TEAMKENAIDAN REGISTERED ISO 9001 ISO 14001 ISO 45001 Peel Salt Management Facility – Design Build FEATURE PROJECT Corporate Donations Project Requirements Kenaidan recently made donations to: The Region of Peel uses salt and brine (liquid to support a pre-engineered building. The 13 m Following a phased design and permitting • Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada salt) for their winter maintenance operations to high salt building has a capacity to store 13,000 process that began in January 2020, construction improve winter driving and walking conditions. tonnes of salt. The brine building and truck-rinse began in Spring 2020. The main salt storage These seasonal services are supported by building is a conventional steel frame clad with building is complete and ready for use, while several facilities located throughout the Region. precast concrete panels. remaining work is anticipated to be completed To increase capacity, the Salt Management by April 2021. The existing facility has remained Facility (SMF), located at 2 Copper Road in the Kenaidan is self-performing the concrete fully operational throughout the duration of City of Brampton, is being expanded. formwork and various mechanical installations, the contract. including: The new SMF has a gross area of approximately • 3,029 m3 of concrete with a large component 2 Roles & Responsibilities 2,300 m with three interconnected buildings set being chloride resistant aside for salt storage, brine production, and an 2 automated truck rinse. To create space for the • 4,220 m of formwork that includes 10 m high Owner: The Regional Municipality of Peel concrete bunker walls for the salt storage area Design Build Lead Consultant: Garry Cunningham Chris Kodama Marisa Nardini Andrea Howson Julie Dorie Elia Rizkalla new development, work included demolition of the existing salt dome foundations, the original brine • Three 100,000 litre underground Fiberglass R.V. Anderson Associates Limited building, and removal of site services including Reinforced Plastic (FRP) storage tanks for Excavation and Site Services: Pall-Con watermain, sanitary, and storm sewers. magnesium chloride, brine, and wastewater Construction Ltd. • Brine batching and dispensing systems Mechanical: Kenaidan Contracting Ltd. Design of the new salt management building complete with piping to the storage tanks Brine System: Visser Sales Corp. features foundation footings and concrete walls • All building plumbing, heating, and drainage Truck Rinse: Unique Cleaning Systems systems Canada Inc. Key Challenges Electrical: Montana Electrical Contractors Ltd. • Working within a limited site area due to • Phased design effort with extensive Concrete Formwork & Placement: ongoing operations of this public works facility engagement in the building permit process Kenaidan Contracting Ltd. • Identifying and achieving value engineering to accommodate an early start for Reinforcing Steel: Harris Rebar, A Division opportunities within a very prescribed construction of Harris Steel ULC design brief • Construction and in-service date need to Demolition: Titan Demolition Inc. • Ensuring COVID-19 protocols are observed be completed within the 2019-2020 winter Structural Steel Supply & Installation: by all personnel maintenance program Bramalea Steel Works Ltd. Inside This Issue PROJECT UPDATE POINT OF INTEREST OUR MESSAGE Atlantic Packaging Introducing KenWave Recent Retirements Products Ltd. – Reinforced Solutions Inc. Concrete Package VOLUME 31 ISSUE 4 : DECEMBER 2020 PUBLISHED QUARTERLY Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. – Reinforced Concrete Package PROJECT UPDATE Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd., a leading Canadian manufacturer of Valued at $5.8 million, our scope involves a cast-in-place concrete package for containerboard and corrugated packaging products, is expanding their the future building and machinery. An arrangement of pile caps, footings, grade Whitby, Ontario facility. beams, walls, columns, and suspended slabs are being constructed, including installation of 1,600 anchor bolts to secure the structure and equipment. Construction is underway to increase manufacturing by adding a second recycled paper machine to double production. This production line will be The aggressively scheduled work requires over 9,000 m2 of formwork to cast built adjacent to their existing line. 7,000 m3 of concrete. Our work is scheduled to be complete by January 2021. GTAA Fuel System GTAA T3 Ground Power GTAA Hot and Chilled Recently Awarded Compliance Unit Upgrades Water Pipe Assessment Introducing KenWave Solutions Inc. POINT OF INTEREST pipe condition assessment, repair, rehabilitation, This partnership is another opportunity for and replacement services to the Canadian market. Kenaidan to support our projects and provide our clients with value-added services. KenWave’s ICONAC was founded in 2014 to improve the experienced engineers will be teamed with accuracy, applicability, and affordability of Kenaidan’s in-house geotechnical and hydraulic non-invasive condition assessment and leak engineering capabilities. In doing so, we expand detection for pressure pipes. ICONAC provided the use of our departments that also manage and non-invasive condition assessment and leak deliver complex scheduling, surveying, BIM, and detection for watermains, forcemains, and field operations. large diameter heating pipes, to utilities and engineering consultants in Canada, the United KenWave has now completed work on States, and England. condition assessment and leak detection surveys for the Region of Peel, City of Toronto, After completing a pilot project in December Town of Collingwood, and the Greater Toronto 2019, it was confirmed that the unique strengths Airports Authority. Jointly owned by ICONAC and Kenaidan, of ICONAC’s TPA technology, combined with KenWave Solutions Inc. leverages each Kenaidan’s operational experience and capabilities, www.kenwavesolutions.com company’s strengths and capabilities to provide would make for a successful partnership. KenWave’s Tonal Pipe AssessmentTM (TPA) stiffness, leak location, tuberculation, and other • GIS mapping technology supports asset managers by providing parameters from the measured response of the • Laser, thermal, and panoramic imaging reliable information on pipe wall conditions, leaks, physical pipe to controlled acoustic excitation air pockets, and other anomalies at an affordable from the TPA sound source. This virtual twin • Mechanical and civil enabling works cost without the risks and dangers of invasive can be further analyzed to provide estimates of inspection. Non-invasive condition assessment a pipe’s remaining service life, and to model its Current technologies do not deliver this and leak detection can and must be a safe, responses to external effects. Other value-added information at the scale and quality needed for simple, scalable process to provide maximum services include: proactive asset management. With millions of network coverage and savings. kilometers of pipe near or past their original • Transient pressure monitoring design lives, municipalities and utilities cannot TPA’s AI-powered analysis engine creates a • Soil and geotechnical investigations afford a buried asset information gap. virtual twin of a pipe to deduce wall thickness, • Finite element analysis Tough Times Don’t Last - Tough Teams Do SAFETY CORNER It will be hard to look back on 2020 without COVID-19 defining it. And as improvement despite the added challenges. We the end of the year approaches, the story is not yet written. Along this journey see our team’s commitment throughout our whole Kenaidan has had to continuously evolve our response. We have developed organization to protect not only our company but and implemented online processes to facilitate daily COVID-19 screenings also colleagues, friends, and family. for internal and external workforces as well as essential visitors. This is aimed at facilitating contact tracing should our operations be impacted by a positive Following strict COVID-19 protocols, on October 2, case. In addition, Kenaidan continues to find resources and supplies that help Kenaidan hosted a team building event with our mitigate the risk and spread of COVID-19, protecting our business continuity employees on our job sites and in the office. and that of our external stakeholders. I would like to congratulate Team This allowed for social interaction that we were Kenaidan on their relentless response to this pandemic, in the workplace, all starving for, while encouraging the friendly in our homes and in our personal lives. competitive nature that is part of what defines By Patricia Pereira Kenaidan’s employee culture. As part of this event, Director, Health & Safety Although this year has presented us with the challenges of a global pandemic each employee received a sweatshirt to celebrate in an already challenging industry, our team has managed to maintain an and commemorate another team building milestone. What resonated with me exemplary safety record for 2020. To date, we have experienced zero are the words on the back of the sweatshirt. It is a very important message lost time injuries. Our focus is to never allow for complacency to settle in, to our team and should be an important message to all teams, employers, regardless of the circumstances. When we reflect on our statistical health and stakeholders making their way through this pandemic: TOUGH TIMES and safety performance over the past year, we are incredibly proud to see DON’T LAST - TOUGH TEAMS DO. Recent Retirements: