November 5, 2008

Seacliff Construction wins two contracts totalling $90 million

Richard Gilbert

staff writer

In less than a week, a Vancouver-based construction company was awarded two major contracts worth a combined total of about $90 million.

The recent awards are an example of the strength of the institutional construction sector in western Canada.

Seacliff Construction announced that its Dominion Construction contracting division has been awarded a $40 million construction management contract for the replacement of the roofing system at the Talisman Centre in Calgary, Alberta.

The centre is the second busiest multi-sport facility in North America and has a cable-supported white fabric roof.

“With nearly a century of construction experience, Dominion has the logistics expertise to ensure there will be no interruption of service,” said Bill Crarer, Seacliff CEO

“We also view this new contract win as additional evidence that activity within Western Canada’s institutional construction sector remains strong, despite the recent volatility in global financial markets.”

The current roof is still structurally sound, but an engineering team recommended a roofing replacement no later than 2010 to avoid expensive, unplanned shutdowns.

Construction of the new roof is scheduled to begin in late 2009 and be completed by Dec. 31, 2010.

This was the second major institutional infrastructure contract Seacliff announced in less than a week.

The company also announced that Dominion Construction won a $50-million construction management contract for the building of a new engineering and management building at University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO) in Kelowna, B.C.

The Engineering and Management Building will have 15,028 square metres (186,000 sq. ft.) of space, which will include lecture theatres, classrooms, research labs and office space

The construction of the new facility will commence later this year, with project completion scheduled for late 2010.

Construction will be partially funded by a $40 million contribution from the B.C. government.

The B.C. government has committed a total of $100 million to the university’s facilities expansion program, the balance of which will be used to help fund the construction of a Health Sciences Centre and a second Arts and Sciences Building at the campus.

UBCO plans to expand its building space from 46,400 square metres (0.5 million sq. ft.) to 139,000 sq. m. (1.5 million sq. ft.) by 2010.

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