b'2022 ROOFING CANADA AWARD Extreme conditions Des conditions extrmesWorkingintheCanadianNorthpresentedatypicalLe travail dans le Grand Nord canadien prsentait des dfis challengesforOakwoodanditsteam.Asidefromtheatypiques pour Oakwood et son quipe. En plus de la logis-logistics of transporting materials to the remote location,tiquedutransportdesmatriauxjusqulendroitloign, crews also had to work in -20C to -30C temperatures,les quipes ont galement d travaillerdes tempratures de with some days falling as low as -40C.-20 C-30 C, voire -40 C. "When we started the project, one of the first things we Une des premires choses quon nous a demand de faire were asked to do was to seal up the building so they couldtait de sceller le btiment pour quon puisse le chauffer10 heat it to 10C and install the turbines," Jake De Boer,C et installer les turbines , rappelle Jake de Boer, surveillant Oakwood Roofings site supervisor for the project, recalls.du projetOakwood Roofing.Ils travaillaient sur un chan-"They were working on a tight timeline, so we quickly camecier serr, donc nous avons rapidement conu un systme o up with a system where we could temporarily seal the wholenous pouvions tanchiser temporairement tout le btiment et building and keep it warm and watertight so the turbinele garder chaud.installers could continue working." Oakwood Roofing a men plusieurs initiatives de scelle-Oakwood Roofing conducted several temporary sealingment temporaires comme celle-ci, le tout en respectant les initiativestokeepthetradesontrack,allwhilestaying ontargetwiththecompanysmainbuildingenclosureobjectifsprincipauxdelentrepriseenmatiredenveloppe objectives. In the end, the companys adaptive strategiesdu btiment. En fin de compte, les stratgies dadaptation and enhanced cold weather safety measures kept the teamdOakwood Roofing et les mesures de scurit amliores warmwithoutcompromisingthequalityoftheirwork.par temps froid ont maintenu lquipe au chaud sans compro-This earned it one of Bechtel\'s 2021 Supply Chain Awards.mettre la qualit de son travail. C\'est ce qui a valuBechtel un prix Supply Chain Award en 2021.Sparking collaborationsThe Keeyask Generating Station united skilled tradespeopleDes collaborations tincelantesfrom across Manitoba and its First Nations communities.La centrale Keeyask a runi des gens de mtier de tout le EnsuringcohesionamongthisdiverseteamrequiredaManitoba et de ses communauts autochtones. Pour assurer strategic approach. la cohsion de cette quipe diversifie, il a fallu adopter une "Weweren\'tjustdealingwithonegroupofpeople.approche stratgique.WewereworkingwithaconglomerationofBechtel, Nousneparlionspasseulementdungroupede BarnardConstructionandEllisDonwhoarealllargepersonnes, dit M. Bosma. Nous travaillions avec un conglo-industrial builders on their own, says Bosma. That wasmrat de Bechtel, Barnard Construction et EllisDon, qui sont an administrative challenge at the beginning, but then oncetous de grands constructeurs industriels. Ctait un dfi admi-we got going with it, we built up a solid trust between thenistratif au dpart, mais une fois que nous avons commenc, contractors and subcontractors." nous avons forg une solide confiance entre les entrepreneurs Bosmasaysthathavingafull-timepointpersontoet les sous-traitants. represent Oakwood Roofing among all project stakeholdersM.Bosmaexpliquequiltaitabsolumentncessaire was a must, as was introducing administrative processes todavoir une personne-ressourcetemps plein pour reprsenter manage project relationships at each phase of construction. OakwoodRoofingtoutcommelacquisitiondeprocessus As for other lessons learned during the milestone project,administratifs pour grer les relations entre les projets.BosmaadvisescontractorstounderstandeveryaspectEn ce qui concerne les autres leons, M. Bosma conseille of the job and its requirements before getting to the site:aux entrepreneurs de comprendre tous les aspects du travail "Projects like this get very complex, so the biggest thinget ses exigences avant darriver sur le chantier :Les projets that we can take away from that experience and share withcomme celui-ci deviennent trs complexes, alors la chose la other contractors is to know your contract and make sureplus importante que nous pourrions retirer de cette exprience you\'re aware of all the details, because it all comes down to that contract."est de connatre votre contrat et de vous assurer que vous tes Oakwood was among a number of roofing professionalsau courant de tous les dtails, car tout se rsumea.andcompaniesrecognizedduringtheCRCAAwardsOakwood tait parmi un certain nombre de professionnels Luncheon at this years CRCA Conference. The team sayset dentreprises qui ont t reconnus au djeuner des prix de they are honoured to have their work featured, with DoreenlACEC lors du congrs de cette anne. Lquipe dit quelle Lecuyer, controller with Oakwood Roofing, noting, It wasest honore de voir son travail en vedette. Doreen Lecuyer, thanks to our 40 years of experience that we were able tocontrleur chez Oakwood Roofing, a dit :Cest grcenos take this on. We knew it was a special project when we40 annes dexprience que nous avons pu entreprendre ce started and are quite pleased that CRCA agrees. projet. Nous savions quil sagissait dun projet spcial quand CRCA received 16 entries for the 2022 Roofing Canadanous avons commenc et nous sommes trs heureux que Award.Inhisspeechtotheaudience,CRCApresident lACEC soit daccord. 12 ROOFING CANADA FALL/WINTER 2022'