Business View Magazine - October 2018

212 213 gineers, the Mayor, city manager, legal, planning department, manager of economic development - everybody’s in the room to help and get things done in a timely manner. “As for tourism, we know people love coming here –Moose Jaw was voted the 3rd Coolest Downtown by Expedia and we’ve done some awesome things. Last year, we won the Coors One Horse Town Country Music Television (CMT) concert, beating out 26 other cities. Our down- town core was shut off to traffic, and Darius Rucker (formerly of Hootie & The Blowfish), Jess Moskaluke, Jon Pardi, and other big-name acts performed. The show was sponsored by Coors and televised nationally on CMT.We have great hotels and the community is engaged with beautifica- tion and cleanup efforts in the downtown district and in our parks.We have exciting plans for tourism coming. Stay tuned!” BVM: How does technolo- gy and employment fit into the City’s growth plans? Mayor Tolmie: “We just signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Moose Jaw and the Municipal Airport, Sask Polytech (our local post-secondary college), and CAE (the contractor that owns planes at 15 Wing Military Base) to do drone training. The plan is to introduce drone training in the course curriculum, but also look at the offsets of the new economies and how those Infrastructure upgrades on the Moose Jaw Cast Iron Water Replacement Phase II project ranged from approximately 2,200m of 250mm to 300mm water mains, including PVC and HDPE, as well as service lines to over 100 residences and businesses. Progress made by Ungar Construction as of September 2017 merited a request by the City of Moose Jaw for additional work on the mainline, however, winter conditions prevented extensions to the contract. Upgrading Moose Jaw’s almost century old infrastruc- ture required communication with engineering, City, and business owners, coupled with complex logisti- cal coordination, all critical for successful execution in efforts to limit impacts on local businesses. City infrastructure left in place for over 3 pipe generations provided challenges when tying in new infrastructure, not to mention working in a busy commercial district, at the heart of the City. Methods prescribed by the engineer were pipe bursting and open cut installation. Additional challenges included: - Environmental impact of soil on High Street; - Over 200 utility crossings; - Provision of temporary water to over 100 homes and businesses. - Mostly Type 3 and 4 soil conditions due to pre- viously excavated conditions; - Inability to achieve isolation in many tie in situ- ations due to poorly functioning valves; - Incomplete as built information; - Late award and early onset of winter, resulting compressed schedule. www.ungarconstruction.ca MOOSE JAW, SASKATCHEWAN PO Box 401 Theodore, SK S0A 4C0 Phone: 1-306-647-2511 Email: admin@ungarconstruction.ca Family owned and operated, with focus on quality and dependability, Ungar Construction has great clients and this is why: www.UngarConstruction.ca • Our teams are reliable •We employ industry experts • Our excellent safety program and full time safety officer •We invest in quality equipment including GPS technology We excel at servicing and building major distribution terminals, infrastructure for mines, oil and gas facilities, crown corporations and municipalities. We are proven throughout the Prairie Provinces. Testimonial from a great client and engineering team: “We very much appreciate the effort put in by Ungar and the technical quality of the project is very high. We have to echo the words of RVMB andWSA – the project execution on this is something that you can be proud of.” - L Gareau P.Eng, Golder Associates FRASER TOLMIE MAYOR