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spring & summer 2012 The biannual newsmagazine of t he OSCO Construction Group Picadilly Potash Mine Update • OSCO Group Welcomes New Companies • Alberta Steel Modules • • Co-Location in Cambridge • Bank of Montreal • Moosehead • pg.9 pg.10 pg.36 What’s Inside... spring & summer 2012 3 Message from the President 24 Red Rose Tea Building Lobby Renovations FCC Construction 7 Special Announcement: Welcome to MacLean”s Ready-Mix & Maclean’s Trucking 25 Maximizing Infrastructure Dollars: How Strescon helped Fairfield, ME achieve success without cost of outside contractors 39 Coming Events 26 Co-Location: BIM and Co-Location for a Model 40 Our Locations Project Ocean Steel selected to join team bringing Cambridge, MA project to reality priorities 28 Rebar Division Update Misc Jobs; Turtle Creek Dam Expansion; Shaunslieve Apartment Complex 4 Group Safety News 29 CIBC Bank Building 5 Safety Essentials FCC Construction, Ocean Steel, OSCO Rebar, Strescon & OSCO Concrete 6 Quality Control Spotlight: Saint John Cruise Terminal II 30 Atlantic Wallboard Marque Construction 35 Environmental Report Card 30 Miscellaneous Metals Division Update 31 Mixing Up a Match in Dieppe, NB projects Strescon rises to the challenge of matching 20 year old precast on expan- sion project 8 Alberta Oil Sands Project: Ocean Steel 9 Waterloo House, Bermuda: Ocean Steel public & community 10 Welcome Back, BMO: FCC Civil Division prepares heritage building for the return of its original tenant. 32 Connecting with the Community 12 Brewing Up and Expansion at Moosehead Steel Program May Utilize Ocean Steel Shop for Work Term Training; Helping Hands; Kids to Work Day; Movember Marque Construction 34 Connecting with our Clients 13 One Person’s Trash is Another Person’s Clean Energy Strescon e-newsletter; Gerald Grassby takes over New England precast Ocean Steel Corp provides steel for the 2nd largest landfill gas to en- sales from Doug Cringan ergy facility in the US 14 Picadilly Potash: Mine Supply Air Building; Production & Service Shafts; Production & Service Headframes; Misc E & I; Zone C Liner people 17 OSCO Sends Steel to Saskatchewan Potash Mine 35 Employee Recognition Awards 18 2135 Tons of Steel & Many Miles Later, Snow Lake 36 25 Year Club Welcomes 6 New Members Project Winds Down: Ocean Steel 38 Irving Hockey League Action 20 Irving Oil Refinery:Mid Continent Crude Offloading; Lighting Panels; New Modular Complex; FCCU CO2 Analyzer Upgrade; East Saint 38 Congratulations Melissa Patterson John Terminals Interceptor Trench Sump System; Plant 45 Pump House 38 Holiday Lunches 22 Pouring it On: Ready Mix Project Updates 39 Fresh Faces OSCO Safety, Quality & Schedule; Capital Acquisitions; Busy winter for Halifax construction 24 300,000 Square Feet & Counting 39 Congratulations group Strescon supplies Strescore for 3rd building at CFB Gagetown CONNECTIONS is the biannual magazine of the OSCO on the cover... Construction Group, published every Spring and Fall to share Ocean Steel’s Rebar division is currently working on news and information with our valued customers & employees the Zone C Liner at the Picadilly Potash Mine. This Comments and submissions are greatly appreciated and may be sent to tricky installation requires rebar to be placed in a shaft the editor/designer: Tammy Legacy, c/o OSCO Construction Group approximately 900 meters underground. 400 Chesley Drive, Saint John, NB • Canada • E2K 5L6 email: [email protected] 2 CONNECTIONS • Spring & Summer 2012 www.oscoconstructiongroup.com Message from the President This year should prove to be another ex- now have a total of 11 ready mix facili- we are encouraged with the activity we citing one for our group. Although work ties in the Maritime provinces: 2 in New currently see in the New England region. in New Brunswick has slowed consider- Brunswick, 4 in Prince Edward Island ably, we see good opportunities in other and 5 in Nova Scotia. In our concrete In our construction sector, we are areas of Canada and to some degree in sector, one of our goals is to make our keeping our civil, electrical and instru- the United States. In our local eastern sales volume in the ready mix concrete mentation crews busy; this is despite the Canadian market, the Halifax region business equal to that in the precast aforementioned slowdown in the New is expected to enjoy significant activ- concrete area. We are well on our way Brunswick economy. This is another ex- ity with the recent award by the federal to making this happen! The ready mix ample of the reputation we have earned government of the $25 Billion shipbuild- business is also highly complementary together with our customers. ing contract to the Halifax Shipyard. At to our growing rebar business; wherever One of the main differentiators today the same time, Newfoundland is still ready mix concrete is consumed so is between a company and its competitors going through a robust construction reinforcing steel. These businesses also is the ability to execute. Many business- cycle from the offshore oil and mining are great complementary products to es today have spent much time and ef- industries. Out in western Canada, we structural steel and precast concrete: fort on strategy and planning; but when remain involved with projects associated if our customers aren’t using steel or it comes to getting things done, they with the oil tar sands in Alberta and the precast for a project, then we can offer fail. If our competitors are executing potash mines in Saskatchewan. a cast-in-place concrete alternative. As our geographic reach grows, we Many businesses today have spent much time and effort on strategy and planning; have adapted our but when it comes to getting things done, they fail. If our competitors are executing procedures & better than we are, then eventually we will fall to the wayside. processes to suc- cessfully execute projects further and further from our We are also pleased to see steady better than we are, then eventually we facilities and our home territory. We improvement in the structural steel and will fall to the wayside. For this reason, have also increased our marketing and precast concrete markets in the eastern our Group highly values EXECUTION: sales presence across Canada which United States. We have recently landed the discipline of getting things done. has opened up new opportunities for several jobs in the Boston area for both As we look to 2012, we will continue our structural steel business. These steel and architectural precast concrete to align our processes and recognition initiatives would not have been possible wall panels. This has helped our Conk- systems towards this discipline on our without the dedication and willing- lin, New York steel facility to finally get mission of “providing our customers ness of our employees to adapt to the a reasonable backlog of work and to with valued construction solutions using changing market conditions. meet our required production targets. our expertise in the design, manufacture It’s been a long and tough road for our & installation of building components”. At the same time, we continue on our employees in New York and I want to path of enhancing and diversifying our thank them all for sticking with our product mix. We recently announced group during the past few years to make the acquisition of another ready mix it through this very severe recession in company; MacLean’s Ready Mix Con- the United States. Although the mid-At- Hans O. Klohn crete, based in Prince Edward Island. We lantic market is still not back to normal, President, OSCO Construction Group www.oscoconstructiongroup.com CONNECTIONS • Spring & Summer 2012 3 priorities: safety & quality Group Safety News Congratulations to Dave Brown of Ocean Steel’s Saint John, NB shop, winner of some great door prizes at the safety celebrations for 50,000 safe manhours. Dave is shown on the right, being congratulated with General Manager, Harrison Wilson. fasciitis involves pain and inflamma- Congratulationswithout to Strescon-Bedford a Lost Time Accident! tion of a thick band of tissue, called 550,000Change hours for the Better the plantar fascia, that runs across the bottom of your foot and con- KELLY WILLISTON toes and squatting much like they did contributed by nects your heel bone to your toes. on last summers camping excursion. Alan shared that, over the years, he We demand it, we crave it, but when Of course, the intent was never to had tried to alleviate the condition it gets here, many of us instinctively embarrass or make anyone uncom- with pain killers to no avail, so he resist it...”Change” can be a challeng- fortable, but we knew we were asking just accepted the pain as part of his ing aspect for many of us. a lot of our workforce. For the most life. Remarkably, Alan says that the part, the response was actually very - pain associated with this condition The OSCO plants have been partici good. Sure, it took a little convincing, lessened to the point of almost non- pating in the Stretch Program for but the motive was always to reduce existence, which he attributes entirely the better part of a year now. This the amount of soft tissue injuries. group of workers is highly skilled, to the stretches in our program! experienced, and for the most part, Why? Because something we clearly For Alan, a side effect of the Stretch extremely long term employees. recognize is that, our employees are Program has been being able to carry These workers have repeatedly our most valuable resource. We need out his day without pain, so he now produced some of the highest quality them. We need them healthy. also starts his weekends by perform - workmanship some of our clients ing our stretches as well.