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connections the biannual newsmagazine of the OSCO Construction Group 1966 2016 Marque Construction spring & summer 2016 • Saint John Water Project • Embassy Suites • Irving Fuelling Stations • • Nabisco Plant • Salem Harbor Energy Center • Toolhound • the biannual newsmagazine of spring & summer 2016 connections the OSCO Construction Group what’s inside projects 4 .....Saint John Water Project 19 ...Concrete Pipe 28 ...Irving Oil Head Office 6 .....Silver Fox 20 ...St. Croix Tissue 29 ...Masonicare at Mystic 7 .....Embassy Suites 20 ...Sobeys at East Point 30 ...St. Joseph Square 8 .....Precast Bridges 21 ...Salem Harbor Energy 30 ...Brunner Island 10 ...Irving Fuelling Stations 22 ...Social Enterprise Hub 31 ...Newport Arena 11 ....NJ Nabisco 23 ...Summit Office Park 32 ...Market Basket 12 ...Mercantile 26 ...Irving Oil Refinery 33 ...Rebar Projects 18 ...Elsipogtog 28 ...Misc Metals Division 34 ...Brown University 3 ..... Message from the President 48 ...Our Locations priorities 35 ...Technology: ToolHound 36 ... Environmental: Sustainable SJ Award profiles 37 ... Technology: IT Support Changes 14 ... Product: 38 ... Safety: Communications Architectural Precast Systems Changes 24 ... Company: MQ 39 ... Safety: Hearing Loss Prevention Construction people public & 44 ...25 Year Club Dinner community 45 ... Employee Appreciation Celebration 40... A Boy, a Truck and Some Forever Friends 45 ... Employee Recognition Program 41 ...Wish Upon a Ready-Mix Truck? 46 ...Congratulations 42 ...Take Our Kids to Work Day 47 ...Fresh Faces 43 ...Helping Hands 47 ...New Sales Engineer 47 ...Rebar GM Promotion OSCO construction group CONNECTIONS is the biannual magazine of the OSCO on our cover... Construction Group, published every Spring and Fall to share news and information with our valued customers & employees 2016 marks Marque’s 50th year in business! 1966 Comments and submissions are greatly appreciated and may be sent to the 2016 Read all about it in our centre spread on page 24. editor/designer: Tammy Legacy, c/o OSCO Construction Group 400 Chesley Drive, Saint John, NB • Canada • E2K 5L6 email: [email protected] 2 Marque Construction www.oscoconstructiongroup.com message from the president Message from the President his issue celebrates another of Moving into 2016, our product and In addition, we foresee an upswing Tour companies reaching a 50 geographic diversity has enabled the for our ready mix plants. This will year milestone. The name “Marque” backlog of work for the majority our complement our sand and stone ship- comes from the combination of the business lines to once again grow. Our ments from our Nova Scotia gravel words “Maritime” and “Quebec”. Back construction management group has operations. Related to growth in ready in 1966, the thinking was that Marque secured two good-sized projects in mix sales is the recovery of business Construction would do business in the Saint John region: as a member for the reinforcing steel facilities; par- both of these geographic areas and, of Port City Water Partners, we will be ticularly in the New Brunswick market. initially, that was the case. However, as performing the civil work for the Saint John Clean Drinking On another note, many of the articles in this issue highlight our ability to “...many of the articles in this issue Water Project; and, as a Joint Venture Partner “bundle” construction-related prod- highlight our ability to “bundle” with EllisDon, we will ucts and services for the benefit of our customers; a key differentiator for our construction-related products and be building the Irving Oil Home Office. These Group. We have the unique capabil- services for the benefit of our customers; projects, along with ity to reduce both the risks and the costs for our clients at the same time. a key differentiator for our Group.” some others, will also provide opportunities Unlike our competitors, we design & for our electrical, instru- co-ordinate the connections be- time went on, it became clear that the mentation and data cabling divisions. tween structural steel and precast wall business and political environment panels; a major source of headaches in these two jurisdictions were totally Our precast concrete plants have for many general contractors. We are different. Given we were a New secured a healthy volume of struc- equally adept at manufacturing both Brunswick-based organization, it tural and architectural work, both structural and architectural precast made more sense for Marque to focus in Canada and the United States. At concrete elements; a skill not readily on its Maritime roots and concentrate the same time, our structural steel available to most concrete precast- on its customers in the Atlantic plants have booked projects in both ers. We supply, deliver and install both Provinces. This decision turned out countries; however, we would like to ready mix concrete and reinforcing to be a good one and Marque hasn’t further increase our workload in the steel for poured-in-place concrete heavy industrial sectors. looked back since….. continued on page 47... www.oscoconstructiongroup.com connections | spring & summer 2016 3 projects Saint John Water Project aint John is the largest city in a new seventy-five million litre-per- The PCWP Team: the Province of New Brunswick day water treatment plant and storage Sand the oldest city in Canada. reservoirs on the city’s east side; as well • Brookfield Finance Securities LP: lead As such, it also has some of the oldest as critical water transmission system equity investor infrastructure, including a water system improvements throughout the city. The • Acciona Group of Companies: devel- which was developed in 1837. Today, new water treatment plant will be com- oper, equity investor, design-builder, that water system consists of approxi- pleted no later than November 2018. member of operations and mainte- mately 500 kilometers of pipes nance Under the Project Agreement, buried beneath the City. While • North American Construction: devel- PCWP will design, build, finance, much of the system has been oper, equity investor, design-builder operate and maintain the new updated over the years, there and sub-contractor for design build is still much work left to do. water treatment plant on the city’s east side under a 33 year • AMEC Foster Wheeler: design and As part of Saint John’s Safe, agreement. PCWP will also design, engineering Clean Drinking Water Project build, and finance 26 km’s of pipeline to • SIMO Management: operation and (SCDWP) to guarantee access to quality renew the city’s water transmission and maintenance drinking water for homes and businesses distribution system. • FCC Construction: sub-contractor for in the area, they recently entered into a design-build Public Private Partnership (P3) with Port PCWP is a consortium of companies • Gulf Operators: sub-contractor for City Water Partners (PCWP) to construct created for this very important project. design-build were already a part of the Acciona team. the seasons was an important aspect of Why FCC? Local presence is an important part of my decision making. This may sound odd building a successful team. As is the to your readers, but for people like me, contributed by: Brian Nicholas, reputation of all the team members in who have no context of a New Brunswick Director, Business Development, the wider community. winter, I needed to be educated. Acciona Agua S.A. FCC was recommended as a company So following our initial call, a meeting cciona Agua reached out to FCC as with an excellent reputation within was arranged with Rick Williston and Apart of an initiative to understand the Saint John and its wider environs, who Carl Blanchard. Saint John business community and to understood construction and how to identify potential team members for the construct concrete works in the New My recollections were all very positive. Saint John Water Supply project. Brunswick winter. FCC was able to give me a very clear concise explanation of their skills and The initial identification of FCC was via For me, at this stage of the project, the expertise, and one of the things that a recommendation from Amec, who ability of a construction company to stuck in my mind was FCC’s reference have an office in Saint John, and Amec work effectively and efficiently across to the quality of their people and how 4 connections | spring & summer 2016 www.oscoconstructiongroup.com projects contributed by: Saint John Water Project Rick Williston P.Eng. FCC Construction: FCC’s structure and building envelope of the involvement began with a call from Water Treatment Plant, along with the Acciona in the fall of 2013. Acciona were development of the Water Treatment starting the process of creating a team Plant site on the City’s east side. for the SCDWP. They were looking for Carl Blanchard, Rick Williston a builder with a strong local presence, and Shauna Miller have had key integrity, and a strong knowledge of involvement in FCC’s input in both construction practices and trades in the RFQ and RFP submissions, as Atlantic Canada. After meeting with well as initial project set-up. Acciona, FCC was asked to be part of the team. (see below) FCC’s on-site project team will include Project Manager Dan Fox, Proj- On November 6, 2015, following a lengthy ect Coordinator Kyle Blanchard, Site and competitive process, the City of Saint Superintendent Dave Carr and Project John approved Port City Water Partners as Administrator Madison Spear. the preferred proponent for the Safe Clean Drinking Water Project. Ocean Steel Rebar is also currently supplying 900 Tons of rebar to this FCC will manage the construction of the project. Administration Building and the building important they are “As I left FCC’s offices my single strong ethics, an excellent culture, and to the success of the a desire to be successful without taking company. thought was how to make sure that risks that could endanger the stability of FCC wanted to join the Acciona team.” the business.