco International AB, Stockholm, Sweden

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In about a year we should have a much better idea of what will happen to the land now occupied by City Centre Airport in Edmonton. Five teams have been short-listed from 33 international submissions proposing how the land should be redeveloped. The teams were asked to take into account these seven principles: Planning, design, the ecological footprint, infrastructure, family housing, open space and technology. For the next year or so, a city committee will study public input about the proposals and will consider such things as how roads, subdivisions, land uses and green space amenities would work best in the land that’s available. Then the city will choose

GRAPHIC: FOSTER + PARTNERS

CITY CENTRE AIRPORT LAND REDEVELOPMENT PLANS TAKE OFF

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nuts & bolts

$500-million Kearl project win U.S.-based Chicago Bridge & Iron Company, which engineers and constructs energy infrastructure projects, has landed a contract with Imperial Oil Limited for more than $900 million of work at the Kearl oilsands project. The deal includes $500 million of incremental work releases booked before this year. Kearl is located 70 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, Alta., and is jointly owned between Imperial Oil and ExxonMobil Canada. It will be one of Canada’s largest

open-pit mining operations with regulatory approval for up to 345,000 barrels a day of production. Chicago Bridge & Iron provides fully integrated specialty engineering, procurement and construction services. The work includes a bitumen extraction plant and tank farms, as well as the design, supply and construction of additional storage vessels, all of which are expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2012.

Nine things to know about the new EPCOR Tower PHOTO: CHARLES HOPE

Later this year the first tenants will begin moving into the EPCOR Tower, the newest office tower in downtown Edmonton in two decades. Here are nine things to know about the building: 1. There are four main elements to the building: a four-storey underground parkade, a “podium” area that will have retail shops, the tower that houses offices and the “crown,” the area atop the tower that bears the name “EPCOR.” 2. Construction started in 2008 and will be completed ahead of schedule. 3. The tower occupies a 9.1-acre site. 4. The raft slab, which provides the foundation for the building, took 22 hours to pour and is believed to be the largest continuous concrete pour in the city’s history. 5. The tower will have 16 elevators. 6. Future plans for Station Lands, the name of the downtown area where the EPCOR Tower was built, call for three other buildings. 7. The building is targeting Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold designation. 8. The north LRT line that will eventually connect Churchill Station with the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology was constructed underneath the site. 9. It’s the first new high-rise building in downtown Edmonton in more than 20 years.

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Twenty-five per cent of the world’s future tallest building projects will be based within the Middle East region—specifically Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. That’s according to the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a not-for-profit group that specializes in—you guessed it—tall buildings. In fact, there’s so much interest in the subject of tall buildings in that part of the world—800 tower projects are expected to be finished over the next decade— that there’s a Middle East tall buildings summit scheduled in Qatar from June 19-22. The event will highlight sustainable, cultural, structural, architectural and financial trends related to designing and constructing vertical structures that shape the Middle Eastern skyline. The tallest building in the world is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai at 828 metres.

Look for “contained” pressure among the trades The top executive of at least one major oilfield services and supply company sees some upward pressure in rates among the building trades as a result of renewed activity in Alberta’s energy. But the exec, Flint Energy Services Ltd. president and chief executive officer Bill Lingard, doesn’t expect a repeat of what we saw during the energy boom of just a few years ago. “I think it is going to be contained,” he said. “I think the industry in general sees it can’t go at the rates that it used to. You might be looking at three or four per cent inflation. It’s not going to be the big inflation that we used to see.” Flint also is in better shape than it was the last time there was a big ramp

up in oilsands activity, Lingard told the Daily Oil Bulletin, a sister publication to Alberta Construction Magazine. While there will be shortages of certain critical skills, Flint has excellent capacity to bring in temporary foreign workers, he said. The company already has a lot fully trained and qualified to work in Canada and will continue to bring in workers from the Philippines, India and other places and has recruiting channels well opened and the process with the government is better. Said Lingard: “We have been through it several times and have been able to scale up and down as we need to on some of those critical shortage trades.”

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AROUND CANADA A portion of downtown Vancouver is about to get a $750-million makeover in the form of a development project that includes a new national headquarters for TELUS.

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum standard and a 44-storey residential tower built to the LEED Gold standard.

About 1,000 employees of the telecommunications provider will work in the new building once it is completed in 2015. Construction will start this fall. Called TELUS Garden, the million-square-foot project will see almost the entire block of prime downtown real estate rebuilt into what TELUS calls “one of the most technologically and environmentally advanced sites of commerce, employment and living in the world.” The project consists of a 22-storey office tower that will be built to the 2009

The new headquarters will include 10,000 square feet of green roofs that will provide organic produce for local restaurants, two elevated roof forests, LED lighting on the western facade projecting programmable coloured images onto fritted glass, and media

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the French government has awarded to SNC-Lavalin to build an airport terminal in Mayotte, a French island in the Indian Ocean. Source: SNC-Lavalin

7,000 Number of new construction workers forecast to be needed in Saskatchewan between now and 2013. Source: Construction Sector Council report, Construction Looking Forward: An assessment of construction labour markets for Saskatchewan from 2011−2019

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walls where cultural events such as symphony concerts can be broadcast to the public. Henriquez Partners Architects is the architect.

Freedom Tower’s Canadian connection ADF Group Inc., a steel structure maker based in Terrebonne, Que., has received US$23 million in new orders for projects at the Freedom Tower in New York City. This is the new skyscraper under construction at the World Trade Center site. The deal includes the design and engineering of connections, fabrication and delivery to site of additional heavy steel built-up components for the project.

Size (in square feet) of St. Joseph’s Health Care’s new mental health care building now under construction adjacent to Parkwood Hospital in London, Ont. The project is a joint venture between EllisDon Corporation and Fengate Capital Management Ltd., with EllisDon also providing design build services. Source: Infrastructure Ontario

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The resurrection of Calgary’s East Village is in full swing with a recent announcement that a second mixed-use development is in the works. Led by FRAM Building Group with support from Slokker Canada Corp. and Tricon Capital Group Inc., the $300-million retail and residential development is still in the planning stages, as is another $300-million development by Embassy/Bosa of Vancouver. While no firm decisions have been made on what the retail components will look like, it’s safe to say that Calgarians may see something a little different. FRAM, Slokker and Tricon plan 9001,000 residential units, and about 40,000 square feet of retail and commercial space on four parcels of land in East Village. The developer, based in Ontario, is in the process of reviewing focus group research to determine exactly what will be done. But the company has done some interesting things in the past that provide a glimpse of what we might see in the formerly downtrodden area.

Live/work units reminiscent of the days when the proprietor lived behind the store are one example. FRAM constructed 18 of the units in Port Credit, a development on the shores of Lake Ontario. Home and business “ T he se were t h re e-store y tow nhomes with a residential side and a 500-square-foot storefront,” says Fred Serrafero, vice-president of developm e nt a nd c on s t r u c t ion , F R A M Building Group, from his office in Mississauga, Ont. “About half the people are truly live/work, where the husband or the wife has their own little business and are just commuting up and down the stairs.” Others choose to live in the units and rent the storefronts, or to use the storefronts and rent out the residential space. Another option under exploration is the creation of smaller live/work units for artists. The units would include

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Historic Gastown, Vancouver's oldest neighbourhood, has successfully blended retail and residential development. With its blend of restaurants, studios and eclectic shops, Gastown is a favourite destination for tourists and locals alike and could offer clues to what a redeveloped East Village section of Calgary may be like one day.

studio space, small living areas, and possibly display and retail space. “We have different ideas, different concepts,” Serrafero says. “These have been done in Toronto, Vancouver and other places so they’ll be nothing radically new. We just need to see if they should be part of the overall plan for East Village.” Between them, the two developers have envisioned about 90,000 square feet of retail in their phase one development plans, but East Village has about 300,000 square feet of retail overall. Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC) is the organization responsible for overseeing revitalization of the area. Susan Veres, its senior manager, marketing and communications, says: “You’ll find that both developer partners are taking a proactive approach to the retail in phase one that will provide convenience services and retail amenities that allow residents to live here comfortably. CMLC has other Alberta Construction Magazine | 23

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parcels of land that have a heavier retail orientation.” Veres says that generally, an eclectic approach is expected to be taken for retail parcels to give East Village a character similar to Vancouver’s Gastown or Yaletown, or Ontario’s Unionville, all of which include memorable shopping and entertainment venues. “We want it to look as though the village has grown up over time; that it’s not just put together in one year,” Veres says. That doesn’t it mean it will actually grow slowly. “We just don’t want to have it so prescribed in its tenant mix or its architectural design that it looks like the same thing repeated over and over again,” she explains. “The architecture should embrace and inspire, and not look like it just sprung out of the ground. This will be an urban

TOP: People shopping at a farmers’ market in Yaletown, Vancouver. LEFT: An artist’s rendering of a development in East Village.

village of mixed character and mixed retail, and this is the placebrand of East Village.” That could mean a block of theatres, coffee shops and offerings such as unique urban furniture stores. On Eighth Avenue, an area adjacent to the National Music Centre on the site of the former Le Méridien King Edward Hotel that includes several significant heritage properties that could be incorporated into the area’s new look and retail mix, there will likely be what Veres calls a “restaurant-café-microbrewery type of environment.” Fresh research CMLC had retail market research done for East Village in 2007-08 and used that information to create its master plan for the area. Now it’s set to conduct a refresh of that work to test whether the market conditions

apparentthen, pre-recession, still apply today, so it can build a strong business case to potential development partners. CMLC is work ing with FR AM, Slokker, Tricon and Embassy/Bosa on the retail strategy, as well as on a strategy for the creation of a discovery centre that will serve as both a sales centre and a showcase for the CMLC’s vision for East Village. The first residential occupancies for the two new developments are slated for the third quarter of 2013. Residential sales efforts are to begin by early next year. As the developers plan their retail components, the intent is to do something different in the area, but the most important aspect is to give people what they want. “We’re the beast from the east,” Serrafero says with a laugh before going on more seriously. “We are new in town, so we’re all ears. We need to understand.”

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grey days ahead Aging population points to need for up-to-date affordable living options By Diane L.M. Cook

This year, Canada’s baby boom generation will start to turn 65. That means over the next 20+ years, Alberta’s senior population will more than double. Many of these seniors will need or want to live in seniors’ living facilities. So is the Alberta residential construction industry ready for this major influx? “Alberta currently has over 370,000 seniors, about one in 10 Albertans,” according to a report by Alberta’s Demographic Planning Commission. “In 10 years, Alberta can expect to have 555,000 seniors. In less than 20 years, the number of seniors in Alberta will double. In 2031, when the baby boom generation 26 | Summer 2011

has reached age 65, Alberta is projected to have 880,000 seniors. One in five Albertans will be a senior.” These figures clearly indicate that current, affordable housing for Alberta’s seniors will not meet future requirements. The Alberta Senior Citizens’ Housing Association (ASCHA) is an advocate for seniors’ living choices in the province, representing approximately 60 per cent of the seniors’ living options in Alberta; its membership serves over 25,000 seniors. Living options include housing for seniors with basic meal and housekeeping services, additional services through home care and 24-hour health care staffing.

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Medican General Contractors builds seniors’ facilities that include features like bathtubs that accommodate older people and safety grab bars. Building designs are meant to be functional to exceed seniors’ special health and social requirements. Interestingly, Medican started as a concrete company.

Jim Hubbard, president of ASCHA, says: “Ever-increasing pressure and expectations are being placed on ASCHA’s members to provide accommodation, support and health care for Alberta’s seniors. As the seniors’ population grows faster than it has in recent history, it is time for industry using frontline expertise to provide leadership in creating choices for seniors to age in the right place.” One of ASCHA’s members, Lifestyle Options Ltd., a division of the Carrington Group of Companies, maintains that baby boomers don’t want to go to nursing homes. Carrington, which has provided quality, affordable housing while at the same time

providing opportunities for socializing and leisure for Edmonton’s seniors since 1996, says its philosophy of care is prevention with daily participation in activities by focusing on the strengths and capabilities of each individual in meaningful life experiences through active lifestyles. Lifestyle Options’ apartment-style residences are located in Riverbend, Terra Losa and Whitemud. Amenities include grand and private dining rooms, exercise and fitness rooms, a general store, libraries, computer rooms, beauty salons and gardens—just to name a few. All suites are handicapped accessible and include a walk-in shower or bathtub.

All of Lifestyle Options’ residences include a health care component, with some residences offering a secure dementia unit, health and wellness services, home support services and companion care. Another ASCHA member, Continuum Health Care Holdings Ltd. (CHCH), is an Alberta-based care provider that has been specializing in the operation of supportive and assisted living facilities since 1992. CHCH owns and operates seniors’ living facilities in Olds, Lethbridge, Wetaskiwin, Ponoka and Camrose, with a total of 400 suites. Seniors’ living facilities in Alberta Construction Magazine | 27

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Sunrise Village facilities around Alberta offer apartmentstyle suites that are barrier-free to allow easy movement for seniors. This is Sunrise Village Wetaskiwin.

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safety, and doors are three feet wide and have lever-style door handles. Builders of today’s seniors’ living facilities include many on-site amenities that a generation ago didn’t have. Not only are CHCH’s seniors’ living facilities located close to hospitals, but some of CHCH’s residences’ on-site amenities include elegant dining rooms, multi-purpose lounges, hair salons, tea rooms, green spaces, fitness rooms with user-friendly exercise equipment, hydrotherapy rooms and foot care spaces. Medican General Contractors, originally started as a concrete company in Medicine Hat in 1974, graduated to building seniors’ assisted living facilities in 1999. Medican is working in partnership with Extendicare and the Brenda Strafford Foundation to ensure that the design and

functionality of their residences meets or exceeds seniors’ special health and social requirements. “We are proud to play a part in bringing affordable, supportive living units to the public,” says Harvey Mueller, vicepresident of construction for Medican. “Medican has played a pivotal role in constructing these quality facilities for organizations like Extendicare, and we take great pride in our workmanship and ability to deliver on time and on budget.” Medican’s seniors’ assisted living facility construction projects include Extendicare Fairmont Park in Lethbridge with 140 suites, which opened in February, and Extendicare Michener Hill in Red Deer with 280 suites, which opened in September 2010. Currently under construction are Okotoks Tudor Manor with 149 suites, expected to open in January 2012, and Extendicare Eaux Claire in Edmonton with 180 suites. Medican is also general contractor for the extension of Medicine Hat South Country Village, Heritage Heights, with an additional 40 suites, which is expected to be complete in August. Prior to the expansion, this was a 90-suite residential building. The seniors’ living facilities that Medican constructs are handicap accessible, which includes barrier-free suites and wide doors. Special features in the bathroom include sink taps and bathtubs that accommodate seniors, raised toilets and safety grab bars. Photo: CHCH

High River and Drayton Valley are scheduled to open in the near future. “The staff at CHCH’s seniors’ living facilities take the function and design of the buildings and use it to enhance the lives of the residents by promoting an atmosphere of wellness,” says Stacey Dick, communications manager at CHCH. CHCH has built a model for its seniors’ living facilities called Sunrise Village. “Sunrise Village residences have been purpose-built for seniors,” Dick says. Apartment-style suites are generously sized and barrier-free to allow easy movement for seniors who use wheelchairs or walkers. Bathrooms include raised toilets, walk-in showers, adjustable-height showerheads and safety grab bars. Hallways are wide and have handrails for support and

Sunrise Village Lethbridge.

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In terms of amenities, the Extendicare facilities include spas with soaker tubs, food service, family dining rooms and bistros. The Heritage Heights facility in Medicine Hat includes a library, fitness centre, games room and multi-purpose room. Amenities differ from one assisted living facility to the next. As each baby boomer reaches retirement age, some will continue to live in their primary residences, some will move in with family and some will move out of the province to their retirement destination. But for the baby boomers who choose to stay in Alberta and live out their retirement years, residential construction companies that build seniors’ living facilities will have their work cut out for them as they try to build enough facilities for this burgeoning population group.

Amenities The days when senior citizens lived in “old folks’ homes” are long gone. Today’s seniors facilities are likely to have the following: • Wide doors and hallways for easy access. • Handrails for support and safety. • Doors with lever-style door handles that are easy to open. • Walk-in showers with adjustableheight showerheads and safety grab bars. • On-site amenities such as elegant dining rooms, multi-purpose lounges and fitness rooms with user-friendly exercise equipment.

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growth Investing in infrastructure remains a critical strategy for the province in ensuring that Alberta can handle future growth. And now, the province says, is the time to spend. In February, the provincial government unveiled a three-year capital plan calling for $17.6 billion in funding for health facilities, schools, post-secondary institutions, water systems, roads and municipal infrastructure. “It makes sense to keep taking advantage of stable construction prices and gain good value from the marketplace ahead of the economy heating up again,” Lloyd Snelgrove, minister of finance and enterprise and president of Treasury Board, said at the time. “Continuing to build infrastructure not only keeps people working, these investments are needed to deliver services that are extremely important to Albertans, and we have to be ready for the next decade of economic activity.” In the next 26 pages, Alberta Construction Magazine features several key infrastructure projects:

table of contents Stone walls do not a prison make . . . 32 All decked out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flowing innovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . And miles to go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The right treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Water roundup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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• The Edmonton New Remand Centre, a $568.6-million project that will make it the largest remand centre in Canada. • Precast bridge deck panels that are being used to speed high-profile highway projects around Alberta. • How the construction industry used a page from the energy industry technology playbook to complete a forcemain project in the Fort McMurray, Alta., region. • Efforts to twin Highway 63, sometimes referred to as the highway of death. • A first-of-its-kind formwork system used on Canada’s largest single infrastructure project. • Key water and waste water treatment projects. Ensuring that Alberta’s infrastructure can adequately handle future growth has never been more important. It will take on even greater importance if predictions of the looming boom materialize. Alberta Construction Magazine | 31

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Stone walls do Pod concept of $568.6 million Edmonton New Remand Centre allows for future expansion By Kelley Stark

An artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rendering of the Edmonton New Remand Centre on the northwest side of the city.

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We’ve all read about how much Alberta’s population has grown in recent years and the strain that growth has placed on the province’s infrastructure. Highway and road improvement projects will keep countless construction crews busy this summer. So will work on schools, hospitals and other public facilities. One notable example: The Edmonton New Remand Centre. At nearly $568.6 million, it’s one of the largest public construction projects in western Canada. The prime consultant is Edmonton-based ONPA Architects. Interestingly, ONPA was also involved as prime consultant on the existing downtown Remand Centre. When completed in October 2012, the centre will be the largest remand facility in the country. Some details: • At 16 hectares, the site is about the size of 27 Canadian Football League football fields. • The building will be about 60,000 square metres. • About 2,600 piles will be used to complete the centre. • Approximately 643,500 square feet of reinforced concrete block is being used in the construction. • The structure uses 23,400 cubic metres of reinforced structural concrete (above grade). Built in 1979, the current Remand Centre was designed to accommodate 332 men and women (and opened with a population of 388). The centre can no longer provide adequate facilities to care for and control the expanding population of inmates from the northern Alberta area. The new remand centre, on the north side of Edmonton, next to the Edmonton Young Offender Centre at 127 Street and 186 Avenue, has room to grow. Unlike jails or prisons of the past, the centre relies heavily on the pod concept to house prisoners. The space will include an administration building, a health care pod, a segregation pod and five general population pods. The general population pods are divided into four general living units that can each house 288 inmates. More pods The total centre will be able to house 1,944 inmates in 976 cells. The design allows for the future addition Alberta Construction Magazine | 33

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The remand centre design incorporates a series of pods.

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Not surprisingly, sustainability and energy efficiency are important components of the project. The centre is being built to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver standards. According to the project’s mechanical engineering firm, Hemisphere Engineering Inc., each pod has its own mechanical plant. That way, they can operate independently of one another. Two-fold advantage The advantage of the pod concept is twofold, explains Doug Cargill, principal

mechanical engineer at Hemisphere, who is also a LEED-accredited professional. First, there is an advantage from a system redundancy perspective. “Instead of reliance on a single plant [either heating or cooling], there are multiple plants that mitigate the risk of a single component failure paralyzing the facility,” he says. “Secondly, when a centralized plant becomes too large, the education/training requirements of the building operators become too costly for an organization to financially support. In addition, the staff must be on-site 24-7.

The ultimate capacity for the new remand centre is 2,800, making it the largest remand centre in Canada.

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of another three housing pods without disrupting operations, should the need arise. This would bring the ultimate capacity to just over 2,800 beds. As you can imagine, the construction of a remand centre poses challenges that construction companies do not normally face. Some were logistical. Some were financial. Some were a combination of the two. “How can we manage the costs of six identical buildings when the start date of the last building is 12 months after the first building?” asks Yanick Parent, project manager for Stuart Olson Dominion Construction Ltd., as he explains that each building costs $45 million and takes almost two years to complete. Implementing numerous smallertender packages based on the project needs and pre-purchasing key materials and equipment solved this problem. The identical buildings are being built simultaneously, though they are not all at exactly the same stage. It also doesn’t hurt that the labour force on this project is over 600 people. Another challenge the project team had to overcome dealt with the question of security. Again, a remand centre is not like a regular office building. “In partnering with our prime consultant, ONPA, we implemented a detention wall system that houses the electrical and mechanical systems needed to operate the facility, thus modularizing the cell areas,” Parent explains.

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“With smaller plants, the provincial requirements are much less as the system complexity simply isn’t there. This provides a manpower savings for the owner-operators.” Cargill expects noticeable energy savings (see sidebar on page 37). “We are hoping for a 50 per cent reduction in natural gas and electricity consumption for space heating and ventilation over what one would see in a traditionally designed facility,” he says. Another interesting aspect of the new remand centre is that it is based around a video court and video visitation model. It is designed to decrease the amount of travel for an inmate and visitors. That should lessen the centre’s carbon footprint. “Inmates will visit from teleconferencing terminals located in their living unit and members of the public will visit from teleconferencing terminals located at an off-site public visitation centre,” says Ryan Cromb, director of communications for the Solicitor General and Public Security. Inmates will be responsible for checking their visiting schedules at kiosks in the units, preparing themselves for the visit and sitting down at the visiting station at the pre-arranged time. “There will be no need to wait to be escorted to a shared visiting area,” Cromb says . “Visits will not be delayed by operational issues such as cease movements or high traffic within the

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infrastructure centre. Inmates will not have to wait to move as a group and will be able to terminate their visits early if desired without having to wait to be escorted back to their living unit.” Cromb says planners “used much input from frontline staff to improve operations and increase the effectiveness of the infrastructure.” E ac h gener a l l iv i ng u n it w i l l contain a fresh air room, exercise rooms, meal service facilities, program rooms, video visitation stations, inmate information kiosks, televisions and telephones. Natural lighting will be plentiful. “Cells will have bunks on the back wall, instead of on a side wall, as is currently the case,” Cromb says. “This makes it easier for staff to visually check that inmates are OK, and also,

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infrastructure this configuration creates more f loor space in cells.” Staff needs were also taken into consideration. The central administration building includes a lounge, a workout room, a quiet room, a cafeteria, a kitchen, a courtyard and a deck. Each living unit also has an attached of f ice-brea k area w it h a kitchenette for workers. In the administration building, there are educational and training areas for correctional officers. This consists of a training room, a muster room with auditorium-style seating and a computer room. There is even a mock living cell that comes outfitted with video recorders for ongoing tactical practice exercises. Cargill, the engineer at Hemisphere, has worked on prison projects before. “When I worked for a previous firm, I had spent five years on the North Slave Correctional Facility project in Yellowknife,” he says. “In addition, I have worked on numerous RCMP detachments.” That past experience helps.“The largest aspect of a prison project that one has to be cognizant of is the preservation of the safety of staff and inmates,” he emphasizes. “Components cannot be installed that could be used to harm others or harm the individuals themselves. This is accomplished through the use of fasteners, fixtures, equipment and surfaces that resist vandalism and tampering and cannot be removed without the use of specialized equipment and tools. “For instance, the toilets and sinks within the cells—called a “Combi unit”—are designed to w it hstand 5,000 pounds of force without permanent def lection and damage. And the sprinkler heads cannot be used as a hanging point for suicide, as they break away with a relatively small force.” While the technical aspects of the project have been challenging, Cargill says what has made this project different than others he’s worked on centres around people. From the owner to the design team to the construction crew, “there are so many passionate individuals that love what they do. It is truly an honour to be working on the project.”

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All decked out Precast deck panels help put bridge projects on the fast track By Godfrey Budd

Precast bridge deck panels are being used to help fast track construction on Edmonton’s massive interchange project at Anthony Henday Drive and Stony Plain Road. Although a design/build/procurement process that was specially developed for the ring road project is being credited with helping to speed things up, the precast panels that are being installed on the $170-million project’s seven bridge structures are also making a difference. 38 | Summer 2011

“If we used cast-in-place, we would have needed more time, as it would have been more dependent on the weather,” says Aamer Shakoor, a senior construction engineer with Alberta Transportation. “The timeline could have been an extra year or more. This is a fast-track project and we need to have it completed by October 14.” The project replaces the current intersections, which include traffic lights at (westbound) Stony Plain Road and at

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with the seven new bridge structures— all while continuing to accommodate traffic flows. Intersections at other locations along the ring road, including Callingwood, Lessard and Cameron Heights, are also expected to be free of traffic lights by the October deadline. These intersections are all being converted to free-flow interchanges, but, on these, all the bridge deck sections used cast-in-place concrete, Shakoor says.

Although precast bridge deck panels have rarely been used in Alberta, they are used often in the United States, especially for bridge repair and rehabilitation projects. “They minimize traffic disruption, which can be minimized even further by doing much of the work at night,” Shakoor says. Precast deck panels were also used for upgrades on the Whistler Highway shortly before the Vancouver Winter Olympics. More recently, they have been used for interchanges around the Port Mann Alberta Construction Magazine | 39

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(eastbound) 100 Avenue. The traffic lights, which have been in place at these intersections on Anthony Henday Drive since 1990, are a source of major bottlenecks during rush hour. Construction on the project began in the spring of 2009, and includes the repaving and widening of three lanes in both directions of 5.6 kilometres of Anthony Henday Drive, repaving of about two kilometres of both 100 Avenue and Stony Plain Road, along

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A closeup of a precast deck panel (left photo) in place before concrete is poured. A view from underneath the Stony Plain Road bridge (right photo) over the Anthony Henday ring road.

Bridge. “Precast deck panels are often used in B.C.,” says Jay Manton, construction manager for the Kiewit Management Co. and PCL Construction Management Inc. joint venture. There are two main ways to build with precast bridge deck panels. One, sometimes called total precast, is to use fairly thick panels with plenty of structural heft, typically with asphalt paving on top, and a waterproof membrane between the precast panels and the asphalt. The other involves using thinner panels in conjunction with a cast-in-place poured concrete overlay. The bridge deck panels used on the Anthony Henday/ Stony Plain Road interchange bridges are of the latter type. They measure three metres by 2.5 metres by 90 millimetres, Manton says. For this project, he says, the cast-inplace concrete is poured to a thickness of 200-250 millimetres onto the precast panels. Next, the waterproof membrane is applied, and the deck is then paved with about 80-millimetres’ depth of asphalt. Both systems have the advantage of reduced dependency on good weather, reduced site time, work hazards and numbers of workers on site, and, perhaps most important of all, no need for extensive bridge formwork structures. 40 | Summer 2011

Lafarge manufactured the precast concrete girders for the project. “The slabs or bridge deck panels can be seen as primarily a stay-in-place forming system,” says Don Zakariasen, director of marketing at Lafarge Canada Inc. “Although the geometry and deck slopes for drainage can be complicated, a full precast system could potentially deliver more efficiency and durability.” He says that Lafarge’s Ductal, which has a super-high strength-to-weight ratio, could likely be used successfully for re-decking steel bridges. “It would avoid a huge amount of extra dead weight,” he says. The total precast approach was used recently for Dunvegan Bridge, which spans the Peace River in northern Alberta. “It had been a very old cast-in-place with a crown in the middle. When precast was used to refurbish the bridge, the precast was joined in the middle, with a crown in the middle,” says Bill LeBlanc, a senior engineer with Armtec Ltd., which provided the precast panels for the Anthony Henday/Stony Plain Road interchange. “A lot of potential” A total precast bridge deck panel system was also used at a Glenmore Trail interchange in Calgary. “The precast panels were a full nine inches in thickness, and spanned the width of the bridge, about

40 or 50 feet. There’s a lot of potential in future for total precast,” says LeBlanc, who adds, “A total precast approach can get the job done faster.” The method with thin bridge deck panels and a cast-in-place concrete overlay that is being used on the Stony Plain Road interchange does not come entirely without risk. One of the benefits of using the method, it is hoped, is that Alberta Transportation will have a chance to assess how well the system performs under Alberta’s climate conditions, Shakoor says. One concern about using cast-in-place concrete above the precast deck panels is the risk of cracks reflecting through the cast-in-place above joints between precast panels. “It could lead to water and salt getting into the cast-in-place that’s been reinforced with steel,” LeBlanc says. Reg Ball, senior project manager for AECOM Canada Ltd., is philosophical about the lack of literature on how well the precast deck panel system used for the ring road interchange at Stony Plain Road will hold up over time in Edmonton’s harsh climate. Noting that precast deck panel systems have a relatively short history—only 10-15 years—in the warmer United States, he says: “Whenever you use innovative techniques, you’re extending the boundary. You have a good idea how well it will perform, but you don’t know for sure.”

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FLOWING innovation Fort McMurray sewage pipe project takes advantage of latest horizontal drilling technology

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By Godfrey Budd

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Two of the main components of the Forcemains Systems Project in Fort McMurray, Alta.,—the installation of 8.4 kilometres of large-diameter sewer forcemain and the use of current oil and gas horizontal directional drilling (HDD) technology to drill twin boreholes that run beneath the bottom of the Athabasca River—were, on the face of it, a straightforward infrastructure upgrade. Perhaps. But the $45-million project was the focus of an article last year in Trenchless International—the official publication of the International Society for Trenchless Technology—and was recognized as Northwest Trenchless Project of the Year by the North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT). As well, the project received an Award of Merit from the Consulting Engineers of Alberta (CEA). The citation for the CEA award praised the use of “innovation including state-of-the-art investigative and design techniques,” and its detailed risk management program. The scope and size of the project, and its use of the latest HDD technology, were all part of what made it a unique project. “It used the latest HDD techniques and successfully covered a lot of bases,” says Todd Simenson, a managing principal at Stantec Consulting Ltd. Alberta Construction Magazine | 43

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The project was just one small part of a vast program of infrastructure projects and upgrades on the books for the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, worth a total of about $1.6 billion. The city is in acute need of infrastructure to support both recent and future growth. Fuelled by huge investments and development in the oilsands, Fort McMurray has been growing at a phenomenal rate, with projections of 12 per cent growth per year to 2016. Some projections estimate that the city will have a population of 250,000 by 2016. Adding capacity The new forcemains provide additional capacity to the sanitary sewer system of Fort McMurray’s lower townsite, allowing for new development there and to the south. As a project, it was anything but simple. The project involved multiple stakeholders and construction consisted of six contracts, including upgrades to two pumping stations, three open-cut pipe installation contracts, plus the twin forcemains crossing the Athabasca River. The lower townsite, which is bounded by the Clearwater River at the north end, with new subdivisions sprouting on the 44 | Summer 2011

higher ground across the river, is in a valley at the confluence of two rivers, the Athabasca and the Clearwater. The 8.4-kilometre Forcemains pipe begins at Pumping Station 1B at the eastern edge of the lower townsite, runs along the north end, and, at the edge of the Athabasca, crosses a small channel of water before running along the western edge of an island where a golf course is located. At the north end of the island, the pipe is twinned where it crosses the Athabasca to the west side, and then runs north to the waste water treatment plant. Before const r uct ion sta r ted, a detailed environmental assessment was done, with particular attention paid to where the river should best be crossed. Various methods and locations were considered, but it was concluded that HDD installation would have the least impact on the river and surrounding areas. Pipelines, gas utilities, power lines, the adjacent golf course, the bridge and highway reconstruction on the west side of the Athabasca added to the challenge of determining the best route for the pipe. It was a case of a lot of infrastructure competing for a relatively small amount of real estate.

“There was a degree of complexity with utilities and highways competing for utility assignments, and this pushed for the pipe under the river as an option,” says Darcy Elder, director of engineering for the regional municipality. Much of the 8.4 kilometres of pipe consists of a single forcemain with an inside diameter of 750 millimetres. The section crossing the river has two pipes each of 750-millimetre inside diameter. The extra pipe is for operational redundancy and capacity for the future, Simenson says. The final section of the forcemain also has twin pipes, but of different diameters—one at 750 millimetres and the other at 900 millimetres. The size of the pipes was determined by hydraulic modelling, which was also used for pressure parameters and pipe system configuration. “This modelling was challenging due to the large f low variations during wet weather periods, the various hydraulic heads involved due to the system configuration and for system redundancy,” according to a paper coauthored by Simenson and presented at the NASTT No-Dig Show 2010.

infrastructure Gauging risk Part of the risk assessment process, which Simenson says included the identification of 42 risk items and development of 73 mitigation measures, involved doing some geotechnical drilling. “A critical risk we found was that at the exit side, there was natural gas at a depth of about 30 metres that was quite close to the exit point,” he says. Both the entry and exit points of the horizontally drilled tunnel crossing the Athabasca, which was at a depth of about 45 metres below the riverbed, had to be set well back and at sufficient depth below the water to avoid what’s known as a “frac out.” This would occur if the ground above the HDD borehole gave way and resulted in drilling mud mixing with river water. Says Simenson, “It wou ld t hen involve the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and would be serious.” Apart from the twinned section crossing below the riverbed, which was high-density polyethylene (HDPE), PVC pipe was mostly used for the forcemain project. Simenson says that the advantage of using HDPE is that sections are fused together with no joints. The lack of available land on which to set a surface tracking coil led to the use of a barge as a base for a solenoid beacon system to track and guide the drill head for the pilot borehole. For the second hole, a ranging wire was attached to the first HDPE pipe as it was being installed. This was used to provide guidance for the second hole to ensure that it was drilled at a sufficient distance from the first hole. The issue risk for t he horizontal drilling had to be handled differently than it would in the oil and gas industry. Says Simenson: “When a horizontal directional driller provides a bid to Shell Ltd., it’s based on production and time, but the producer may take on some of the risk. But a municipality does not. With a municipality, the cheapest one gets it, so we had to review bids carefully to ensure they didn’t off load risks.”

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33 kilometres down, 210 left to go on the twinning of Highway 63 By Tricia Radison

It’s been five years since the provincial government committed to twinning 243 kilometres of Highway 63 in northern Alberta, a commitment that is expected to cost about $1 billion when the last stretch is finally paved. When all of Highway 63 will be twinned is anyone’s guess. So far, 16 kilometres south of Fort McMurray and 17 kilometres north of Fort McMurray are finished. So what’s going on with the other 210 clicks? Construction began in January on eight kilometres of highway south of Wandering River, an area characterized by heavy muskeg. Grading is expected to be completed before the frost is out of the ground. There’s no word, however, on when the contract for paving work will be awarded. “We are removing much of the soil where the roadway will go and using fill to help build a stronger roadway,” explains Heather Kaszuba, a spokeswoman for Alberta Transportation. “We want to allow time for grading work to settle prior to beginning the paving work.”

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The short stretch will probably be paved as part of a contract that includes other sections of the highway, as paving contracts are typically for a certain distance of highway. Sigfusson Northern Ltd. is doing the grading of the $20-million project. Another 36 kilometres of grading is underway north of Wandering River. The province is investing $35 million in that stretch and grading is expected to wrap up this fall. A separate contract for paving work will follow. The northern section does not require the settling time that the southern section needs and is predicted to be the next section to open to traffic. 48 | Summer 2011

As oilsands activity in the Fort McMurray region has increased, so has the traffic on Highway 63. Trucks hauling equipment to and from the oilsands sites are common, as these photos show.

Prairie Roadbuilders Limited of Edmonton is the contractor. While that’s all the news on twinning, other improvements to Highway 63 are also underway. The $127-million, five-lane bridge over the Athabasca River is scheduled to open this year. Flatiron Construction Corp. is the contractor. The $300-million interchange project at Thickwood Boulevard and Confederation Way in Fort McMurray will begin opening in stages starting in 2012. South Rock Ltd. is the contractor in charge of that project.

About 70 kilometres of Highway 63 north of Highway 55 has been repaved and about five kilometres of Highway 63 inside Fort McMurray has been widened and repaved. Approximately six kilometres of passing lanes have been added in two locations. The government is providing more than $190 million in the 2011 budget for the construction of Highway 63 and the Northeast Alberta Transportation Corridor. Says Kaszuba, “This is about investing in a region that makes a tremendous contribution to the province’s economy.”

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The right treatment Formwork system for South Health Campus recognized for innovation

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EllisDon and PERI Formwork Systems’ formwork system won the Hugh R. Montgomery Memorial Trophy, the Canadian Construction Association’s top award for innovation.

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It’s not until you’re right next to it that you truly appreciate the enormity of Calgary’s new South Health Campus, though you’ll have no problem spotting it from the highway. With more than 1,500 tradespeople on site, the $1.4-billion South Health Campus is Canada’s largest infrastructure project. EllisDon Corporation is the construction manager. Construction should be finished early next year. The South Health Campus is more than a hospital. As Alberta Health Services points out, the word campus is used “to take into account the diverse activities on the site, such as emergency care, inpatient and outpatient care, services to promote wellness for patients and staff, and research and education of health care professionals for the future.” The campus will serve southeastern Calgary and surrounding rural areas, and will become a referral centre for southern Alberta. Services will include medicine, surgery, emergency services and critical care, maternal and neonatal care, mental health services, pediatrics, laboratory services and diagnostic imaging. About 156,000 square metres of developed space will comprise the initial phase of the project. There will be nearly 300 beds for patients who need to be admitted for treatment. There will also be 12 outpatient clinics located on site for same-day treatment. While all of that is impressive, what many may not know about is some remarkable innovation that went into making the South Health Campus a reality. In order to construct a building with over 200,000 square metres of structural slab formwork located on the 44-acre site, a revolutionary formwork system was required, as conventional support systems would not meet schedule restraints. EllisDon had an idea to create a moveable formwork platform that could move not just in one direction, but in two. Working with Germany-based PERI Formwork Systems, Inc., the result was a proprietary formwork system—the first of its kind ever built in the world—called the IntElliDeck system. The system is so innovative it enabled EllisDon (Calgary) to win the Canadian Construction Association’s top award for innovation: the Hugh R. Montgomery Memorial Trophy. A packed audience of design consultants, contractors, directors of the Calgary Construction Association (CCA) along with

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A closer view of the formwork system.

EllisDon’s partner in the design of the formwork system, PERI Formwork, and Alberta Health Services gathered at the project site in April to recognize EllisDon’s achievement. CCA president Jim Clement of Graham Construction & Engineering Inc. noted that leaders from around the world state that innovation and research are key drivers for long-term economic growth and employment. Clement

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introduced South Health Campus project director Scott Thompson, who highlighted the system and pointed out how labour productivity was enhanced, crane lifting requirements were reduced and the project schedule was advanced, which led to a $50-million savings for the owner. In addition, Thompson said not one incident occurred in the utilization of the IntElliDeck system.

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By Godfrey Budd About $830-million worth of water, waste water treatment and related infrastructure projects are under construction right now in Alberta, according to the most recent quarterly Inventory of Major Alberta Projects. The inventory—produced by Alberta Finance and Enterprise and listing projects from all sectors valued at $5 million or more—includes another $755 million in water-related projects that should see a construction start within the next couple of years. Some of the biggest spending on water and waste infrastructure is in cities and municipalities that have experienced some of the fastest rates of population growth in the province over the last few years— as one might expect. In Fort McMurray, Alta., the largest centre in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, the population jumped from 36,452 in 1999 to 72,363 in 2008, according to census data. The

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data, however, doesn’t reflect a substantial “shadow” population, which varies in size, depending on the amount of oilsands development and maintenance underway. Nonetheless, this population, whether it shows up in official data or not, has to be accommodated with the necessary infrastructure, including water and waste management systems, says Darcy Elder, director of engineering for the regional municipality. Growth slowed as major projects were completed and a sharp drop in oil prices took effect following the Wall Street crash in the fall of 2008. But Fort McMurray’s population has continued to grow in the wake of a series of new and revived oilsands projects that have been announced beginning in early 2009. Some projections have pegged its total population in the 250,000 range by 2016. Two new large subdivisions are being developed in the oilsands city. Besides the recently completed $45-million Twin Forcemains project in Fort McMurray (see story, page 42), the regional municipality has over $360-million worth of water and waste water projects on its books that are either under construction or soon will be. “We’re doing a water main that has a trenchless section going up the side of a hill to set up for a new subdivision of 20,000 people,” Elder says. “We’re also running a water main to another subdivision of an 56 | Summer 2011

estimated 24,000 people. The work for the main includes boring under major roads.” UPGRADES AND EXPANSIONS Along with new water and sewage mains, work on the municipality’s water and waste infrastructure includes major upgrades and expansions to water and waste water treatment plants that service Fort McMurray. Elder says that just one of the new subdivisions accounts for over $100 million in spending on water and waste water infrastructure. In Edmonton, EPCOR is continuing its program of upgrading the city’s water mains with announced spending of $30 million on water mains for 2011, with about $20 million earmarked for the upgrade program. The company typically spends $10 million to $20 million a year on the program, which replaces older cast iron lines with more durable PVC pipe. The program began in the mid-1980s when cracks and deterioration in cast iron pipe often resulted in as many as 1,600 water main breaks a year. About 500 kilometres of cast iron pipe have been replaced since 1985, and EPCOR says that the program is producing results. Last year saw 332 water main breaks in Edmonton, a big drop from the 1980s. EPCOR has been aggressively growing the water side of its business. In 2009, the company took over Edmonton’s Gold Bar waste water treatment plant from the city

and bought Suncor’s potable and waste water facilities for $100 million under a leaseback deal. In 2010, it completed upgrades on water treatment plants in Okotoks, Alta., Strathmore, Alta., and Taber, Alta., and won a contract to provide maintenance and other services for the Town of Banff’s waste water plant. Given the ongoing global economic uncertainty, it is no surprise that the corporate sector—in Alberta and elsewhere—is scrambling to dive into what is seen as a fast-growth market. According to the Edmonton Journal, Toray Industries, Inc., a manufacturer of membranes used to clean water, says that a new $500-billion market in running water supply and waste water treatment infrastructure will likely emerge over the next 15 years. Water systems and other infrastructure have been a source of concern for Fort McMurray’s residents as they waited for government to play catch up as the population ballooned. The City of Calgary, on the other hand, has already spent handsomely on water infrastructure to accommodate the recent population boom. DEBT DOWNSIDE But there’s a surprising problem in the business-oriented city. Recent spending, including $300 million to upgrade the Glenmore and Bearspaw water treatment plants and $400 million on

infrastructure the Pine Creek sewage facility, has helped triple the city’s water and waste water treatment debt to $1.3 billion over the past seven years. About five or six years ago, when Calgary’s and the province’s economies went into overdrive, its city council exempted suburban developers from paying for the upgrades to water and waste water systems that were needed to support the new subdivisions that were sprouting up. Ratepayers would shoulder the cost of growth. By early this year, however, the city had changed course, and was “negotiating to make developers cover the water and waste water expansion costs once again,” according to a recent story in the Calgary Herald. The city still has some big projects on the books, but, overall, work looks set to be winding down. The $218.7-million upgrades on the Glenmore water treatment plant, begun in 2004, should be completed this year. Work is also underway on about $62-million worth of sanitary trunk projects. Also, a weir that was originally built in 1904, and diverts water from the Bow River into a canal system to support irrigation, is getting about $17-million worth of modifications. The Harvie Passage, as the weir modification project has come to be known, was necessary because, although the weir has an important function, it has a nasty side effect, summarized by rescue professionals as, “a drowning machine.” The weir is located just east of the city’s downtown business district. Ongoing upgrades and repairs to parts of southern Alberta’s crucial agricultural irrigation systems continue. Although work on the CarselandBow River headworks system began in the 1990s, the lion’s share of the $100-million-plus series of upgrades has been done in the last decade, says Richard Phillips, general manager for the Bow River Irrigation District, which is based in Vauxhall, Alta. The work has included a rebuild of 66 kilometres of canal from the Bow River head gate just south of Carseland to McGregor Reservoir, improvements to the emergency spill system and the rebuilding of some dams. Predictably, much of the work has to be done in winter.

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PCL executive takes top prize Forty-year construction veteran Gordon Maron of PCL Construction Holdings Ltd. has been named Canada’s chief financial officer of the year. The program is sponsored by Financial Executives International Canada, PwC and Robert Half. Maron is the first-ever award winner from a private company, according to PCL. He was selected by an independent committee, comprising some of Canada’s most prominent business leaders. The judging panel evaluated the nominees based on vision and leadership, corporate reporting and performance, social responsibility, innovation and business complexity.

Maron joined the Edmontonbased construction giant’s board of directors in 1995 before moving into the chief financial officer position in 2001. In the decade that followed, Maron helped build the financial strategy and infrastructure that saw PCL through a period of rapid growth—between 2006 and 2009 alone, company billings grew from $4.7 billion to $6.3 billion. This year, he transitioned into a new position as executive vice-president, where he works on a variety of capital planning, risk management and succession planning initiatives for PCL.

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Broda Construction Group, which is part of Calgary-based Churchill Corporation’s Industrial Services Segment, has won a contract for the rough grading of the Calgary Airport Authority’s new Runway Development Program. The target completion date for Broda’s portion of the project is the end of the construction season in 2012. Broda expects to employ around 175 people on the project. Churchill said the contract demonstrates Broda’s ability to win bigger projects as a subsidiary of a larger public company. The airport’s new runway and terminal are expected to be operational in March 2014.

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Boom design, which the company says delivers best-in-class forward dump height and reach. They offer a 53-degree dump angle that will let operators empty their bucket faster and thereby increase cycle times and productivity. The five models are rated from 57 horsepower to 84 horsepower. The L218 has an operating weight of 2,660 kilograms while

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On the outside, Ford Motor Company’s 2011 F-150 pickups may look a lot like the 2010 models. It’s what’s under the hood that’s different. In what the company calls the most extensive powertrain overhaul in the truck’s history, Ford has introduced four new engines, all coupled to a revised sixspeed automatic transmission. There’s a 3.7-litre V6, a 5.0-litre V8, a 6.2litre V8 and the 3.5-litre EcoBoost engine. Here are the highlights: • 3.7-litre V6: 302 horsepower (hp) at 6,500 revolutions per minute (rpm); 278 pound-foot (lb.-ft.) of torque at 4,500 rpm; 2,767 kilograms (kg) maximum trailer tow. • 5.0-litre V8: 360 hp at 5,500 rpm; 380 lb.ft. of torque at 4,250 rpm; 4,536 kg maximum trailer tow. • 6.2-litre V8: 411 hp at 5,500 rpm; 434 lb.ft. of torque at 4,500 rpm; 5,125 kg maximum trailer tow. • 3.5-litre EcoBoost: 365 hp at 5,000 rpm; 420 lb.-ft. of torque at 2,500 rpm; 5,126 kg maximum trailer tow. Ford is particularly proud of the new EcoBoost, saying fuel economy is up to 20 per cent better versus the 2010 F-150 5.4litre V8. The engine, Ford adds, features technology normally found in heavy-duty diesel truck engines, including twin turbochargers and direct fuel injection. Also, up to 90 per cent of the EcoBoost’s peak torque is available from 1,700 rpm to 5,500 rpm. Ford says a typical comparable V8 competitor reaches peak torque at higher engine speeds—around 4,000 rpm.

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Construction is all about turning a thought or a dream into a reality. What begins as a two-dimensional drawing or a 3-D computer animation can turn into something that lasts a lifetime...or three. These projects affect people in ways we can’t begin to imagine when laying that first footer or hoisting that first steel beam into place. Of course, much depends on the type of building material used. On the pages ahead, we’re going to introduce you to some exceptional projects around Alberta. To begin with, we profile the winners and finalists of the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction’s Alberta Steel Design Awards of Excellence. This every-other-year event is billed as the largest steel industry awards recognition program in North America. Fittingly, the theme was Building an Iconic Future. We also present the 2011 Alberta Masonry Design Awards Award of Excellence and Award of Merit winners. Every four years, the Masonry Contractors Association of Alberta—a group of contractors, suppliers and manufacturers involved in the masonry trade to support the use of masonry—showcases its creative talent in a variety of categories. The theme was Celebrating Architecture in Masonry. And finally, we have winners of the American Concrete Institute Alberta Chapter Awards of Excellence in Concrete, which were just announced a few weeks ago. The not-for-profit group recognizes and awards excellence in concrete construction throughout Alberta every other year.

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Invoking the aurora borealis WINNER

Architectural Award

Art Gallery of Alberta

The project was a renovation of the existing concrete building to create expanded, flexible, museum-quality space for the gallery’s permanent collection and major travelling exhibitions. The renovation consisted of a two-storey vertical addition above the existing building to contain gallery space and offices, and the addition of an atrium that exhibits the creative and dramatic use of steel to invoke the aurora borealis. Structural steel was chosen because it minimized the impact on the existing structure, reduced loads on the foundation and provided unimpeded columnfree interior space to maximize flexibility for exhibitions. The entire addition is supported by only six columns located on the north and south perimeters.

The building envelope of the atrium is formed from angular, transparent glazing planes penetrated by curving, reflective metal-clad elements that create the borealis. Construction of the atrium presented numerous challenges due to the complex geometry, according to Trevor Hobbs, detailing and technical lead, Empire Iron Works. “While the structure itself looks quite light and airy, we were dealing with heavy loads and members that had to line up with each other precisely,” he points out. “Both exposed and concealed connections required special attention due to the 3-D aspect, the aesthetics and the close proximity of other building elements. This was most difficult where the skin fit tightly to

the structure and restricted the space we could work with.” Some elements of structural steel were cantilevered through the skin. Says Hobbs: “Because steel is a good thermal conductor, this could compromise the museum quality space. The team resolved this issue by incorporating a thermal break in the steel at the point where it penetrates the building envelope and adding a nonconducting material in the joint to isolate the interior steel from the exterior steel.” A large measure of the success of the project is due to teamwork and the use of a variety of emerging techniques in 3-D modelling to coordinate and communicate the design details necessary for efficient site construction, Hobbs says.

Category: Architectural Award | Project: Art Gallery of Alberta | Architect: Randall Stout Architects, Inc.; HIP Architects, Associate Architect | Engineer: DeSimone Consulting Engineers | CISC Engineer: BPTEC-DNW Engineering Ltd. | CISC Steel Fabricator/ Detailer/Erector: Empire Iron Works Ltd. | General Contractor: Ledcor Construction Ltd.

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Creating western Canada’s tallest building WINNER

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Engineering Award

The Bow

The Bow in downtown Calgary is different from other buildings in North America in its application of a triangular steel diagrid system to a curved building. Not only will it be the tallest in western Canada when completed, the diagrid—a design composed of six-storey high diagonal elements—creates a perimeter frame of linked equilateral triangles curved to match the bow of the building on the north and south faces. The external structural system frees up more floor space than a traditional building, and the diagrid design also significantly reduces the amount of steel required compared to a conventional structure. The crescent-shaped floor plan increases the number of perimeter offices that are possible and improves access to natural light. “The curve had its own rationale,” says Stephen Carruthers, managing partner, western Canada, Zeidler Partnership Architects. “It also decreases the wind resistance that would be associated with a rectangular building of the same size. It’s an aerodynamic shape that allows the wind to slip around the curve, much like the wing of an airplane.” Also, the building’s curve, he says, is intended to catch the rays of the sun. “It orients the building to the southwest to capture maximum sun and gives occupants a more direct view of the mountains.” The combination of the crescent shape and diagrid system necessitated a faceted curtain wall solution, Carruthers says. “What would be a straightforward rectilinear geometry in a conventional office tower suddenly becomes very subtle geometry. Because of the curvature, each steel member of the diagrid had to connect into a node at very precise angles and with very exacting tolerances.” And did it? “It was a very tense moment when the first node was set into place,” Carruthers says. “We were all very anxious that it should fit perfectly. The first one dropped into place beautifully. Everyone heaved a sigh of relief. From that point on, we said, ‘This is going to go well.’”

Category: Engineering Award | Project: The Bow | Owner: H&R Real Estate Investment Trust/Matthews Southwest | Architect: Foster + Partners/Zeidler Partnership Architects | CISC Engineer: Halcrow Yolles | CISC Fabricator/Detailer/Erector: Supreme Group/Walters Group Joint Venture | General Contractor: Ledcor Construction Ltd. (construction manager)

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New life for an old bridge WINNER

Sustainability Award

Dawson Bridge

While Edmonton’s Dawson Bridge has been in service for nearly a century, innovative technology used in its recent rehabilitation has turned it into a modern world leader. The five-span riveted steel throughtruss bridge was originally built to carry electric trains to a coal mine on the eastern bank of the North Saskatchewan River. Later converted to carry automobiles, the bridge currently accommodates 17,000 vehicles a day along with significant pedestrian and cyclist traffic. After almost a century of use, the bridge needed significant repair including total deck replacement and truss

repainting. Numerous truss members required strengthening or replacement to provide an appropriate level of safety and to extend the service life of the bridge. The design team chose a lightweight composite steel plate and elastomer deck system using a technology originally developed for the marine industry and only recently applied to bridge construction. The system basically consists of two thin steel faceplates connected by an injected elastomer core, for a total thickness of only 45 millimetres in the case of the Dawson Bridge. Says Kris Lima, a structural engineer with DIALOG and design consultant on

the project: “By using this system, we were able to reduce by more than half the number of members needing strengthening or replacement to bring the bridge up to current safety standards. “Only a handful of bridges have been built using this technology. The Dawson Bridge project is the first major project in the world of this scale to incorporate this innovative system.” Another innovation was the bridge’s bolting system. It involves using splice plates to connect adjacent deck panels with countersunk bolts, allowing the panels to be quickly bolted into position on the bridge.

Category: Sustainability Award | Project: Dawson Bridge rehabilitation | Owner: City of Edmonton | CISC Engineer: DIALOG CISC Fabricator/Detailer: Empire Iron Works Ltd. and Steel Design and Fabricators Ltd. | Steel Erector: Steel Design and Fabricators General Contractor: ConCreate USL Ltd.

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Quesnell Bridge

The Quesnell Bridge is on Edmonton’s busiest traffic corridor, Whitemud Drive, with volumes of more than 120,000 vehicles per day. When this section needed widening, rerouting that traffic onto a detour was not an option. This presented a particular challenge with respect to widening the bridge. “We needed to design a system that would be cost effective, feasible and involve minimum construction time while allowing traffic to continue to flow,” says Gary Kriviak, principal project consultant with CH2M HILL Canada Limited. Early analysis determined that there was some reserve capacity for additional weight on the existing piers and foundations, indicating that pier cap extensions

were a feasible approach for supporting a widened bridge deck. A more conventional pier-widening scheme would require construction from the foundation level up. Extending the pier caps was not without technical design and installation challenges. Selecting structural steel as a primary component of the extensions turned out to be a key factor in addressing the challenges, Kriviak says. Ten steel cap extensions were designed, two for each of the five piers. Each extension consisted of a compartmentalized pier cap top element, an inclined strut and a pier shaft bracket connection—all fabricated from steel to minimize weight while meeting geometric, stiffness and strength requirements.

One of the challenges of using this extension system was its connection to the existing concrete piers. Connection of the struts to the pier shafts was accomplished using steel strut end brackets anchored to the existing concrete with a group of steel tie rods grouted into cored holes. External steel post-tensioning rods were used to connect the top cap element to the existing concrete pier cap to hold it in place and transfer load back to the concrete. When completed, each pier cap extension was a composite structure, with a hollow central compartment and peripheral compartments filled with concrete to enhance strength. An interface layer of new concrete between the steel extensions and the existing concrete piers was also used.

Category: Steel Edge Award | Project: Quesnell Bridge widening rehabilitation—pier cap extensions | Owner: City of Edmonton Engineer: CH2M HILL Canada Limited | CISC Steel Fabricator/Erector: Waiward Steel Fabricators Ltd. | CISC Detailer: M&D Drafting Ltd. General Contractor: Concreate USL Ltd.

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Reaching the heights of creativity WINNER Industrial Award

Shell Canada Energy Reactor Building

While designing and building overhead crane runway support systems is nothing out of the ordinary, the project to retrofit the Shell Canada Energy Reactor Building into a fabrication facility presented the design-build team with different challenges requiring creative design and installation solutions. Shell wanted to convert a large, empty, pre-engineered steel building into a fabrication facility to support a scheduled shutdown and for future use. The building was to accommodate three interior overhead crane runways supporting one five-tonne, one 10-tonne and two 20-tonne cranes. Shell specified that the support system was to be independent of the existing building structure. In addition, the company wanted the system to achieve maximum hook height. “We had to do considerable design up front in order to bid,” says Brian Watson, president of Eskimo Steel Ltd. and project manager. His company brought BPTEC-DNW Engineering Ltd. in on the preliminary design phase. “One of the early challenges was the special requirement to absolutely maximize the area of travel of the overhead cranes,” Watson says. “It was akin to trying to stretch a cube in three dimensions without touching the perimeter.” The team’s solution was a series of three-dimensional tower columns recessed between the existing pre-engineered building columns. The towers support not only the gravity loads, but also the lateral loads imposed by the cranes, eliminating the need for horizontal trusses, and maximizing overhead crane span and lateral hook travel. “This system is unique in that it’s totally free-standing,” Watson says. “It’s also quite tall in relation to the span.” What’s also unique is that the towers are cantilevered from the pre-existing one-metre thick structural slab-on-grade, says Brian Kennedy, director of BPTEC-DNW Engineering Ltd. “We utilized the strength of that slab to anchor the towers, so we didn’t have to build a new foundation.” Scheduling was a major challenge on the project. “The timeline was tight between the awarding of the bid to commissioning of the cranes,” Watson says. “This meant we had to work as a team, share information and get Shell’s approvals quickly at each step.”

Category: Industrial Award | Owner: Shell Canada Energy | General Contractor/Fabricator/Detailer/Erector: Eskimo Steel Ltd. CISC Engineer: BPTEC-DNW Engineering Ltd.

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Meet the other finalists Eighth Avenue Place Owner: Hines Interests Limited Partnership (project developer) Architect: Pickard Chilton Engineer: Read Jones Christoffersen Ltd. Fabricator/Detailer: Supermétal Structures Erector: Supermétal Structures General Contractor: EllisDon Corporation CISC Members: Read Jones Christoffersen Ltd., Supermétal Structures The total 1.85-million-square-foot development is a leader in environmental design and is Canada’s first pre-certified Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Core and Shell Platinum high-rise office building. The office tower structure consists of a hybrid structural steel frame and a concrete core.

Inland Concrete Pipe Manufacturing Facility Owner: Inland Heidelberg Cement Group Architect/Engineer: Group2 Architecture Engineering Ltd. Fabricator/Detailer: Three Star Steel (Calgary) Ltd. General Contractor: Cana Construction Ltd. Erector: AB & S Steel CISC Member: Group2 Architecture Engineering Ltd. The first of its kind in North America and situated on one of Inland’s former aggregate extraction sites, the Inland Pipe Plant is a new 7,750-square-metre state-of-the-art

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manufacturing facility that modernizes the concrete pipe production process using fully automated equipment that will significantly increase concrete pipe output.

Red Deer College BCTL Component 1 Owner: Red Deer College Architect/Engineer: Group2 Architecture Engineering Ltd. Steel Fabricator/Detailer/Erector: Supermétal Structures General Contractor: Stuart Olson Dominion Construction Ltd. CISC Members: Group2 Architecture Engineering Ltd., Supermétal Structures The Red Deer College Building Communities Through Learning (BCTL) project provides program space where industry and business participate directly in education programs and collaboration. The building designed to meet this challenge is a two-storey industrial production warehouse and manufacturing facility including open offices, studios, classrooms and labs. These connect back to the campus through an enormous computer learning commons that is supported by a series of elegant steel “trees.”

St. Joseph Seminary Owner: Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton Architect/Engineer: DIALOG Fabricator: Quirion Métal Detailer: JP Drafting Ltd.

Steel Erector: GP Welding & Erecting Ltd. General Contractor: Dawson Wallace Construction Ltd. CISC Members: DIALOG, Quirion Métal Timeless permanence was a key design objective for the new St. Joseph Seminary on the Catholic Campus in Edmonton. Traditional forms of church architecture are reinterpreted with modern materials, especially structural steel, and play a vital role in the overall design. Built nearly entirely of steel, the seminary features cold-formed steel in the residential wings and structural steel for the common spaces, teaching spaces and narthex.

Supreme Steel Bridge Division Plant Expansion Owner/Fabricator/Detailer/Erector: Supreme Steel Bridge Division Engineer: GeoMetrix Group Engineering Ltd. General Contractor: Alberco Construction Ltd. CISC Member: Supreme Steel This project involved expansion of Supreme Steel’s Bridge Division plant in east Edmonton to double the plant’s capacity. When the company undertook the expansion, it was a foregone conclusion that steel would be the material of choice—the plant manufactured the very beams that would be used to frame its expansion.

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Presidential Award

Royal Canadian Pacific Railway Pavilion

The inspiration for the Royal Canadian Pacific Entry Pavilion is the image of a historic steel trestle bridge. The trestle sets up the primary public spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the grand foyer or Galleriaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that links directly to the existing Royal Canadian Pacific train pavilion. A three-storey wall of cable and glass faces the Palliser Hotel and fills the Galleria with natural light. The full-height

interior west wall features large module limestone masonry, as does the exterior cladding at both the front entrance and the building base along First Street southwest. In addition to being a durable and highly attractive building material, the use of limestone masonry is consistent with the existing train pavilion and is sympathetic to the adjacent Palliser Hotel and

the neighbouring Grain Exchange building. Other materials include black plate steel and glass. The facility embraces the history and contemporary values of the current-day Canadian Pacific company. Oversized heavy steel members emulate the traditional trestle bridge and the large module limestone masonry reflects the heavy nature of the Rocky Mountains.

Owner: Canadian Pacific Railway | Architect: DIALOG | General Contractor: Centron Construction | Masonry Contractor: G & M Stone Masonry Ltd. | Engineer: DIALOG

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masonry awards of excellence EXCELLENCE

Rustic Art

Artistic Use of Masonry

Owners: Aldeene & Paul Gianellia Artist: Shayne Sas Masonry Contractor: Rushing River Masonry Other Team Member: Rundle Rock Building Stone In all, nine months were required to mould each handpicked stone to recreate an exquisite mountain effect. This majestic fireplace creates a focal point and gives a visual presence and luxurious feel.

EXCELLENCE Commercial Building

The Water Centre

Owner: City of Calgary Architect: Sturgess Architecture and Manasc Isaac Architects Ltd. General Contractor: Stuart Olson Dominion Construction Ltd. Masonry Contractor: Pockar Masonry Ltd. Engineer: Read Jones Christoffersen Ltd. The building marries the aspects of environmental fit and functional program into an iconic form that is symbolic of both its user and of its context.

EXCELLENCE

Educational/Institutional

Pine Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant

Owner: City of Calgary Architect: GEC Architecture General Contractor: Graham Construction Masonry Contractor: Pockar Masonry Ltd., Gracom and Thibeault Masonry Ltd. Engineer: Stantec Consulting Ltd. Other Team Member: CH2M HILL Masonry provides the natural appearance and civic aesthetic to meet the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s design needs, while also providing the performance, durability and life cycle to successfully function in a demanding industrial environment.

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masonry awards of excellence EXCELLENCE Multi-Family Residential

Riverside Quays

Owner: Statesman Group of Companies Architect: NORR Architects Engineers Planners General Contractor: Statesman Group of Companies Masonry Contractor: Aurora Masonry Ltd. Engineer: Hemisphere Engineering Masonry was selected for Riverside Quays because of the aesthetic appeal and superior low-maintenance qualities of the product. As well, masonry expresses an architectural timelessness of permanence and quality.

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Coach House

Architect: Richard Lindseth Architecture Inc. General Contractor: Hassell Construction Ltd. Masonry Contractor: IB Jensen Masonry Ltd. The differing architectural languages of the properties are united by the new design, which draws on elements from each of the buildings.

EXCELLENCE

Single Family Residential

Silvertip Residence

Architect: Richard Lindseth Architecture Inc. General Contractor: Sterling Timber Frame Homes Masonry Contractor: Boulderworks Engineer: KTA Structural Engineers Ltd. Other Team Member: Richard Lindseth Architecture Inc. Masonry elements comprise the most significant element of this contemporary mountain residence in Canmore, Alta.

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EXCELLENCE

Structural Masonry Design

Folly in the Devonian Botanic Garden

Owner: University of Alberta, Devonian Botanic Garden Architect: the marc boutin architectural collaborative inc. General Contractor: Scorpio Masonry (Northern) Inc. Masonry Contractor: Scorpio Masonry (Northern) Inc. Engineer: Grant Structural Engineering The Folly in the Devonian Botanic Garden is a memorial, a gateway and a place to look out over one of Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best landscapes. It was commissioned in honour of a lifelong patron.

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Immense Mode

Artistic Use of Masonry

Owner: City of Edmonton Designer: Voyager Art & Tile General Contractor: Voyager Art & Tile Masonry Contractor: Voyager Art & Tile Engineer: Stantec Consulting Ltd. Other: Absolute Fusion Contracting Ltd.

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Architect: Gibbs Gage Architects General Contractor: Optimus Building Corporation Masonry Contractor: Pockar Masonry Ltd.

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Owner: Alberta Health Services Architect: DIALOG General Contractor: EllisDon Corporation Masonry Contractor: Scorpio Masonry (Northern) Inc. Engineer: DIALOG

MERIT

Multi-Family Residential

Five West

Owner: The LaCaille Group Architect: NORR Architects Engineers Planners General Contractor: Clark Builders Masonry Contractor: Pockar Masonry Ltd. Engineer: MMP Structural Engineering Ltd.

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MERIT Restoration

Connaught School

Owner: Bentall LP for Calgary Board of Education Architect: Gibbs Gage Architects General Contractor: EllisDon Corporation Masonry Contractor: Pockar Masonry Ltd.

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2011 Awards of Excellence in Concrete The Alberta Chapter of the American Concrete Institute—the notfor-profit organization dedicated to advancing the practice of concrete across the industry through education, technical practice and

networking—announced its 2011 Awards of Excellence in Concrete in mid-May. Winners are announced every other year. Here are this year’s winners.

WINNER Bridge

Fort Edmonton Footbridge

Category: Bridge Owner: City of Edmonton Architect: HFKS Architects Inc. Consultant: CH2M HILL Contractor: Alberco Construction Ltd. Concrete Supplier: Inland Concrete Limited Other: Lafarge North America

WINNER Restoration

Dunvegan Suspension Bridge Deck Replacement

Category: Restoration Owner: Alberta Transportation Consultant: Associated Engineering Alberta Ltd. Contractor: ConCreate USL Ltd.

WINNER Sustainability

Ralph Klein Park and Environmental Education Centre

Category: Sustainable Owner: City of Calgary Architect: Simpson Roberts Architecture Interior Design Inc. Consultant: Read Jones Christoffersen Ltd. Contractor: Graham Construction & Engineering Inc., a joint venture Concrete Supplier: Inland Concrete Limited Other: Carson McCulloch Associates Ltd.

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WINNER

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Clark Builders Floating Stairs

Category: Advanced Concrete Construction Owner: Clark Builders Ltd. Consultant: Walters Chambers & Associates Ltd.; Kassian Dyck & Associates Ltd. Contractor: Clark Builders Concrete Supplier: Lafarge (Alberta Precast)

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St. Joseph Seminary

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Introducing Canada’s national plan room service The new portal consolidates plan room data from most of Canada’s local construction associations. That means that bidders will be able to access data on more than 20,000 projects, and buyers can display their projects in front of more than 12,000 firms! Buyers and bidders be aware: construction-procurement opportunities just got a little easier to manage. Link2Build—an online portal that consolidates construction bidding opportunities from the electronic plan rooms of local construction associations across the country—was launched recently to widespread acclaim. For bidders, the website’s introduction simplifies the job of searching for bid opportunities. It is a single window through which contractors gain access to private- and public-sector bid opportunities in British Columbia, Alberta (through the Edmonton Construction Association), Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces. For buyers, the site offers a targeted, qualified audience of more than 12,000 firms from across the country. “The great thing about Link2Build is that it is owned by construction associations across the country,” says Edmonton Construction Association executive vice-president Darlene La Trace. “These are the local organizations that represent all firms in the industry: general and trade contractors, road builders, heavy-construction firms, and manufacturers and suppliers. Exposure to such a large base of construction professionals is impossible to find on any other procurement site.” Because buyers’ projects are exposed to so many more firms when they are posted on Link2Build, more firms compete for their projects and prices go down. Moreover, the team that stands behind Link2Build is composed of the specialists who run the plan rooms at most of the country’s local construction associations. These men and women understand the challenges associated with receiving, posting and distributing tender documents and they can communicate far more effectively with buyers and bidders than the people who run other, general bid-opportunity websites.

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POLICY REVIEW UNDERWAY by Ken Gibson ACA Executive Director

The Alberta Construction Association’s (ACA) new board of directors was elected in early 2011, led by new chairman Colin Ward of Ward Brothers Construction Ltd. in Lethbridge, Alta. ACA’s 2011 board includes: Colin Ward (Ward Brothers Construction Ltd.) – chairman Brian Freemark (LSM-Lee’s Sheet Metal Ltd.) – senior vice-chairman Bob Robinson (Westcor Construction Ltd.) – vice-chairman Roger Dootson (PCL Construction Management Inc.) – past chairman Buck Heath (PAD-CAR Mechanical Ltd.) – Medicine Hat Neil Nunweiler (D M T Mechanical Ltd.) – Lethbridge Ian Reid (Bird Construction Company) – Calgary Jim Clement (Graham Construction & Engineering Inc.) – Calgary Josh Edwards (Scott Builders Inc.) – Red Deer Daryl Blouin (Blouin Electrical Systems Co. Ltd.) – Individual Member Representative Bernal Ulsifer (Creative Glass & Aluminum Ltd.) – Lloydminster Lanny Brown (T-West Construction Ltd.) – Grande Prairie Charles Iggulden (Trade Skills Global Inc.) – Fort McMurray Hayden Gust (T.H. Gust Builders Ltd.) – Peace River The board has approved a number of strategic initiatives on behalf of the members for 2011. Chief among these is a policy review. The review is intended to accomplish the following: • Enhance grassroots input in the review and development of ACA policies.

• Review existing and develop new policies in advance of a new provincial government administration anticipated to be in place after fall 2011. Each of ACA’s standing commitees (Government Action, Research and Technology, Safety/WCB and Standard Practices) will be meeting to complete the following: • Review committee terms of reference. • Review existing ACA public policies and recent policy submissions. • Develop draft policy recommendations for board consideration as a basis for discussion with the next government. • Help ensure that key messages from policies are identified to form part of the media key messages ACA prepares for the ACA and local construction association (LCA) boards. In addition to a review of existing policy documents, LCAs have been invited to submit proposed policy resolutions. The payoff for this work will be more effective advocacy for our member companies to address their issues. The policy review is intended to complement the ongoing work of ACA in executing approved strategic initiatives. Chief among existing initiatives is continued work on advocacy of ACA’s workforce strategy to ensure that the construction industry has sufficient skilled workers to meet future demand and to replace an aging workforce. Future workforce scenarios for the next 10 years produced both by industry and government underline that even if all labour sources within Canada are fully utilized, our industry will still need to recruit beyond Canada’s borders. To that end, ACA is working with other construction associations in Alberta, other

employer associations in Alberta, and the B.C. and Saskatchewan construction associations on advocacy strategies to improve the responsiveness of temporary foreign worker and permanent immigration programs for the unique needs of the construction industry. Maximizing the efficiency of the industry is one means to address skill shortages and is one response of our industry to the competitive agenda of the provincial government. Research undertaken for Productivity Alberta has highlighted the need to boost the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) across all industry sectors. LCAs have provided great leadership in providing ICT solutions for the industry through the electronic plansroom, introduction to Building Information Modeling and the development of e-bidding tools (currently underway). Productivity Alberta and ACA plan to complement this leadership by partnering to accomplish the following: • Provide small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) with the information and tools necessary to make good decisions to evaluate, choose, invest in and adopt ICT (including upgrading systems); • Provide educational opportunities to industry on the benefits to the SME and how to develop a business case for ICT adoption; and • Develop and implement services that will enable SMEs to identify areas of opportunity and action. ACA plans to continue to add information sources to the website to assist member companies in preparing for the future business environment. Check out ACA’s new website, www.albertaconstruction.net, or you can reach us at our new email, info@albertaconstruction.net.

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cca report 1. Colin Rowat of Weldco (left) demonstrates the intricacies of welding. 2. Sean Bartlett of Carbon Constructors Inc. (centre) supervised the building of six dog sheds at the expo. 3. Masonry trade contractors were impressed with girls in attendance who shone at bricklaying. 4. Not only did the students exercise their kinesthetic learning style, they had fun while doing it. Students learned more about the mechanical trade with CCA board member Lorne Chisholm of Chisholm Mechanical Contractors Ltd. (right).

5. CCA board member Barry Young (left) supervises the interactive BURNCO Rock Products Ltd. exhibit. All photos by CCA

IT’S HAMMER TIME By Amy Smith CCA For the fifth consecutive year, the Calgary Construction Association (CCA) along with affiliated industry associations, postsecondary institutions and CCA members hosted the Construction Career Expo at Stampede Park’s BMO Centre on April 14. Despite the 20-centimetre snowfall on the eve of the expo, a record attendance of over 1,300 high school students from Calgary and the surrounding area trekked in to see the career options available in the construction industry. The 50,000-squarefoot construction maze amused the students as over 45 exhibitors highlighted their professions.

The students put their talent to the test using everything from hammers and drills to paintbrushes and trowels. Carpentry, pipefitting and bricklaying are just a few of the many career opportunities available for youth to hone their skills and be proud of their craftsmanship. In addition to the various hands-on activities, students had the opportunity to meet real industry professionals, including carpenters, trade and general contractors, project managers, and presidents of local construction firms. Upon entry into the expo, students were given a black T-shirt encouraging them to “Work Construction in Calgary.”

Also provided to the students was a pair of safety glasses, a “Just Build It” bag and a quiz. Students were challenged to find the answers of the quiz, which were distributed throughout the hall, by interacting with the exhibitors and learning as much as they could about the construction industry during their time on site. Quiz prizes included two 32-gigabyte iPod touches and four Cadillac Fairview $100 gift cards, which are redeemable at Chinook or Market Mall. Following the expo, the CCA received multiple accolades from the high school teachers who brought their students to Alberta Construction Magazine | 95

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CCA TAKES HOME THE GOLD

Members of the CCA team dressed in their Gold Seal Hawaiian shirts/blouses. Front row (from left): Sam Poskovic (EllisDon) with the Montgomery Memorial Award for Innovation in Construction; Joanne Lueken and Brian Lueken (Graham Construction); Heather Reid and Ian Reid (Bird Construction) with Gold Seal Award; and Shelly Kinley and Dave Kinley (Concept Electric). Second row (from left): Scott Thompson (EllisDon); Lauren Mielnichuk and Larry Mielnichuk (Genesis Bldg Corp.); Jenny Robinson and Bob Robinson (Westcor Construction); Bill Flaig (Graham Construction); and Andrew Morgan (Westcor Construction). Top row (left to right) Dave Smith (CCA executive VP); Perri Bromberg and Rob Bromberg (Davidson Enman Lumber); Heather Aitken and Jim Clement (Graham Construction), 2011 CCA president; Heather Flaig; and Janet Morgan.

Mark Heath of Westcor Construction Ltd. (right) operated the aerial lift for hundreds of students.

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The Calgary Construction Association (CCA) was awarded the Canadian Construction Association’s national Gold Seal Award at the national group’s convention on the big island of Hawaii in March. The three initiatives that led to Calgary being the recipient were: 1. Hosting the first designated Gold Seal Project in Alberta—the $1.4 billion South Health Campus. 2. The joint venture with the Alberta Construction Safety Association (ACSA) in hosting an event in celebration of the newly designated Gold Seal occupation of a “Construction Safety Coordinator”

in conjunction with the opening of the new ACSA office for southern Alberta. 3. The “It’s Time to Get Gold Seal Certified” program with 24 CCA member firms being recognized for having the Gold Seal Program as part of their Human Resource practices. Over the past three years, CCA has been leading local construction associations in Canada with the highest number of Gold Seal applications. In 2010, the members of CCA more than doubled the applications of any other Canadian city. Congratulations are in order to all the CCA member companies that have embraced the national Gold Seal Program.

the expo and commented on their appreciation of the industry’s time and expertise given each and every year. Ed Pawliw, a Career and Technology Studies construction and robotics teacher from Bishop O’Byrne High School writes, “I find the whole process to be very user friendly and will participate with my students as long as this event is run. Not only do the students get an opportunity to experience trade areas they may not have been exposed to before, but we also cover a career exploration component in our curriculum and this dovetails perfectly with that.” Each year, the expo is supported by many volunteers who allow everything to take place and enhance the students’ experience. This year, 60 volunteers with bright orange shirts and smiles came to

the expo for a full day of mentoring youth. Volunteers did everything from greeting students on the buses, distributing giveaways at the registration tables, guiding students on the scissor lifts, assisting students’ use of tools and encouraging ongoing participation. All industry participants demonstrated trade processes and helped answer questions that the students had about entering the construction trades. There are a multitude of career options available in this industry that employs (directly or indirectly) one out of nine Canadians. Thank you for the tremendous support by the CCA members, along with the affiliated industry associations, that participated in giving the students a one-ofa-kind experience.

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2010 CCA president Ian Reid presents Elizabeth Cannon, president and vice-chancellor of the University of Calgary, with a limited edition print of Old City Hall.

Kees Cusveller with the Ted Walden Award.

2010 CCA president Ian Reid (far left) with winners of the CCA Education Fund Scholarships (from left): Travis McMillan (Concept Electric), Felix Owusu (Pockar Masonry), Sherry Lawrence (Stuart Olson Dominion), Maria Castilla (ISL Engineering & Land Services), Jamie Sparks (Concept Electric) and Luke Ironside (NVR Construction). Missing is Mylene Theberge (Rubico Framing).

Here are the Gold Seal recipients. Front row (from left): Brad Lamb, Project Manager – Roofing (Skyline Roofing); Anthony Belisle, Project Manager – General Contracting (Persimmon Contracting Ltd.); Ian Reid, Project Manager – General Contracting (Bird Construction); Colin Aitken, Project Manager – General Contracting (Graham Construction); Bill Roberts, Project Manager – Electrical Contracting (Concept Electrical); and Peter Domenjoz, Project Manager – Fire Protection (Viking Fire Protection). Centre row (from left): David Barlow, Superintendent – General Contracting (Chandos Construction); Jeff Schram, Project Manager – Roadbuilding & Heavy Construction (Remington Development Corporation); Kim Enders, Project Manager – Electrical Contracting (Canem Systems); David Geoffrion, Safety Coordinator – Construction (Scott Builders Inc.); Norman Geist, Superintendent – Plumbing (Botting & Associations Ltd.); Colin Barclay, Superintendent – Electrical (Canem Systems Ltd.); and Chris Charlton, Superintendent – General Contracting (Persimmon Contracting Ltd.). Back row (from left): Terry Mitchell, Superintendent – General Contracting (PCL Construction); Don Horn, Estimator – Precast Concrete (Remington Development Corporation); David Rosewarn, Estimator – Reinforcing Steel (Harris Rebar); Jason Taylor, Estimator – Metal Sliding/Decking (Skyline Roofing Ltd.); Larry Fournier, Project Manager – General Contracting (NVR Construction Limited); and Jim Clement, 2011 CCA president (Graham Construction & Engineering).

CCA’s AGM ADVOCATES EDUCATION By Amy Smith CCA

2010 CCA president Ian Reid (far left), 2010 CCA president (left) and co-chair of the On-Site Construction Safety Committee Bob Robinson of Westcor Construction (far right), present the inaugural Partnering with Industry Award to City of Calgary personnel (centre, left to right) Cliff de Jong, Kevin Griffiths and Marco Civitarese.

The Calgary Construction Association (CCA) hosted its 66th annual general meeting on March 2 at the Sheraton Cavalier with 250 guests in attendance. The afternoon meeting commenced with the business program and introductions of the newly elected executive for 2011: president Jim Clement, Graham Construction & Engineering Inc.; senior vice-president Serena Holbrook, Pockar Masonry Ltd.; vice-president Rob Otway, PCL Construction Management Inc.; vice-president Todd Poulsen, Elan Construction Limited; treasurer David Hamilton, Hamilton & Rosenthal, Chartered Accountants; past president Ian Reid, Bird Construction Company; and CCA executive vice-president Dave Smith.

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cca report The evening’s agenda was full of awards and recognition for many of the CCA members who reached personal milestones or made significant contributions to the industry. Ryan Hagen, CCA’s Youth Employment Program (YEP) coordinator, began the program by recognizing a CCA member firm for their outstanding support of the YEP program: Botting & Associates Alberta Ltd. Les LaRocque and Victor Jensen of Botting were presented with the Building Futures Award. Four young men who were successfully placed through the program took home a $500 YEP scholarship. They were Andrew Bowman and Matt Makort of Botting & Associates, Tanner Shaw of Concept Electric Ltd. and Collin Young of Allied Projects Ltd. The chairman of the CCA Education Fund Trustees, Les LaRocque, presented seven individuals who are pursuing postsecondary education to further their careers in the construction industry with $1,000 Education Fund Scholarships. In addition, 2011 CCA president Jim Clement presented 25 individuals with their Gold Seal Certificate in the disciplines of project manager, superintendent, estimator and construction safety coordinator. The Person of the Year Award recognized five individuals for their dedication and work on the new On-Site Construction Safety Guide: Ken Boucher (Ledcor Construction Ltd.), Joe Chisholm (EllisDon Corporation), Syd Hartley (Ledcor), Scott Izon (PCL) and Mike Michalezki (Ledcor). To date, 15,000 On-Site Construction Safety Guides have been circulated.

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For the first time ever, the CCA presented an Industry Partnership Award to three individuals with the city. 2009 CCA president Bob Robinson presented Marco Civitarese, Cliff De Jong and Kevin Griffiths with plaques for their collaborative efforts on the On-Site Construction Safety Committee. The committee’s mandate is to enhance safety on construction sites. The most prestigious honour of the evening, the Ted Walden Award, went to Kees Cusveller of Graham Construction, recognizing his ongoing efforts to enhance the construction industry. Kees has served on a number of committees, including chair of the Alberta Construction Association, along with representing the local construction industry on the Canadian Construction Association board. In addition to the award presentations, Larry Rosia, dean for the School of Construction at SAIT Polytechnic, introduced the recently approved B.Sc. program in Construction Project Management, which will commence in the fall. Each attendee received a brochure with detailed information and a course schedule of the program, the first program of its kind in Canada. The evening concluded with special guest Elizabeth Cannon, the first female president of the University of Calgary. Cannon outlined the university’s priorities and discussed the need for education and innovation, which are two essential ingredients for continued growth and prosperity for Canada.

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This $250,000 cheque to boost apprenticeships in Alberta was matched by the provincial government. Here, Alberta Apprenticeship Industry Training Board chairman Raymond Massey, third from left, receives the cheque from ECA president Paul Verhesen, left, and executive vice-president Darlene La Trace while MLA Doug Horner looks on.

Patrick LaForge, Edmonton Oilers’ president and chief executive officer, was the guest speaker at the AGM and luncheon. LaForge even donned an Oilers’ hardhat.

HUGE ACHIEVEMENTS WITH THE “ECAdvantage” By the ECA The Edmonton Construction Association (ECA) made history with the singlelargest donation made to apprenticeships in Alberta in the amount of $250,000. That amount was matched by government funding, for a total of $500,000. This donation was made possible by all ECA firms and will support 25 additional apprenticeship scholarship awards. ECA now sponsors 55 awards through the Alberta Apprenticeship Industry Training Board (AAITB). AAITB chairman Raymond Massey was on hand at the ECA’s 79th Annual General Meeting and luncheon at the Edmonton EXPO Centre on February 11 to accept the donation. Recovery in motion “Cautious optimism has returned to the construction marketplace and, with that, the hope that we’ll experience expanded opportunities for growth and profitability at a sustainable pace,” says ECA’s 2011 president, Paul Verhesen. Recovery is in

motion and excitement reigns at ECA as the association enters its 80th year of operation. Growing membership ECA experienced yet another year of tremendous growth, a record 648 members and industry guests learned during the AGM and luncheon. For decades it was thought that membership goes up in bad times when firms need the association most, and down in good times when members require less assistance in sourcing procurement opportunities. The old maxim no longer bears truth where ECA is concerned. ECA has bucked all axioms reporting tremendous growth through both the prosperous and tumultuous years. ECA continues to be the fastest-growing local construction association in Canada, increasing membership 84 per cent from 630 to 1,161 since 2002. While plans for the ECA’s big 80th anniversary celebration on October 29 are well underway, the ECA marches on, operating the busiest single plan room in

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Parking increases by 350 stalls Federal and provincial grants cover $21.5 million of the $33.7-million budget. The City of Lethbridge is kicking in $4.3 million, while the Enmax Centre is contributing $7.9 million

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New video scoreboard isn’t just for hockey. Wired into the media deck, it can run pre-produced video and material produced inhouse, or give a live-action look at what’s happening on the floor

Life of facility will be extended 30 years

About 90 per cent of construction waste has been kept out of the landfill. Crushed concrete and masonry is being used on-site for road base while other material has been donated or recycled The number of luxury box suites triples, from eight to 24

Touring shows will be able to hook up buses and park semis in a secure parking lot

Built for the 1975 Canada Winter Games and home to the Lethbridge Hurricanes, the Enmax Centre is a much-loved facility that’s hosted countless events in the last 36 years. That said, the arena has aged and times have changed. In a bid to develop new revenue streams and to create a better user experience, the City of Lethbridge is giving the facility a $33.7-million makeover— without taking a timeout. “The regular seats remain the same, and the ice surface area stays the same,”

says Kim Gallucci, general manager at the Enmax Centre. “Everything else is changing. It will have a totally different look and feel.” The exterior is getting a fresh, modern look, the concourse will be wider and visitors will enjoy open-concept concessions, renovated washrooms and luxury box suites. Actually, the price tag is a bargain compared to the alternative. Demolishing the old arena and building a multi-purpose entertainment centre of the same calibre Alberta Construction Magazine | 107

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An artist's depiction of the completed Enmax Centre.

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from scratch would have cost about $100 million. The expansion and renovation is being done in two phases so that the facility can stay operational. Phase I, which wrapped up in October 2010, involved the construction of new

entrances at the northeastern and northwestern corners of the building. In phase II, a new north-centre por tion is being created to house administration and the Lethbridge Hurricanes’ office.

A standing area along the top has been incorporated into the interior design.

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Goodbye congestion “From our operations side, it’s really good for us, because we’ve eliminated some of the problems we had,” Gallucci says. Congestion in the walkway around the centre is one example. To remedy the problem, concessions, which are all new, have been pushed back 20 feet. With the concessions themselves now equipped with kitchens, people will have fresh, hot food and enough elbow room to get to their seats without spilling a drop. To give news media a better vantage point and to make room for two new box suites, the media box has been moved to hang from the roof. The steel ceiling and hang points—points that bear the weight of the media box as well as the new video scoreboard and equipment that may be brought in for shows—have been upgraded with additional steel bracing so that they can take heavier loads. Able to comfortably host 30 positions, the media box will be equipped with the latest technology, becoming the nerve centre of the building. There will be 24 box suites after the renovation; currently, there are eight. Two styles of suites will be available: an in-bowl suite that is open-concept and gets people close to the action, and others with glass fronts, new millwork and carpeting, and the ability to comfortably accommodate 12 people. A 225-seat lounge and kitchen will be added on the second level. “Now we can get into totally new areas, because we will have full catering services,” Gallucci says. “We can hold trade shows, do different types of entertainment shows, and hold meetings and

reduce, reuse, rejuvenate banquets in our lounge and on our main floor. That not only services Lethbridge and Alberta better, but it provides us with new revenue streams.” An interesting feature is the creation of standing viewing stations for those who like to stay on their feet during events. “Before, people would stand at the railings and watch,” Gallucci says. “They buy seats, but they don’t feel like sitting.” The addition of a small wall with a counter and a backsplash running along the concourse will make standing more enjoyable. Hooks under the counter will hold coats, and footrests will be installed in each standing viewing station so people can take the weight off every so often. Spots will be numbered and can be reserved. Perhaps the most important users of the Enmax Centre are the Hurricanes

A whole new game Like the Enmax Centre, most North American arenas are built to give fans and those who attend other events a better experience. Here’s what you’ll find at other arenas: • Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia features a stunning atrium with a stage offering pre-game entertainment, a video wall and a glass sculpture cas-

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Safe and secure Working in an operating arena has been challenging for everyone involved. “The biggest challenges have been the phasing as well as the protection of the public,” says Jason Shaughnessy, project manager with general contractor Ward Bros. Construction Ltd. The building exterior has been under construction longer than it would have been if all the work could have been done all at once, so Ward Bros. has had to ensure that exterior hoarding is completely weathertight to protect the facility and occupants. Hoarding inside the building has played a key role in ensuring the safety of hockey fans as well. Construction areas are completely separated from public areas and signage is used to keep patrons away from spaces that are under renovation. Safety is also achieved by adjusting schedules. “On event days, we tend to shut down a bit earlier to give the Enmax staff time to do what they need to do and give our staff time to search the public areas to make sure no construction materials have been left out,” Shaughnessy says. Still, the project isn’t expected to go into overtime. The new Enmax Centre should be complete next spring.

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“I didn’t say it was your fault. I said I’m going to blame you.” I first saw this on a T-shirt. I have since seen it on bumper stickers, coffee mugs and most recently, on one of those slightly-absurd-but-not-quiteironic (de)motivational posters you find online or attached to emails. (As an aside, my favourite such poster has the photo of an Imperial Stormtrooper

building owner hired a contractor to install built-up roofing. The owner chose the roofing products to be used and the construction methods to be followed. In particular, the owner specified a particular brand of adhesive to affix the insulation board. The contractor, although experienced, had never used that product in that way on that sort of roof. Indeed,

guaranteed that for five years “all work above specified will remain weathertight and that all material and workmanship employed are first class and without defect.” Well, the roof failed. In three separate windstorms, the insulation peeled away from the steel sheeting. The contractor fixed the damage but sued the owner for the cost. The trial judge

There were no defects in workmanship. Simply put, the contractor was not at fault. But the problem was the warranty. slumped, his helmeted head in his hands. Below him is the message: “REGRET: Those Were The Droids You Were Looking For.”) T his phrase—which decouples blame from fault—also captures, quite nicely, the warranty in some construction contracts. Consider, for example, the classic case of The Steel Co. of Canada v. Willand Management Ltd. (1966). A

the contractor’s general manager had reservations and suggested something else. But when pressed, he agreed to the owner’s request and signed the contract the owner had prepared. “Let’s put it this way,” he said at trial, “I preferred the use of asphalt, but if a customer saw fit to use Curadex, I would go along, certainly, with whatever he saw fit.” The owner’s contract also included a warranty. This warranty said the contractor

found that the adhesive failed, but this was not because of anything the contractor had done. The contractor had used the prescribed materials, in the correct quantities, according to the proper methods—all as specified by the owner in the contract. There were no defects in workmanship. Simply put, the contractor was not at fault. But the problem was the warranty. The contractor had guaranteed—

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To make sense of these cases, remember that a warranty is a promise. It’s an assurance that the work, the materials or the finished product will meet certain standards, and a promise to correct things that don’t. without restriction or reservation— that the roof would remain weathertight and that the materials were first class and without defect. This was an absolute guarantee that the resulting roof would perform to a specified standard. The contractor had agreed to these terms, whether reasonable or not, and had accepted the risk. As a result, the Supreme Court of Canada held that the contractor, and not the owner, had to cover the cost of the repairs. Simply put, the contractor had agreed to take the blame. C ompa re t h i s to t he c a s e of CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Mollenhauer Contracting Co. Ltd. (1975) decided

by the same court nine years later. An owner specified certain brick, which the contractor dutifully installed. The brick turned out to be unsuitable and had to be replaced. But unlike the earlier roofing case (which the Supreme Court of Canada expressly distinguished), the contract here did not include a warranty that the owner-specified material (i.e. brick) was first class, without defect, and would perform to a specified standard. In other words, under this contract, the contractor did not agree to accept the blame for someone else’s mistake. To make sense of these cases, remember that a warranty is a promise. It’s an

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produce aviation fuel. One of the site’s most striking features— the twin pair of 38-foot-diameter Horton spheres—was added in 1942 to store isobutane. But not all the changes were related to oil and gas production. With fears of wartime sabotage in the air, a chain link fence crowned with barbed wire sprung up around the facility, complete with armed guards and a searchlight perched atop the water tower. In 1952, a sulphur extraction plant and propane plant marked the final major additions to the site. Operations continued until 1985, when then-owner Western Decalta Petroleum Ltd. closed the aging plant for good. Three years later, the Alberta government took responsibility for the site. There are no armed guards watching the perimeter anymore, but visitors may still have trouble getting inside these days. A lengthy clean-up process and lack of funding have kept this provincial and national historic site closed to the public in recent years. Alberta government estimates peg the cost of turning the plant into an interpretive centre at $8.5 million.

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