Project Report: Surrey/Langley Office
Iain Brannen, Office Manager

The past five months have been busy and challenging with the opening of the new Surrey/Langley office and the amalgamation of personnel from the Whonnock and Burnaby offices.

In the midst of the reorganization, Schuff Steel awarded Dowco the Tulsa Event Center Arena project. This undertaking, described as “The project of the century” by the Vision Builders 2025 group, presented us with a number of unique detailing challenges, all adding to the excitement of being involved with a project designed by the world- renowned architect Cesar Pelli.

During initial discussions and early meetings, it became obvious that the focus of the arena would be the Icon Wall. Subsequent modeling and detailing has indicated this to be true, and the Icon Wall is emerging as a complex and unique aspect of the arena project. The Dowco team has risen to the challenges and is doing an outstanding job with every member focused and contributing to the successful completion of the project in the spring of 2007.

In early December, Owens Steel Company awarded us the The John Jay College of Criminal Justice project located in New York City. We look forward to again working with the Owens team on another fascinating and challenging venture. This project is a 16-storey building with the floors hanging off large roof trusses that cantilever over the core of the building. All the floors will require camber and will be erected in the camber position supported by temporary jack columns that will be lowered and removed once all the floors of steel have been erected.  More details and pictures will follow in the next issue of Details.