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Fall 2008 The biannual newsmagazine of the OSCO Construction Group CanaportCanaport LNGLNG RegassificationRegassification PlantPlant NearsNears CompletionCompletion M.I.T. Koch Institute • Atlantic Canada’s Largest Parking Garage • Alberta Steel • National Awards for Centerbeam • 2008 OSCORS • +more... CONNECTIONS is the biannual magazine of cover image: the OSCO Construction Group, published every Spring and Fall to share news and information Canaport with our valued customers and employees. LNG Comments and submissions are greatly appreciated and may liquefied natural gas be sent to the editor: (LNG) receiving and Tammy Legacy, c/o OSCO Construction Group regassification 400 Chesley Drive, Saint John, NB • CANADA • E2K 5L6 terminal in Saint John, e-mail: [email protected] New Brunswick. OSCO Photo provided by Canaport LNG construction group OSCO Construction Group members include: steel What’s OCEAN STEEL & CONSTRUCTION LTD - SJ office & plant 400 Chesley Drive, Saint John, NB • CANADA • E2K 5L6 Fax: (506) 632-7689 • Tel: (506) 632-2600 OCEAN STEEL & CONSTRUCTION LTD - Fredericton plant 550 Wilsey Road • Fredericton, NB • CANADA • E3B 7K2 Fax: (506) 444-7978 • Tel: (506) 444-7989 OCEAN STEEL CORPORATION - office & plant Inside... 53 Shaw Road, Conklin, NY • USA • 13748 Fax: (607) 723-4882 • Tel: (607) 584-7500 NEW ENGLAND SALES OFFICE 25 Burlington Mall Road, Burlington, MA • USA • 01803 Fax: (781) 221-2155 • Tel: (781) 221-2152 OSCO REBAR SERVICES - office 400 Chesley Drive, Saint John, NB • CANADA • E2K 5L6 what we do Fax: (506) 632-7689 • Tel: (506) 632-2600 YORK STEEL - metal service center Message from the President.........3 Strescore ...................................16 550 Wilsey Road • Fredericton, NB • CANADA • E3B 7K2 Canaport LNG...........................4-5 Irving Oil Refinery .....................17 Fax: (506) 444-7978 • Tel: (506) 444-7989 MIT Koch Institute.......................6 Precast Pipe Projects.................18 concrete Strescon’s New Office ..................7 Construction Webcams..............18 STRESCON LIMITED - office & plant Halifax Airport Parking Garage....8 Centerbeam Awards...................19 101 Ashburn Road • Saint John, NB • CANADA • E2L 3W2 Shipping Steel to Alberta..............9 Park Place V..............................20 Fax: (506) 632-7576 • Tel: (506) 633-8877 East Saint John Elementary........10 Centerbeam Office Space...........21 STRESCON LIMITED - office & plant pg.7 131 Duke Street • Bedford, NS • CANADA • B4A 3Z8 Residential Garages ...................11 Irving Oil Hangar.......................21 Fax: (902) 494-7401 • Tel: (902) 494-7400 The Waterton.............................12 Ready-Mix News: Biofuels Plant; NEW ENGLAND SALES OFFICE Fordham University ...................13 Skate Park; Montrose Bridge; 25 Burlington Mall Road, Burlington, MA • USA • 01803 Fax: (781) 221-2155 • Tel: (781) 221-2153 Early Childhood Center - Bronx.13 Charlottetown Marine Terminal; Giants Stadium ..........................13 Darotopp Floor Topping..22-23 STRESCON READY-MIX - plant 1212 Berry Mills Road • Moncton, NB • CANADA • E1E 4R8 Pottle Lake Water Treatment......14 Rebar News ...............................24 Fax: (506) 856-5897 • Tel: (506) 858-7110 Westwood Development .......15-16 York Misc Metals News..............25 SCHURMAN CONCRETE - office & plant 240 MacEwen Road • PO Box 1416 • Summerside, PE CANADA • C1N 4K2 Fax: (902) 888-2959 • Tel: (902) 888-4331 SCHURMAN CONCRETE - office & plant 412 Mount Edward Road • Charlottetown, PE how we do it CANADA • C1A 7L3 Fax: (902) 566-1169 • Tel: (902) 628-0127 pg.26 2008 OSCORS ......................26-27 High School Partnership............29 Profile: OSCO-SJ Shop ...............28 IT Backup Vault.........................30 construction Bursary Program.......................29 Strescon Renovation Update....30-31 FCC CONSTRUCTION - office Greenslade Bursary ...................29 OSCO Corp Milestone...................31 400 Chesley Drive • Saint John, NB • CANADA • E2K 5L6 Fax: (506) 632-1108 • Tel: (506) 632-7800 MARQUE CONSTRUCTION - office PO Box 6623 • 400 Chesley Drive • Saint John, NB • CANA- DA • E2L 4S1 Fax: (506) 632-1108 • Tel: (506) 634-1144 who we are KENNEBEC CONSTRUCTION - office 400 Chesley Drive • Saint John, NB • CANADA • E2K 5L6 Picnic ........................................32 Group Golf.................................34 Fax: (506) 632-1108 • Tel: (506) 632-7800 Group Retirees ..........................33 Fresh Faces ..................................35 For more information on our companies, Rally of Hope.............................33 Congratulations ............................35 please check out website at: pg.32 Blood Donors............................34 10 Years of Connections .Back cover www.oscoconstructiongroup.com CONNECTIONS • Fall 2008 what we do Message from the President This has been another exciting year for our group. Our geo- ing production in the winter. We are also in the midst of replacing graphic diversity and multi-discipline construction ability has our out-of-date main electrical and sewage services at this plant. never been greater. We have participated in several interesting and Our administration group has been very involved in keeping challenging projects from New York City - to Fort McMurray, up with our growth. Our human resources department successful- Alberta - to Hamilton, Bermuda. We have provided complex, ly took over the direct administration of our pension, health and structural steel for a new fine arts museum in Boston. We are welfare plans. Our recruiting and employee satisfaction initiatives completing our largest precast concrete parking garage at the are being actively reviewed and enhanced. In the IT area, we con- Halifax International Airport which we designed, manufactured tinue to add capacity and redundancy to our network systems to and erected all with our own talented group. We undertook to ensure no downtime is experienced. A new back-up generator is fast-track the instrumentation work for the Canaport LNG plant in being installed at our main computer room in case of a prolonged Saint John. We provided eye-catching power outage. More bandwidth is being architectural precast wall panels for As we mature as a group, added to our network to improve user high-rise residential and office build- we have become more response time. ings. Our Canadian hollow core confident as a team and In summary, all of our business sec- concrete plank market continues to tors have been very active. As we mature as grow; from floors for single family have undertaken larger and a group, we have become more confident homes to roofs for the Canadian armed more complex projects. as a team and have undertaken larger and forces. Our civil group was also suc- Our group now has more complex projects. Our group now cessful in obtaining the construction significant ability to has significant ability to weather any management for the head frames at the weather any regional regional downturns, both financially and new potash mine near Sussex, New downturns, both financially operationally. Together we have built a Brunswick. and operationally. strong construction entity to quickly adapt With respect to capital improve- to whatever lies ahead. In these turbulent ments, we have invested heavily in times, it is important that we stay focused maintaining our facilities. We modernized our Moncton ready mix on our mission “To provide valued construction solutions using facility and built new offices for our growing concrete sector staff. our expertise in the design, manufacture & installation of building We also updated our ready mix fleet with several new delivery components”. Let’s continue to “pay attention to the details” to trucks and added cement storage capacity in Saint John. In our satisfy to the greatest extent possible all the needs of our cus- Saint John reinforcing steel facility we added additional capacity tomers. for bending and cutting rebar. At our Canadian structural steel Once again, we could not have accomplished as much as we facilities, we purchased updated welding equipment for steel have without the dedication and hard work of all our employees, platework to improve our productivity in this important area. In both in our plants and offices. Thanks for your continued support our American structural steel plant, we rebuilt several of our and happy holidays to overhead cranes to eliminate unnecessary downtime during pro- all of you and your duction. In our Halifax precast plant we installed a rapid-fire families!! Hans O. Klohn heating system to give us more and faster hot water capacity dur- President, OSCO Construction Group CONNECTIONS • Fall 2008 3 what we do 4 CONNECTIONS • Fall 2006 what we do THE CHALLENGES Any project of this magnitude brings challenges to the table. The site Marque Rises to employs an average of 1500 workers, which not surprisingly, can cause some congestion. Delivery delays of mechanical piping material have compounded this challenge. Communication and cooperation between Challenges of contractors has been invaluable. Furthermore, since this is the first terminal of its type on Canadian soil, it needs to be individualized to the site. The designers are therefore committed to working closely with field personnel to ensure success. This Canaport LNG cooperative relationship has resulted in modifications to the drawings, which then need to be implemented. Although this constant state of - contributed by Adam Legere, Marque Construction Steel change