connections the biannual newsmagazine of the OSCO Construction Group Irving Oil’s Home Office Takes Shape spring & summer 2017 • New Hampshire Women’s Correctional Facility • Harvard University • • Anheuser Busch • Dalhousie University • IKEA • Aggregates 30th • the biannual newsmagazine of spring & summer 2017 connections the OSCO Construction Group what’s inside projects 4 .....Irving Oil Home Office 17....Anheuser-Busch Expansion 28 ...Alma Wharf Upgrades 8 ..... New Hampshire Women’s 18 ...Port Saint John 29 ...Foisie Innovation Studio Correctional Facility 19 ... UNB Center for Healthy 30 ...Around the Refinery 10 ...Mount Holyoke College Living 32 ...Harvard’s Smith Center 11 .... Dalhouse University IDEA 20 .. FCC Projects Group at 33 ... AVA Theatre profiled by Buildings Irving Refinery CPCI 12 ... New Brunswick Centre for 21 .. Aitken Lighting Upgrade 34 .. IKEA Halifax Precision Medicine 22 .. Saint John Water Project 35 ...Shoreland Transport 14 ...The Parks of West Bedford 26 .. O’neil Cinemas at the Point 35 ...Rebar Projects 15 ...Maine DOT Precast Pipe 27 .. Pipe Project Profiled by 36 ...South & Hollis Street 16 ...Tidal Power Generators Stormceptor priorities 3 ..... Message from 37 ... Safety: Evolving Safety Culture the President 38 ... Environment: Spills 52 ...Our Locations 38 ... Environment: Sustainable SJ Award 39 ... Facilities: OSCO Head Office Reno public & people community 42 ...I.T. Team Profile 44 ...25 Year Club 40...Helping Hands 46 ... OSCO Aggregates 40... Marque Wins NB-MAP Award Celebrates 30 Years 41 ...Take Our Kids to Work Day 49 ...Group Wellness Program 51 ...CWB Recognizes OSCO 51 ...Fresh Faces 51 ...Congratulations 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 The Irving Oil Home Office in Saint John, NB takes Comments and submissions are greatly appreciated and may be sent to the shape with help from the OSCO Construction Group. editor/designer: Tammy Legacy, c/o OSCO Construction Group See story on page 4. 400 Chesley Drive, Saint John, NB • Canada • E2K 5L6 email: [email protected] www.oscoconstructiongroup.com Message from the President I’ve stated many times in the ity, our ability to deliver and maintain microprocessors, data storage & As past, our primary Mission is the level of service that has made our transmission, software programming to “provide valued construction solu- Group successful becomes more of tools, networking, mobile devices, tions in the design, manufacture & a challenge. The importance of mak- sensors and application software. installation of building components”. ing the right strategic, organizational As a result, the collection, analysis While this undertaking delineates changes becomes critical to accom- and distribution of information has how we plan to utilize our assets to modate growth without deterioration changed dramatically. Advances in fabricate & erect our products, we of the support services described. At hardware and software have vastly mustn’t forget that it also includes the OSCO Construction Group, we expanded the speed and scope the associated support services re- have implemented and are introduc- at which data can be digitized, quired to perform our mission. These include marketing & sales, estimating & project management, procure- “Our plan is to utilize our historical information for the ment & supply chain management, benefit of our customers and all of our supply chain contract administration & risk assess- partners to make their collective experience with the OSCO ment, invoicing & collections, trans- portation logistics & shipping, health Group as valuable, efficient and pleasant as possible.” & safety, quality assurance, plant & equipment maintenance/upgrades, employee training & development ing several new initiatives which al- stored, analyzed and shared. Big, and timely communication & cus- low expansion in size and scale while, unstructured data repositories can tomer feedback. Without these basic from our customer’s perspective, not now be used by sophisticated, services being executed as effec- affecting our primary mission. cognitive, computer algorithms to tively and efficiently as possible, our optimize a company’s machinery, customer performance could weaken One of our most important equipment and services; in other relative to our competition. decisions has been to invest heavily words, the entire product delivery in our information technology (IT) system has the potential to be At the same time, as our organization infrastructure. Dramatic changes develops in size, reach and complex- have taken place since 2000 in continued on page 51... www.oscoconstructiongroup.com connections | spring & summer 2017 3 projects Drone photos (this page and cover) courtesy of Irving Oil Limited 4 connections | spring & summer 2017 www.oscoconstructiongroup.com projects Project Update: Irving Oil Home Office contr ibuted by: Luke Johnson, P.Eng., EllisDon Corporation bring signifi- installation are scheduled to start PMP, GSC, Dave Dunnett, P.Eng.,, cant project experience to the table, shortly after precast. This stage Brendan Clancy, P.Eng., Jason and have been able to harness the of the project is a critical one. It is Presley & Kim Doggett capabilities of the OSCO Group of very important that the windows, Companies to keep the project mov- limestone and associated weather ing along quickly. barriers and insulation be installed ince breaking ground on the proj- with great attention to detail, to ect back on June 6, 2016, much S The elevator cores have reached level ensure the integrity and longevity of has changed on site at the Irving Oil 10. Ocean Steel has completed erec- the building envelope. To this end, Home Office Project in Saint John, tion of structural steel and decking to a full scale mock-up of the building New Brunswick. level 6 on the south side of the build- envelope has been completed ing and level 3 on the north side. As outlined in our Fall issue of Con- (pictured below). The mock-up is nections, FCC Construction joined an exact replica of the corner of the Placement of concrete slabs is also with EllisDon in the spring of 2016, as building at the level 11 roof line. This progressing well with slabs placed to joint venture partners to manage the process allowed for the evaluation level 6 on the south side of the build- construction of Irving Oil’s new Home of the construction details and ing. Reinforcing steel and concrete for Office. Designed by B + H Architects, sequencing, prior to construction the slabs are being provided by OSCO the 317,323 square foot building will of the building. Part of the mock- Concrete and Ocean Steel Rebar Lim- be LEED certified and will include 11 up was left incomplete, to allow for ited. The placement of slabs provides floors plus mechanical penthouse. inspection of the insulation and air rigidity to the structure and will allow vapour barrier applied to the precast Strescon to start precast concrete wall backup panels. This process proved FCC Construction panel installation in May. to be a valuable one, with many Work is continuing to progress well. Aluminum window and limestone lessons learned that will be applied to Both FCC Construction and the continued on next page... Our investment in a new home office represents our confidence in Saint John and our province. We are proud of our people and our community. The total employment activity of Irving Oil home office employees in uptown Saint John will result in $8 million in direct consumer spending at local shops and restaurants. Irving Oil Headquarters This means a total of 17,000+ Irving Oil workers will They will also purchase Nearly doubling the number of Irving Oil sporting and cultural event tickets purchase 173,620 140,000 coffees employees working in uptown Saint John. purchased each year. lunches uptown each year. and make hundreds of shopping trips to uptown boutiques. Infographic source: homeofficesj.ca source: Infographic www.oscoconstructiongroup.com connections | spring & summer 2017 5 projects the building structure. As shown by expected to be completed late in the side of the building whose install the limestone mock-up, this building summer of 2017, with the exception needs to be coordinated around will be of classic character and a of any leave-out steel that can’t be the removal of the tower crane and centrepiece of architecture in Saint installed until the tower crane and man hoist. One of the stairs will John for years to come. man hoists are removed. become an architectural feature for the project, and as such, Ocean Steel Ocean Steel This project has required detailed is working closely with FCC EllisDon planning and scheduling due to to ensure the coordination of proper Ocean Steel & Construction was hired the variety of tradespeople on site logistics and scheduling for this com- by the FCC-EllisDon Joint Venture working together at the same time. plex activity. to supply and install 2000+ tons of The Ocean Steel erection crew has structural steel and 290,000 sq. ft. of worked through these complexities Strescon decking on the Irving Oil Home Of- with the other project teams to en- fice project. sure the steel and decking remained Strescon Limited has been con- on schedule. tracted by the FCC-EllisDon Joint Ocean Steel started initial delivery Venture to provide both Architec- of embeds and anchor bolts on Sept Getting the steel