These days, LAING also does a majority of their work in-house, with their own machines in their own yard. They have their own 18x8 high-speed CNC router table, for example, and they fabricate their own ACM panels. They also have two CNC brakes, so they fabricate their own flashings. When it comes to steel, Darran says they can “make anything custom inhouse – if you can think it up, we can build it.” With their substantial capacity, LAING can take on a wide variety of projects, including some major ones. A recent example is the $45-million expansion of the Penticton General Hospital, where LAING did all the wall panel systems. Darran describes that project as “challenging, for sure.” “We were timeline-challenged as well as accessibilitychallenged,” he says. “It was an existing structure, and there was only so much access. It was an 11-storey building and most of the panels were put on through a swing stage. Just manipulating the swing stage to where we had to get to was really difficult at times.” Another recent example of a major project would be the recently-completed Phantom Creek Estates Winery in Oliver. There, LAING worked in conjunction with Keith Panel Systems (KPS), who offer a product called Ombrae™ – which is a panel that uses computer digital processing and state-of-the-art manufacturing techniques to create three-dimensional pixels in the panel surface, with each pixel reflecting a varying tone of light, and ultimately generating imagery on the panel surface. At Phantom Creek Estates, “the whole bottom of the building NOVEMBER 2022
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