Canam Group is pleased again this year to support the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) in presenting the 2016 Award for Excellence in Innovation in Civil Engineering. This award was created by the CSCE in 2009 to recognize outstanding innovations in all civil engineering disciplines.

This year’s award was bestowed to Lock-Block Ltd. for their Arch-Lock™ innovation, pre-cast voussoirs with zipper truck assembly process.

“Canam Group is trully proud to sponsor this award since its establishment in 2009, stated Tony Bégin, Senior Director of Integrated Project Delivery. It is totally in line with Canam’s innovation culture in civil engineering for better building solutions in the Canadian construction industry.”

The award was presented on June 3^rd during a ceremony at the 2016 CSCE Annual General Meeting and Conference in London, Ontario.

From left to right: Mr. Tony Bégin, Senior Director of Integrated Project Delivery at Canam Group, presenting the award to Mr. Jay Drew, P.Eng., President of Lock-Block Ltd.

About CSCE

Founded in 1887 by prominent Civil Engineers in Canada, the CSCE is a learned society intending to develop and maintain high standards of civil engineering practice in Canada and to enhance the public image of the civil engineering profession.

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Canam-Buildings is proud to have contributed to the construction of the new Jean Coutu Distribution Center and Headquarters in Varennes that will officially open to no less than 1,100 employees on October 26th.

For this project, Canam supplied joists, trusses, bridgings, purlins and girts, welded sections (WWF), steel deck and the acoustic deck for offices. Joists of 24 m (80 ft) long have been installed in the warehouse. This project was realized with the BuildMaster approach.

In addition to offices and distribution center, this building of 860,500 ft² includes:

• a training center
• a swimming pool
• a cafeteria
• a nursery
• a three-story atrium

Outside, communal gardens and a walking trail will also be made available to employees.

Staff can move into the new headquarters from October 26th until mid-December. As for the distribution center, it will be operational in January 2016.

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Canam-Buildings and Canam-Bridges stood out prominently at the CISC Design Awards, taking home two awards each at the gala held on October 29^th under the theme “Contribution of the Steel Industry to the World of Music and the Arts”.

Industrial Projects

Canam-Buildings received an award in the Industrial Projects category for its participation in the PJC Head Office and Distribution Center project in Varennes, Quebec. In addition to housing administrative offices and a warehouse, this 860,500 sq. ft. (79,943 m²) facility includes a fitness center, a daycare, a cafeteria and many other commodities for the employees. This project included joists – some measuring up to 80 ft. (24 m) – girders, bridgings, purlins and girts, welded wide-flange sections (WWF), steel deck and acoustic deck for the office section. The distribution center is due to become operational in January 2016.

Jury Favorite

Canam-Buildings took home the Jury Favorite award for its contribution to the Cogeco Amphitheatre project in Trois-Rivières. This complex structure of 150,700 sq. ft. (14,000 m²) features two partitions at the rear of the building, called for specially shaped joists with large cantilevers and sloped lower chords in order to form the particular triangular shape. In addition to the joists, which had to be delivered in two sections and bolted directly onto the structure, girders and steel deck were also fabricated for this project. Inaugurated in July 2015, the construction has a vast stage and covered seating for 3,500 spectators as well as an outdoor landscaped amphitheatre.

Projects Outside Quebec

Canam-Bridges received an award in the Projects Outside Quebec category for its participation in the Hunt Club Pathway Connection to the Southeast Transitway Station project, a 246-ft. (75 m) pedestrian bridge erected over the Ottawa Airport Parkway to link the Hunt Club community and the Southeast Transitway in Ottawa, Ontario. The bridge structure is composed of three orthotropic steel deck panels – with the longest span measuring 167 ft. (51 m) – and required complex fabrication operations during the assembly and welding of the various components. The bridge opened to pedestrians and cyclists in November 2014.

Bridge Projects

Canam-Bridges also received an award in the Bridge Projects category for its participation in the construction of the Des Allumettes Bridge, a 919-ft. (280 m) highway bridge crossing the main channel of the Ottawa River southeast of Pembroke, Ontario, and linking the Province of Ontario to the Municipality of Isle-aux-Allumettes, in Quebec. The structure comprises of two box girders composed of 22 segments, for a total of 1,880 tons of steel components. The complexity of this project lay in the weight of the girders, some of which weighting as much as 91 tons, and the tight deadline. The bridge opened to traffic in August 2015.

The CISC Design Awards Gala is an annual event celebrating the various teams that join forces to execute complex and innovative steel projects. The different awards conferred in the scope of the gala are unique in that they are jointly awarded to the project owner, architect, engineer, contractor, fabricator and detailer.

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One of Canam Group’s partners in the execution of some projects, Cast Connex from Toronto, has been featured on Architizer.com. In the article, two projects in which Canam Group took part are mentioned:

• the construction of the roof on the Arthur Ashe Stadium by Canam-Heavy, and
• the Whitney Museum of American Art project by Canam-Buildings.

Let us not forget that Canam Group and Cast Connex are both part of the members of the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC) who have received the 2015 Humanitarian Award for the reconstruction of Lakay Trade School located outside Port-au-Prince in Haiti.

Read this interesting article about architecturally exposed cast steel connectors in buildings.

Here is a cast steel connector from the Arthur Ashe Stadium roof superstructure.

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Canam Group was the recipient of three of four awards at the 2016 CISC National Steel Design Awards Gala held on September 30^th in Toronto.

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On October 25, three of Canam Group’s employees will give mini-lectures in a “Speed Meeting” style during the CISC 8th Annual Steel Workshop held in Quebec City. Their fifteen-minute-long presentations will be delivered to about 10 people at a time.

Canam-Buildings

Laurence Ferland-Brissette, Eng., Structural Engineer, will present various less-known products and novelties of Canam-Buildings. She will focus on the innovative aspects of some products along with a few projects examples for each of them.

Laurence Ferland-Brissette, Eng., Structural Engineer

Canam-Bridges

Parinaz Pakniat, M.A.Sc., P.Eng., Chief Engineer and Émilie Hudon, Ph.D, P.Eng., Conception Engineer for Goodco Z-Tech, a product of Canam-Bridges, will present a lecture titled: “Special Applications of Bearings” about the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium, in Atlanta. This presentation will get into the challenges faced during the conception of 43 pot bearings, the biggest of which could transfer a load of more than 40,000 kN.

Parinaz Pakniat, M.A.Sc., P.Eng., Chief Engineer

Émilie Hudon, Ph.D, P.Eng., Conception Engineer

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The ÉTS Student House project, on which Canam-Buildings participated, was selected by the American Architecture Prize (AAP) jury for a prize that will be handed to the Menkès Shooner Dagenais Letourneux Architectes firm at the New York’s Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum ’s cocktail party, on October 25, 2016.

Category: Educational Buildings

Mention: Bronze

Compared to other generally more sober university buildings, the ÉTS Student House is innovative. This 130,000-ft² (12,077-m²) building consists of shops, classrooms, laboratories and a green space that encourages meetings between students and locals. It focuses on sustainable development and aims for a Silver LEED CS certification. Canam-Buildings is proud to have provided joists, joist girders and steel deck on this project.

About the American Architecture Prize  (AAP)

The American Architecture Prize is to become one of the best prize in the industry to showcase talent and vision of the worldwide architects. This international contest crowns the best architectural projects, interior design and landscape architecture.

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Canam-Buildings and Canam-Bridges excelled at the 18^th CISC Awards of Excellence Gala for the Quebec region, held on November 4th in Montreal. Canam is proud to have participated in the projects that received awards in the following categories:

Category: Green buildings

Soprema Plant, Drummondville, Quebec. This plant, which produces polyisocyanurate insulating panels, used mainly in roofs for institutional and industrial buildings, is the first of its kind in North America. Canam provided the joists, joist girders, purlins and girts as well as the steel deck for this 247,568 ft.² (23,000 m²) project.

Category: Industrial

Green Cross Biotherapeutics – Oasis project, Montreal, Quebec. This plant, which produces intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), used in the treatment of patients with infectious and immune diseases, and albumin, used as a blood-volumizing agent and in the treatment of burns, is the first of its kind in Canada. Canam provided the joists, purlins and girts as well as the steel deck for this 225,000 ft.² (20,903 m²) project.

Category: Young architects / engineers

Bois-de-Liesse Primary School, Montreal, Quebec. This expansion doubled the school’s original area making it possible to accommodate more students. Canam provided the joists and steel deck for this project.

Category: Jury favourite

Pierre-Lassonde Pavilion, MNBAQ, Quebec City. This project, for which Canam-Buildings provided the steel structure, has won several awards in addition to this one. The project’s complexity arises from its cantilevered structure and horizontal bracing system. The structure of this 77,385 ft.² (7,189 m²) Pavilion is composed of joists, joist girders and steel deck.

Category: Bridges

Sir Ambrose Shea Bridge, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador. This bridge is 305 ft. (93 m) long and consists of three spans. The bridge’s superstructure is composed of 1,100 tonnes of steel components including 10 girders for approaches and four box girders and stringers for the lift span. Featuring four hollow structural tubular towers that stand over 100 ft. (30.5 m) tall and measure 20 in. (508 mm) wide by 1 in. (25.4 mm) thick, this bridge project is anything but standard.

About the Gala

The CISC Design Awards Gala is an annual event celebrating the various teams that join forces to execute complex and innovative steel projects. The different awards conferred in the scope of the gala are unique in that they are jointly awarded to the project owner, architect, engineer, contractor, fabricator and detailer.

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Serge Dussault, Vice President, Pre-Construction Services for Canam Group, will co-host a seminar entitled Collaboration and engineering: Raising the roof on BMO Field at  Construct Canada to be held in Toronto from November 30th to December 2nd. Serge will co-host the seminar along with David Watson, founding Principal of Entuitive and Ed Sceviour, Lead Superintendent at PCL Constructors Canada.

During this seminar, participants will have a behind-the-scenes look at the complexity of the project and collaboration required to transform BMO Field into a world-class, multi-sports stadium.

The Buildings Show groups several exhibitions in the construction industry including Construct Canada. This annual event attracts almost 30,000 visitors and approximately 1,600 will exhibit including Canam-Buildings and Structure Fusion, two of Canam Group’s teams.

BMO Field, which is home of the Toronto FC soccer team, has also become home of the Toronto Argonauts, a team of the Canadian football league.

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Michael Leblanc, Business Development Representative at Canam-Buildings, will give a conference at the 6th Modular Construction & Prefabrication Summit held in Houston, Texas, on December 8-9, 2016.

On the December 8th conference, he will present the Murox and Econox products, offering ideal solutions for large and small industrial buildings for the mine, oil and gas industries in remote locations. The objective is to demonstrate these products can be applied to all types of projects, such as Fort Hills and AcelorMittal Baffinland achieved these few years.

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Benoit Leclair, Field Relation Manager at Canam Group and LEED expert, will be a speaker at the panel discussion of the 9th Edition of the “Colloque québécois sur l’acier” – Winter 2017 Conference. It is organized by the Canadian institute of steel construction (CISC) and will be held at the Europa Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, on February 17th, 2017 under the theme “L’Industrie de l’acier en pleine mouvance”.

Benoit Leclair, LEED AP BD+C, Canam Group Field Relation Manager

On the agenda:

• LEED new version
• The CISC’s six environmental product declarations (DEP)
• Structural steel for painted and unpainted products
• Projects case studies, including Soprema in which Canam took part
• Presentations by field experts.

This conference, given in French only, grants credits for three hours of continuous education.

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About “Le Rendez-vous de l’acier”

“Le Rendez-vous de l’acier” is an annual event organized by the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC). This event is the reference in Quebec for steel construction and a “must” in this field!

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From now on, you can get precise data on our Reveal Series deck, by entering a minimum of information, when using the deck engineering tools on the Canam-Buildings’ website.

Easy to use, our engineering tools have been designed to help you find the product that best suits your project.

Now available:

Roof deck (RS2.0, RS2.0A, RS3.5, RS3.5A)

• Maximum loads
• Maximum spans

Floor deck (RS2.0C, RS2.0CA, RS3.5C, RS3.5CA)

• Maximum loads
• Maximum unshored spans

About Reveal Series architectural deck

Reveal Series is a suite of metal deck systems that utilizes the inherent strength of structural deck and the aesthetic appeal of a flat ceiling and the linear plank look of wood. It provides architectural and structural design communities a vast array of floor and roof deck options that can beautify an environment for any use.

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Benefiting from a recognized expertise in the construction field, Canam now offers its steel structure detailing services to support you with all your industrial, commercial, multi-residential, sports or bridge projects. 

From now on, you will be able to enjoy a high-end service with many benefits:

• A qualified workforce (140 detailers available)
• The latest 3D modeling technology (Tekla, SDS/2)
• 3D models coordinated among project stakeholders
• Efficient work with standardized methods
• A shorter schedule with a quick turnaround time
• Strict quality control

Canam ensures all requests for information have been answered to and gives you Web access to follow the progress of your project.

A profitable business partnership at every level!

Contact us for a free quote

1-866-466-8769

detailingbid@canamgroupinc.com

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Canam Group and its business units took center stage at the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC) Alberta and Ontario Steel Design Awards that took place in Edmonton and Toronto last May 4 and 9 respectively. The following projects took a total of four awards:

CISC — Alberta Chapter

Division: Canam-Structures

Category: Collaboration

Rogers Place, Edmonton, Alberta. The Collaboration Award is presented to the project team who demonstrates “added value” to the project through collaborative project delivery approaches throughout the design and/or construction process. To illustrate the scale of the Rogers Place arena project, 9,000 tons of structural steel components and over 8,000 shop drawings entered into its construction. The girder that towers over the centre of the arena is 338 feet (103 m) long and weighs 400 tons.

CISC — Ontario Chapter

Division: Canam-Bridges

Category: Bridges

Burgoyne Bridge, St. Catharines, Ontario. The Award of Excellence in the Bridges category recognizes vehicle and pedestrian bridges in which structural steel is the primary building material, with judges focusing particularly on fabrication and erection challenges. The Burgoyne Bridge is a seven-lane, 1,090-feet (333-m) highway bridge. The bridge structure is composed of 2,830 tons of steel components and incorporates 44 pot bearings as well as four modular expansion joints fabricated by Goodco Z-Tech, a product of Canam-Bridges.

Division: Canam-Structures

Category: Engineering

The BMO Field expansion project in Toronto, Ontario, received the Award of Excellence in the Engineering category, which recognizes buildings, process plants or other structures in which engineering considerations predominantly influenced the design and construction of the structure. The second phase of this expansion project consisted in the fabrication and installation of a partial roof composed of three canopies.

From a technical standpoint, the roof is suspended from the girder that sits above it. The roof was first assembled on the ground and then installed on shoring towers that were subsequently removed using a complex procedure. The rounded shape of the column members and main girders also required non-standard connections, all of which were designed by the Canam-Structures engineering team.

Division: Canam-Buildings

Category: Architectural

The Vaughan Civic Centre Resource Library project in Vaughan, Ontario, received an Award of Excellence in Architecture, a category that recognizes buildings or other structures in which architectural considerations predominantly influenced the design of the structure.

Canam-Buildings supplied the steel deck components for this 36,000-square feet (3,306-m² ) library, a project designed to meet LEED^® Silver certification requirements.

Congratulations to all the winners!

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Joist and deck project manager Sara Rankohi, P.Eng., M.Sc., of Canam-Buildings, a division of Canam Group, will be a guest speaker at the upcoming Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) Annual Conference that takes place May 31 to June 3, 2017 in Vancouver.

Ms. Rankohi will first present a case study of the construction of Nanaimo Memory Care Residence, a multi-residential project, in which she will discuss the innovative engineering solutions applied by Canam Group teams, including building information modeling (BIM) and the BuildMaster project delivery system.

The second presentation, which is based on a paper Ms. Rankohi wrote in collaboration with McGill University, will focus on structural analyses of multi-functional graded materials and their applications in structural engineering.

Moreover, Sara Rankohi will co-chair the 5th Graduate Student Colloquium in Construction, a venue for construction graduate students to showcase their research work, which takes place immediately prior to the CSCE Annual Conference.

Sara Rankohi, P.Eng., M.Sc., Project Manager, Joist and Deck, Canam-Buildings, a division of Canam Group

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Canam-Buildings was awarded second place in the ICI Roofing, Cladding & Decking category, for the photo of the Sanford Coyote Sports Center project located in Vermillon, South Dakota. Winners were announced at the annual meeting of members of the Canadian Sheet Steel Building Institute (CSSBI) held on June 4, 2017 in Vancouver.

The photo taken by Cipher Imaging showed the size of the arena ceiling with its standard and cranked joists and steel deck.

Another reason to be proud!

About CSSBI
CSSBI is Canada’s foremost authority on sheet steel, its products, and many applications. It’s an industry association responsible for the development and dissemination of industry standards. A source for technical information and resources, it provides expert guidance to the general public and sheet steel manufacturers alike. Their overall mission is to pursue the advancement of sheet steel as the most durable and reliable building material on the market today.

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It was with great pride that members of the Canam-Buildings team learned that the Philip Simmons High School project in Charleston, South Carolina, won a 2017 Design Award in the “Unique” category. These awards are given out by the Steel Joist Institute based on criteria such as speed of construction, value and aesthetic considerations.

The jury was won over by the use of girders 120 inches (3 metres) deep and 118 feet (36 metres) long, double pitched joists spanning 60 feet (18 metres), KCS joists and standard sloping joists. The use of sloping and double pitched joists offered the architect the ability to design high and low roofs that blend with the architecture style of the Charleston area.

Building this 214,000 square foot (19,881 m²) project required us to fabricate 275 tons of joists and girders, 37,500 square feet (3,484 m²) of Reveal Series steel deck, 94,700 square feet (8,798 m²) of roof deck and 87,500 square feet (8,129 m²) of Lok-Floor deck. All steel components were fabricated at the Canam Group plant in Jacksonville, Florida.

Congratulations to all the teams that participated in the construction of this project!

Philip Simmons High School project in Charleston, South Carolina, won a 2017 Design Award in the “Unique” category

Canam’s joist and deck system provides the structural capability to create large open spaces in a manner that is architecturally and acoustically pleasing

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Canam-Buildings, a subsidiary of Canam Group, recently added new features and improvements to an online tool that calculates maximum loads for various types of roof deck. Canam-Buildings’ engineering tools are designed to make calculations that comply with current steel construction industry standards.

Personalized tables to calculate maximum roof deck loads

It is now possible to generate tables that calculate maximum roof deck loads according to the specific needs of your project, directly from Canam-Buildings’ website.

The changes made to the online tool now allow users to:

• Display various spans maximum loads at the same time by selecting the generate load tables option
• Select the start span and span increment to generate custom tables
• Select deflection criteria (L/180, L/240, L/360), as well as personalized bearing surfaces (exterior and interior)
• Generate PDF files

We invite you to discover the changes made to the Roof Deck — Maximum Loads tool.

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Course: AIA CES – RS101R

Being an authorized service provider of continuing education by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Canam-Buildings, a subsidiary of Canam Group, invites you to organize a Lunch and Learn within your company. During this lunch and learn, you will discover the acoustic and aesthetic benefits of using Reveal Series architectural steel deck in roof systems.

This presentation is intended, among others, to help designers recognize the difference between how standard acoustical metal deck profiles absorb sound and how dovetail metal deck profiles absorb sound. Understanding these features will allow them to specify the best deck system in a given commercial environment.

Book a Lunch and Learn

Reveal Series architecturally exposed steel deck was used for the Riverdale Country School located in the Bronx in New York.

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In order to meet customers’ expectations, Canam-Buildings, a subsidiary of Canam Group, recently enhanced and updated the document entitled Standard Connection Details, which can be downloaded in PDF or DWG format.

This document which presents a variety of joist and joist girder connections was completely redesigned. Some issues that raised questions were clarified, precautionary methods were integrated and new types of connections were added.  

The use of joist and girder connection details, as described by Canam-Buildings, is highly recommended for several reasons including the minimization of the risk of error.

Connection details presented in this document meet Canadian standards.

View the document without delay!

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