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The Ordnance Building: Rejeuvenated SJ Military Landmark Celebrates Grand Re-Opening spring & summer 2011 The biannual newsmagazine of t he OSCO Construction Group The Ordnance Building: Rejeuvenated SJ Military Landmark Celebrates Grand Re-Opening Stretch Program • Steel Bridges • UNBSJ • Stormceptor • Nugget Pond Milling Facility • Recruitment Initiatives • 25 Year Club pg.8 pg.17 pg.37 What’s Inside... spring & summer 2011 3 Message from the President 28 Picadilly Update 30 York Miscellaneous Metals Updates priorities 31 FCC Takes on Electrical & Cabling Contract for New Data Centre 4 Safety: Stretch Program 31 Saint John Interchange 5 Group Safety News 6 Quality Control Updates profiles 7 Environment: Greening Our Precast Processes 20 Customer Profile: PCL projects public & community 8 Ocean Steel Bridges the Gap 36 Helping Hands Penniac Bridge & McAdam Railway Line 36 Habitat for Humanity 10 Newly Restored Landmark Opens its Doors OSCO Concrete donates ready-mix for Rothesay home FCC Construction wraps up work on The Ordnance Building 36 Take Our Kids to Work Day 12 Bins, Chutes & Ducts Ocean Steel dedicating more resources to growing structural platework 37 Building Futures in Uganda market Ocean Steel shop electrician takes an eye-opening journey to Uganda 13 UNBSJ OSCO Group leaves its mark on local university campus people 14 Pipe Division Update: Profile on Stormceptor 32 25 Year Club Dinner 14 Wing Greenwood Healthcare Facility; Point Pleasant Park; Memorial University Parking Garage; Goose Bay Airport 33 OSCORS Employee Recognition Dinner 16 IOR Energy & Utilities Maintenance Facility 34 Recruitment Initiatives 17 Hatheway Labour Monument 35 Home Grown Talent FCC takes proactive approach to finding skilled tradespeople 18 Courtney Bay Terminal Dock 1 38 Holiday Lunches 19 A Golden Opportunity OSCO fabricates steel for Nugget Pond Milling Facility 39 Irving Hockey League 22 Rebar Update 39 Upcoming Events Misc Jobs; Route 1 Gateway Project; Syncrolift & Submarine Shed 39 Fresh Faces 25 Fuel Gas Containment Project 39 Congratulations 25 Irving Oil “Refresh” Project 40 Our Locations 26 Pouring it On: Ready Mix Project Updates OSCO Kildare Bridge; Strescon Architectural Batch Plant; Darnley Bridge; West- construction wood Apartments; Dr. George Dumont Hospital group CONNECTIONS is the biannual magazine of the OSCO on the cover... Construction Group, published every Spring and Fall to share news and information with our valued customers & employees The Ordnance Building celebrated its Grand Re- Opening this past January. See page 10 for the Comments and submissions are greatly appreciated and may be sent to the editor: Tammy Legacy, c/o OSCO Construction Group full story of the restoration of one of Saint John’s 400 Chesley Drive, Saint John, NB • Canada • E2K 5L6 historic military landmarks. email: [email protected] 2 CONNECTIONS • Spring & Summer 2011 www.oscoconstructiongroup.com Message from the President The OSCO Construction Group has with many influential EPC contractors concrete, electrical, civil construction, a long history of successful projects in and engineers to promote our services. instrumentation and reinforcing steel the heavy industrial construction sector. As highlighted in this edition, this has businesses all have healthy backlogs go- In several recent editions of Connec- allowed us to expand our reach into ing into the summer months. tions, we have featured the Picadilly western Canada, northern Ontario and Overall we have weathered the Potash Project in Sussex, N.B.. Although Ocean Steel has done some very large We’re very proud that our customer, AMEC/Cementa- industrial contracts in the past, this proj- ect will be the largest structural steel tion/Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, chose to project in our history. We’re very proud single source the entire structural steel package with that our customer, AMEC/ Cementation/ Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, Ocean Steel given the very competitive steel market. chose to single source the entire struc- I can only attribute this to the extraordinary perfor- tural steel package with Ocean Steel given the very competitive steel market. mance by our engineering & drawing, projecting, I can only attribute this to the extraor- purchasing, fabrication, erection and associated dinary performance by our engineer- ing & drawing, projecting, purchasing, supporting personnel. fabrication, erection and associated supporting personnel. At the same time, Newfoundland to participate in several worst financial recession in recent several of our other divisions have also mining projects. memory stronger than ever. As high- received repeat work at the Picadilly At the same time, the tar sands lighted in the previous edition, we have Potash Project, including civil construc- development in Alberta has also come a large capital investment program tion, reinforcing steel, precast concrete, back to life with the rapid escalation underway in several of our businesses. electrical and instrumentation. All of the of oil prices. We believe this is another We plan to continue to diversify our aforesaid experience has significantly important opportunity for our structural geographic markets, customer base and enhanced our group’s reputation in the steel group to obtain work in the future. products & services. Yet, we will at all mining sector. Both of these heavy industrial markets times remain focused on what we do Currently, Canadian mining is expe- are vital for our structural steel busi- best: “To provide our customers with riencing one of its biggest growth peri- ness given the depressed local market valued construction solutions using our ods ever recorded. Numerous projects conditions in Atlantic Canada and the expertise in the design, manufacture & have been announced in all regions of United States. Unfortunately, the Ameri- installation of building components.” Canada to obtain such commodities as can market remains slow with very little In these times of great turmoil, many iron ore, zinc, copper, gold, potash and private capital investment. We don’t see opportunities for our group will emerge. other valuable resources. High demand much improvement to this situation until With our highly talented people and for Canada’s minerals from emerg- sometime in 2012. Our plant in Bing- experience, no doubt the future for the ing countries, such as China and India, hamton, New York is still struggling to OSCO Construction Group will continue should ensure that this industry will obtain local work; instead it has found to be bright. invest in some major construction proj- some success in the Bermuda market. ects for many years to come. Over the In contrast, the Maritime market past several months, we have attended remains reasonably good for all our several mining trade shows and visited other divisions. Our ready mix, precast Hans O. Klohn President, OSCO Construction Group www.oscoconstructiongroup.com CONNECTIONS • Spring & Summer 2011 3 priorities: safety Coming Soon to a Site Near You... contributed by KELLY WILLISTON employee morale. Employees, as a group, are getting together before their shift with a common focus and starting the day Whether you work in construction, manufacturing, retail, on the right foot. Many participants have taken the initiative or health care, the most common injuries in any work place are to personally thank Management and the Safety Department, Musculoskeletal Injuries (MSI), often referred to as “Pulls and stating they believe they feel better and more alert since be- Strains”. These are the sprains, strains and tears of soft tissues ginning the program. Some have even confided that they are including muscles, ligaments, tendons, nerves, blood vessels, stretching at home and encouraging their family members to and joints. The primary risk factors include overexertion, re- do the same. petitive motions, and postures. When diagnosed, these injuries One year has passed since Marque Industrial started the cover a wide variety of conditions including carpal tunnel syn- Stretch Program at Irving Oil Refinery. Since this time the drome, tendinitis, and bursitis. Unfortunately, Musculoskeletal program has received many accolades and recognition from Injuries are not only the most common form of work place in- our client and from other contractors. In fact, similar Stretch juries, they also result in the most lost time and are the number one Many participants have taken the initiative to personally thank type of recurring injury. Sadly, evidence from the Management and the Safety Department, stating they believe lasting impacts of these injuries is they feel better and more alert since beginning the program. easily recognized on many work sites. Too many experienced workers have accepted the suffer- Programs have since been implemented by almost every other ing, directly caused by workplace injuries, as just a part of their contractor under the Major Projects Division at the Irving Oil job. Unfortunately, for the most part, this suffering may well be Refinery! Today all Marque Industrial projects and sites are par- endured long after retirement. ticipating in and enjoying the benefits of our Stretch Program. Recognizing the seriousness of this issue, the OSCO Following these positive results, we commenced a similar Construction Group explored options to reduce their rate of program with Ocean Steel Rebar Division during the summer of MSIs. Initiatives included having quarterly toolbox meetings 2010 and, most recently, Strescon Saint John in February 2011. focused on safe lifting and postures, updating our video
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