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Retractable Roof Makes it's Move

Monday, January 7, 2008


Shawn Lochbaum, Colony's Vice President in charge of Business Development, received the call from Dave Adema P.Eng., Senior Mechanical Engineer Teck Cominco Ltd. in regards to a building Dave and Teck Cominco required at Highland Valley Copper near Logan Lake, B.C. The building Highland Valley needed was a Mantle Rebuild Shop that sat between two much taller structures and required a 15 ton crane inside. Not a particularly difficult design, but adding to the complexity was the requirement for a mechanically retractable weatherproof roof system. Apparently Dave had been in contact with a different building supplier who had recognized that what Dave needed was beyond their capabilities and had been so kind as to give Shawn's name and number to Dave Adema. "It's a maintenance building, but fairly specialized" Dave remarked. "We needed access through the roof which is really what makes this building not quite an off the shelf item." Both Shawn and Dave were able to work together to come up with a design that the two felt would work. Colony was then awarded the contract and the job of getting the project built was given to Martin Gostelow, one of Colony's senior Project Managers.

"Martin has done a real good job" Dave Adema reported, "The communication paths have been good. Martin is interested in making sure that we're a happy customer." The co-ordination of differing mechanical parts for the retractable roof was an accomplishment in itself. Ensuring that what had not been done before could be done now and operate properly wasn't an easy task. On top of all of this was the assurance that the retractable roof would also be weather tight, which added to the demand placed upon the Colony Design team. Kallin Li, Project Services for Colony, greatly assisted Martin in determining what needed to happen to make the whole system work. "In Logan Lake the weather can be, at times very severe. We needed to take this, as well as the functionality of the retractable roof system into consideration when developing the details for this system" advised Kallin. Overall, the project was a complete success. "I think pretty highly of Martin" Dave Adema confirmed. And we at Colony do too.

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Retractable Roof Makes it's Move
Posted by Colony Management on Monday, January 07, 2008


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