Project Report: Toronto Office
Eric Lee, VP Operations - Toronto

Seasons Greetings and Happy Holidays to everyone. It has been two years since we moved into Dowco’s Mississauga office. With a combined staff of thirty (30) plus, we are looking to increase to thirty-eight (38) in the near future - additional space will be available by January 1, 2007.

Panalized Baghouse Modules – Moran Iron Work in Ohio awarded this unusual project to Toronto office. It’s a light structure with lots of plate work. The job is 100% out for approval. Moran decided to issue all drawings for fabrication at the same time. There was also an unusual request from Moran’s customer to use copies of the EOR structural drawings as Erection drawings instead of our computer-generated drawings. While this is not our normal practice, we complied with the client’s request

Goldman Sachs - Area 4 is progressing very slowly. DCM are concentrating their engineering staff on the lower floors and has further delayed Area 4. For the next 5 weeks, we are shifting some of our detailers to help Burnaby complete Area 3. Looks like this job will stretch into the fall of 2007.

Fedex Hangar – This job finally started to move. The drafting kickoff meeting was held in Hirschfeld’s office early October; modelers were busy getting ABMs ready and connections started to arrive from Hirschfeld’s connection engineer. The Hanger building is designed to accommodate the new Airbus A380 freight airplane with trusses redesigned to 40 ft plus deep, and just short of 400 ft long. The original plan to eliminate camber did not materialize. The camber has made this project a bit more interesting and challenging.

Children’s Hospital – Phase I of this project was fabricated and erected by Cives, Helmark was asked to help complete Phase II and awarded Dowco with a detailing contract along with SCI for connection engineering. A major revision to our original scope has added 50% more work to our base contract, followed by issue #2 adding another 25%. This job is scheduled to complete by early June of 2007.

NTTA (Hirschfeld), Kaynor Tech School (SteelFab), One Bryant Park (Owen Steel), The Standard Hotel (Helmark Steel) and Clackamas Town Center (Fought and Company) are all in their final stage and should finish shortly.