On the fabrication side, Sam describes that project as “their most advanced pre-fab project up until that point.” He recalls that they had been prefabricating for about four years at the time and had done some pretty complex modular projects, but “Penticton was definitely a next step for us.” In this case, the complexity was a result of their decision to prefabricate structural steel multi-trade racks for the upper three floors. According to Sam, that involved a lot of collaboration and coordination between all of Pitt Meadows’s sub-trades as well as the electrical contractor and fire protection subcontractor. To start with, Sam explains that they would produce the structural steel in-house. “Then the sheet metal contractor would come in and finish their ducting. Thenwewould finish all of the piping. Then we’d mount all the VAV boxes and do all the piping into the VAV boxes. Then the electrician would come in and complete all of the cable trays and conduit runs.” “So we were essentially modularizing the entire corridor of a hospital,” he says. “We produced 53 of those for Penticton Regional Hospital. We delivered them in phases and it really helped reduce the overall schedule.” “Obviously corridors in a hospital are extremely complex,” he adds. “But wewere able to fully model everything, fabricate everything off site, and deliver them and install them in a fraction of the time.” On that project, Pitt Meadows Plumbing also did a lot of inwall assemblies, which they hadn’t done a lot of before, but THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
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