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PROJECT NAME
South LRT Extension
CLIENT: THE CITY OF EDMONTON
Expanding Edmonton’s Light Rail Transportation (LRT) System The South LRT extension involves multiple projects over a three-year period, including the construction of a transit system within an active road right-of-way and an LRT maintenance storage facility. The extension of the D.L. MacDonald maintenance facility renovates the existing facility and constructs a new right-of-way and blow down buildings that are also used for maintenance and administration offices. We helped the City of Edmonton lower costs through value engineering solutions, which helped accelerate the schedule by three months. The multiple projects over the three-year period exemplify PCL’s strong relationship and collaborative approach with the City of Edmonton to ensure their transit system gives riders and the operations the highest quality transportation system.
PROJECT NAME
16 York
CLIENT: THE CADILLAC FAIRVIEW CORPORATION LIMITED
Connected Prestige Located at the intersection of Bremner and York Streets in Toronto’s dynamic business core, 16 York offers unmatched access with a direct link to the City’s 30-kilometerbelow-grade underground pedestrian PATH network. The premium 33-story, 870,000 square foot office building is a beam and girder concrete structure that includes four levels of below grade parking and secure underground parking for 331 bicycles, complete with change and shower facilities. Designed with Occupants in Mind Focused on workplace performance and wellbeing, 16 York incorporates open, flexible floors and floor-to-ceiling windows. Targeting LEED® Platinum certification and WELL Building Standards, this office tower provides optimal operational efficiency, performance, and comfort. The welcoming main lobby is finished with stone and wood while a dramatic wrap-around, humidity canopy features a green roof. Innovation at Work To drive value to our client's bottom line, we implemented our Job Site Insights™ (JSI™) smart construction platform and innovative sensor technology to monitor and analyze flood, leak detection, temperature and humidty levels on-site. The system at 16 York consists of four sensors on each floor with a total of 200 sensors on site. The data is streamed 24/7 through the cloud (our unique IoT hub) to a digital dashboard where we can detect and mitigate potential risks early, in addition to optimizing construction processes, accelerating schedule and reducing costs based on real time data. For example, monitoring concrete cure times facilitated getting follow-up trades on site sooner and accelerated the work sequence.
PROJECT NAME
Kearl Oil Sands Project Utilities Expansion & North & South Tank Farms
CLIENT: KEARL OIL SANDS PROJECT
Premium Oil Production Kearl is home to one of Canada’s highest-quality oil sand deposits and largest open-pit mining operations. With regulatory approval to produce up to 345,000 barrels of bitumen per day, it’s estimated that one in every eight barrels of oil in Canada is produced at Kearl. Built in three stages, Kearl was developed with a "design one, build many" approach to its facilities. We worked on all three stages of Kearl’s development and provided fabrication and modularization for the project. Initially Imperial Oil planned on having the fabrication of the modules done overseas, but as the transportation route was finalized, they realized transporting them through the last leg of the journey was virtually impossible. Instead the modules were cut into smaller pieces and transported to ICG’s industrial fabrication yard, where we reassembled the units into the original shipping configuration and shipped them to site. To offset any delays associated with module transportation, we worked with Imperial Oil to identify available work fronts that we could execute without the modules to minimize the impacts to the overall schedule. In the first phase we assembled 134 modules, erected four steam boilers, and constructed a water treatment plant, two ponds, and a 72-kV electrical distribution system. In the second phase, the team assembled 150 modules, erected four steam boilers and constructed a water treatment plant, an electrical distribution system and a 72 KV distribution system. The final scope of the project was a tank farm for which we installed 18 pipe-rack modules, two vapor recovery units (VRUs), 29 pieces of equipment and pipe rack tie-ins. Kearl represents the next generation of oil sands mining and was built with technological innovations that reduce cost.
PROJECT NAME
The Exchange
CLIENT: OSED HOWE STREET VANCOUVER GP INC. FOR AND ON BEHALF OF OSED HOWE STREET LP
Tower Looks Like a Pinstripe Business Suit We don’t have to tell you how interesting it is to construct a building from scratch, but to build it over top of another building without manipulating that existing building is a feat. Our professionals, using their skills as solution-providers and innovative thinkers, can make anything work, and they gladly accepted the challenge knowing that it meant allowing the client to turn their dreams into a reality. Take an 11-story 1927 Heritage Building that is the existing Old Stock Exchange in downtown Vancouver. Now imagine the client asking you to build a 375-foot tower (31-stories) with seven levels of underground parking around and on top of it while retaining the structure, façade and key interior features. It’s like taking a cardboard box and placing it directly over another box. With zero room to maneuver around the outskirts of the building perimeter due to space limitations and neighbors almost attached, our preplanning and coordination expertise would be essential. Our challenge was wrapping the new tower from ground level to the roof on the existing heritage building by all three sides of the façade and then extending it over the top and up towards the sky. The result is a tower wrapped in curtainwall that has distinct vertical mullions giving the impression of a pinstriped business suit, made to look like it is sitting on top of the heritage building. Adding to the uniqueness of the entire project was our ability to work collaboratively with our partners to restore the main lobby and elevator lobby with Italian plaster and an art floor paying tribute to the history of the Old Stock Exchange.
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