Business View Magazine | June 2019

153 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 Australia, and we are their local subsidiary in North America." The Bothar Group has offices in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America; operating globally with about 1,000 employees of 32 nationalities. IPC has a yard, workshop, and one office in Calgary with a regular staff of 25 employees that increases with temporary hires when the company moves onto a project. Hennig explains, “You don’t find a lot of skilled laborers and contractors for what we do, so we’ve been training a lot of people over the last three years and we keep bringing them back to our projects. As we grow, we try to take on more of those temporary hires into full-time positions. We also work with local subcontractors (crane operators, welders, etc.), but the people working with the tunneling equipment are directly employed with us.” IPC has engaged projects across Canada and internationally which involve all aspects of EPC (engineering, procurement, and construction), depending on client needs and the scope of the project. The DPI (Direct Pipe Installation) one- pass system is a patented process developed out of Herrenknecht in Germany. There are only a few contractors in the world who use that application of tunneling technology, mainly for pipeline construction. Direct Pipe is very applicable to the Canadian oil and gas market, but IPC does other types of tunneling for municipal work on infrastructure programs such as wastewater, fresh water, and utility tunnels in major cities. INNOVAT I VE P I PEL INE CROSS INGS , INC .