Project Report: Burnaby Office
Rick Station, Office Manager

The erection of The Vancouver Convention Centre for Canron is in full swing. The Eastern portion of the Convention Centre is 100% connected and detailed except for some miscellaneous Soffit and Partition steel which is still being sorted out. We are well into connecting and detailing the Western portion of the Convention Centre model. Wojtek Jablkowski and his crew have now been working on this Project for close to 21 months and have at least another 6 months left to complete the West.

The 4600 Ton Sprint Center in Kansas City for Schuff Steel Midwest is in the final stages of erection. Thanks go to Earl Horton at Schuff Mid-West and Paul Devereux at Mortenson. It has been a pleasure working with you both.

We have finally completed Area 3 on the 40,000 ton Goldman Sachs Headquarters in New York City for DCM Erectors. Tony Han and Ken Mussato’s crew are now jumping in to lend a hand in Area #4 (the Tower portion) which our Toronto office has been working on.

The 10,000 Ton Sandow 5 Power Plant for the Bechtel Power Corporation that Sanjay Prasad is heading up with help from Steven Chang is approximately 65% through. This very fast Track Project has put our staff to task and they all have risen to the challenge. Well done!

Unfortunately our other Bechtel Power Corporation Project - the 120,000 Ton TXU Power Plant - has been cancelled due to environmental issues. John Chai’s crew were working on this Project, but have now turned their attention to lending Sanjay Prasad’s crew help to complete the Sandow 5 Power Plant.

The Panama Museum of Biodiversity headed by Don Adair is now back on again. The model has been updated to Tekla Structures version 11.3 from when the project was started back in 2003 using version 9.0. We are well underway updating and revising connections to suit the new fabricators now on board.

The North American economy is still humming along quite nicely with everyone in the industry very busy. The signs are very encouraging for 2007 and 2008.