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The Hans W. Klohn Commons Building: OSCO Group Cofounder Honoured by UNBSJ fall & winter 2011 The biannual newsmagazine of t he OSCO Construction Group The Hans W. Klohn Commons Building: OSCO Group Cofounder Honoured by UNBSJ Lalor Project • Picadilly Update • Ocean Properties • Strescon Installs Largest Stormceptor in Atlantic Canada • 2011 OSCOR Winners pg.13 pg.21 pg.27 What’s Inside... fall & winter 2011 3 Message from the President 21 Strescon Sells Strescore Down by the Seashore Strescon carries on long tradition with Ocean Properties, Bar Harbor, ME priorities 22 Rebar Update Misc Jobs; Route 1 Bridge Piers; Baker Drive Apartment Building 4 Safety Recognition Program 23 Marque Industrial Updates Irving Pulp & Paper; Moosehead Breweries; Irving Oil Refinery 4 Group Safety News 4 Quality Control Updates 24 Miscellaneous Metals Division 24 Princess Margaret’s Bridge 26 Environment: Sustainability 24 McAdam Logging Bridges 28 Infrastructure: One World XE to E9 Upgrade 26 Infrastructure: Strescon Batch Plant Strescon-SJ Installs New Concrete Batching Plant for Architectural Precast public & community 34 Connecting with the Community Steel Day; National Precast Day; Extreme Makeover - School Edition; projects Strescon Ready-Mix Donates to Kingston Soccer Clubhouse 6 Hans W. Klohn Commons New UNBSJ Showpiece Named in Honour of OSCO Construction Group Cofounder people 9 Irving Families Donate $3M for New UNBSJ Building 27 H.W.K. Honoured with Doctorate Degree 10 Lalor Project Ocean Steel Supplies & Erects Over 2000 Tons in Snow Lake, Mani- 30 OSCORS Employee Recognition Dinner toba 33 Human Resources News 12 Picadilly Update 33 Retirement Lane Mine Supply Air Building; Production & Service Head Frames; Conveyor Richard Melanson; Daniel Vienneau; Ronald Basque; Doug Garnett; Gallery #3 Installation; Raw Ore Building Paul McDermott; Maurice Devost; Joe Crowley; Vernon (Joe) Mullin; 14 Pipe Division Update: John Ross; Joe Rector; Steve Handrahan & Bill Davis. Highway 1 Project & Largest Stormceptor Installation in Atlantic Canada 37 Group Golf Tournament 16 Red Rose Tea Window Repair & Tenant Work 38 Strescon Golf Tournament 16 Atlantic Wallboard Rail Car Unloading Shed 38 Group Picnic 17 Taking Teamwork to the Bank 39 OSCO Bursary Winners OSCO Group Members Cooperate on CIBC Bank Project 39 Fresh Faces 17 Moncton High School Electrical Upgrade 39 Congratulations OSCO 18 Pouring it On: Ready Mix Project Updates construction Safety; capital expenditures; quality control; material supply; market 40 Our Locations leadership; plant, fleet & project updates group CONNECTIONS is the biannual magazine of the OSCO on the cover... Construction Group, published every Spring and Fall to share The Grand Opening of the Hans W. Klohn Commons news and information with our valued customers & employees Building was held this fall. See page 6 for the full Comments and submissions are greatly appreciated and may be sent to story on this spectacular new addition to the Univer- the editor/designer: Tammy Legacy, c/o OSCO Construction Group sity of New Brunswick’s Saint John campus. 400 Chesley Drive, Saint John, NB • Canada • E2K 5L6 email: [email protected] 2 CONNECTIONS • Fall & Wintercover 2011 photo: Rod Stears Photography www.oscoconstructiongroup.com Message from the President As you read this issue of Connections, batching facility. Commissioning of the our steel over great distances in the past, you will see numerous examples of the plant is underway and we anticipate a such as Fort McMurray, Alberta. Our qual- dedication and passion that our employ- major improvement in the consistency of ity has always been very good so potential ees bring to their jobs each and every day. our architectural concrete mixes while at fabrication mistakes were not of concern. Safety Programs the same time reducing our manufactur- In fact, we extended our normal scope of We continue to enhance our safety programs to make them more respon- This will be the most sophisticated concrete batching sive to the needs of both our employees and our customers. Several of our larger facility in North America requiring highly skilled people Owner-customers now use internet-based to fully utilize all of its features. safety monitoring systems, such as ISNet- world, to collect safety statistics for their ing costs. This will be the most sophisti- work to include the supply and installation suppliers & contractors. Contractors who cated concrete batching facility in North of insulated wall cladding and roofing for do not meet required safety standards are America requiring highly skilled people to the buildings. excluded from bidding on any of these fully utilize all of its features. Nevertheless, Owners’ work. Safety standards may be given the existing experience and knowl- Pipe, Rebar, Ready-Mix specified for work done in both manufac- edge of our employees, we are confident & Construction turing facilities and on the jobsite. Health we have the talent to make this state-of- Our concrete pipe employees are & safety is our number one priority in the art facility perform as promised. tackling some the biggest jobs we have everything we do. At the same time, Own- ever done; our rebar business is meet- ers of larger, capital-intensive projects are Information Technology ing the challenge of installing very large demanding higher safety standards for all On another front, we were very suc- bridge piers which require specialized lift- participants involved in their projects. As cessful in upgrading our “backbone” Ora- ing and installation procedures; our ready we continue to develop our geographical cle Enterprise One software. This techni- mix group continues making improve- territory for structural steel, it is imperative cally complicated conversion had a very ments on all fronts; and, our construc- that we meet these safety standards; not large user base and how well we were tion sector remains very active in a large only for our customers but for ourselves!! able to switch over would affect virtually variety of civil and electrical projects. everyone in our group. Luckily for us, our Precast Concrete information technology team planned All of the aforesaid are great illustra- In our precast concrete business, with great military precision, plenty of tions of the day-to-day challenges that strategic planning meetings have been training & practice runs and good com- we, as a group, are prepared to take on underway to review our engineering, munication to our entire user community. and execute successfully. This diversity manufacturing and installation processes The conversion itself went without a hitch and “can-do” attitude is what makes our with the objective of improving quality and we are very fortunate to have such a work exciting and rewarding for all con- and productivity. One of the key obstacles great group of individuals. cerned. As the world continues to change, we faced in Saint John was the ability to so do we! I’m looking forward to 2012 and compete with other precasters in mak- Structural Steel want to thank all of our employees for ing high-quality, competitively priced You will also read about our first their efforts in 2011. architectural wall panels; particularly for major industrial steel project in northern our market in the New England states. Manitoba. Despite the great distance and The net result was the significant capital remoteness of this project, we were confi- Hans O. Klohn investment we made in our new concrete dent we would perform. We have shipped President, OSCO Construction Group www.oscoconstructiongroup.com CONNECTIONS • Fall & Winter 2011 3 priorities: safety & quality Group Safety Board Safety Recognition: A New Approach contributed by ROB FELTUS further review and amendments, the new program was approved by upper Manage - Although most of our operations have ment. had “Safety Incentive” programs for ten The new Safety Recognition program years or more, the trends in safety manage - is simpler, more flexible, and easier to ment systems have been changing. Today administer. It also encourages more direct there is more emphasis on “Behaviour- involvement by operations management. Based” systems and less focus on tradition - Team Recognition focuses on milestones al incentives. In fact, the OSHA administra - and accomplishments. Milestones include tion in the USA has taken a hard-line stance hours worked without injury and, where against traditional incentive programs, cit- applicable, kilometers driven without ing them as discouraging both employees vehicle accidents. Team accomplishments and employers from reporting injuries and include “Best in Class” and “Best Improve - illnesses. At the same time, there are still ment”, as defined by safety performance agencies that support variations of these indicators. programs, although with specific caveats. Individual Recognition, where ap - Many of our partners still encourage us to plicable, includes years of service free from recognize good loss control performance, injury and vehicle accidents. It also includes including ISNetworld, NSCSA, C-TPAT, our “Over and Above” activities such as identi - insurance carriers, and our clients. L Stresconto R – Rick Bedford Digout fying potential security threats, suggestions Under this current climate, we felt that leading to improvement, acts of heroism, works(Joint 36Health months & it was time to reassess our approach. A poll and involvement in First Aid and H&S Com - of our Managers, Supervisors, and Safety Safetywith no Committee), Lost Time mittee capacities. Coordinators indicated that they believed
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