Estimating
Nothing new so far on the solar farm, just waiting for the drawings. It sounds like there won't be much work on this job until next spring.

We are still working with Ellsin Environmental and we would like to get started soon. We are in the process of securing the financing for this lease-to-own project. We want to get the foundations completed and backfilled as quickly as possible and the Steelway building could arrive in January. The schedule is to have the building up and the floors poured prior to the arrival of the equipment in March of 2010.

We are waiting for the Owner of the Co-Gen plant to get all of his paperwork in order and then we can continue to work on the 240,000 square foot building and foundations. There are still several approvals required before the actual design work can start.

The hanger buildings for Sudbury and Thunder Bay have been put on hold until next spring.

The project that we re-priced for Essar Steel was to be a high priority job but we have not heard a word about it. We are also working on a budget price for another large job as well as looking at the re-tender of the Service Corridor pipe foundations.

We submitted our pricing for the 16,500 square foot manufacturing plant and are now working on the financing for the lease-to-own arrangement.

We submitted pricing to Essar Steel for the completion of the #3 PHT Furnace foundations. This is the project that we did last year and it was put on hold at the beginning of the recession. Since Essar never closed out our contract we thought they would get us to finish it and close out the contract, guess we figured wrong. Hopefully we were the low bidder.

Ken has been working very closely with JJ Hilsinger for his next Phase of renovations at the Water Tower Inn which should begin by the end of this month. JJ says it will be very impressive!

We are waiting to have a meeting scheduled for the construction of another plant in the Sault. This project has been given City approval and is in the early design stages and property negotiations.

We are anxiously waiting for the tender documents for Phase Two of the Algoma University Bioscience building.

The Estimating Department has decided to drop out of the tendering for the Design-Build tender for the Invasive Species Centre. It's too bad they chose to tender it this way; it was not the proper way to do it. Plus they extended the closing date the afternoon before it closed and it closed in Toronto so you would have already sent your tender out. The next day we received about 12 email addendum's. We were told the budget was $9 million at the pretender meeting and then an addendum came out and said the budget was between $6 to $7 million, so which is it? And who is going to analyze the tender packages to see what proposal is the best bang for the buck?

New Employees
We have just about everyone back to work. Gerry B. started back to work on November 2nd as he has now recovered from his knee replacement. Gerry, you best take it real easy!

AELP Co-Gen Foundations

John's crew continues to dwindle and now consists of Scott G, JR and Jake. They are still waiting for the gas holding tank to be completed and then they have about 230 metres of concrete to pour. They have now poured 4,597.5 metres of concrete in total. They are working on roof curbs, parapet walls, installing flashings and stair pads.

AELP Co-Gen Cladding Installation

We are working on the main Co-Gen building now. John M and Jason S have increased their crew size and their equipment on site. They now have Donnie C, Scott M, Ryan C, Terry G, Justin S, Tyler S, Cris P, Len B, Trevor M, Chris M, Mike M, Tyson D. and John B. They still have the Fraco Lift on site as well as a 66 foot manlift, two 80 foot manlifts and a 135 foot manlift. They had to use a 110 ton crane to hoist a 66 and an 80 foot manlift up onto the Dearator floor to gain access. They continue to install liner panel, Z bars, insulation and exterior siding. There is lots of cutting, flashings and bending of custom flashings in our shop.

Algoma University Biosciences & Technology Convergence Centre

Wayne is the Super on this project and Ken S. is the Project Manager. Wayne's crew consists of Bob H, Craig T, Jerry C. and Zak. Despite the very wet weather, the piling has been driven and is now complete and we are pouring the pile caps. Subtrades on site include Howard Avery Construction, General Contracting, McLeod Bros Mechanical, Phase 4 Electric and DMC Reinforcing. We have nicked named this jobsite the "Clay Bowl" as the ground is all clay and most of the surrounding area drains into it. Wayne had the MOL Inspector on site and everything was OK. The pouring of the floor slabs is scheduled to begin in early November and then we can start the walls.

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Federal Building Foundations
This project is basically complete except for some stairs and a ramp which will be completed in early November. Bob H, Craig T, Randy D. and Andy S. did most of the work and have now headed over to the Algoma U project.
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Brookfield Power Generating Station Misc. Repairs
Dwayne is the Super on this job as well as the Labourer, the Carpenter and the Steel Erector. Dwayne has been working on the various sites and hires a labourer from Provost Contracting when the need arises. It appears that he got a bit of snow on October 22nd and he was kind enough to send us some pictures. Yikes!
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Brookfield Power- Scott Falls Spray Foam Insulation
Dwayne completed this project while he was up north. Algoma Insulations did the spraying and things went well. They had to erect quite a bit of scaffolding to access the wall areas and to get up and over the equipment.
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Tenaris Algoma Tubes Settling Pond Liner Replacement
Tim will be the Project Manager on this job and Ken Coventry (KKC) is the Super. General Contracting has started on site. Ken has Andy S. assisting him. They have had a lot of problems with underground locates as no one seems to know much about them or where they are. Tenaris has also added some extra work to our contract.
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Praxair T900 Oxygen Plant
KKC will be gearing up to complete some of the work on this project and the remaining work will be completed next spring.

Bob Ryckman, our Safety Director, put on the Fall Protection re-certification training course for 16 of our guys and included some aerial rescue with it. Paride from CSAO provided Bob with some training materials and Dwayne assisted. We still have more guys for re-certification but 16 guys at once is about all that we can handle in our Training Room.

We have registered several of our Supers and Safety Reps for the CSAO Basic Auditing Principals scheduled for November 25th and possibly 3 or 4 men in the CSAO Health & Safety Rep, Part 1.

We held our Management Safety Meeting on October 29th. Items discussed were our Project Specific H & S Process and how it relates to Project Bidding, Pre-mobilization, Large Project H&S Plans, Small Project H&S Plans, Project Execution, Project Audit and Project Review and Follow-up. We also reviewed our Accident and Incident Frequencies to date, the status of our active projects and that of pending projects.

CONVENTIONS & SOCIAL EVENTS
Our staff Christmas Party is on Friday, December 4th at the Water Tower Inn. Please make sure you RSVP and you let your spouse or significant other know about the event and date!

The November Birthday Club:
Trevor M. November 5th
Jason S. November 9th
Donnie C. November 14th
Jamie H. November 16th
Dwayne P. November 27th
Ken James November 27th

Mike Moore & Sons Construction's Donation Status

2009 Donation Goal	50
Donations to Date	46

November Clinic Times
Tuesday, November 24th 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Wednesday, November 25th 11:00 am to 7:30 pm

I am putting out an urgent plea to all of our employees to get out to the last few clinics and make your donation in order for us to meet or surpass our goal!

Tibits

Another good one from Shauna.

A husband and wife were sitting watching a TV program about psychology and mixed emotions when he turned to his wife and said, "Honey, that's a bunch of crap; I bet you can't tell me anything that will make me happy and sad at the same time."

She said, "You have the biggest penis out of all your friends."

And here is one more:

Three men were hiking through a forest when they came upon a large raging, violent river. Needing to get to the other side, the first man prayed: "God, please give me the strength to cross the river."
Poof! God gave him big arms and strong legs and he was able to swim across in about 2 hours, having almost drowned twice.

After witnessing that, the second man prayed: "God, please give me strength and the tools to cross the river."
Poof!. . . God gave him a rowboat and strong arms and strong legs and he was able to row across in about an hour after almost capsizing once.

Seeing what happened to the first two men, the third man prayed: "God, please give me the strength, the tools and the intelligence to cross the river."
Poof! . . He was turned into a woman. She checked the map, hiked one hundred yards up stream and walked across the bridge!

If at first you don't succeed, do it the way your wife told you!

We now have 577,426 man hours with no Lost Time Injuries (LTI) or a total of 4,079 days. We only have 422,574 man hours to go to reach our goal of 1,000,000 accident free hours. Great job guys and keep it up please!

We were hired by Black Loon Millworks to unload their new state-of-the-art IMO Advantage 70 edge bander fondly referred to as "The Beast." It weighed in at 10,000 lbs. Dwayne was the Supervisor on the job and had help from Wayne and Fred of Black Loon. Congratulations to Black Loon on their new purchase!
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The gas prices in the Sault never cease to amaze me. On Sunday, November 1st I filled up at the Shell and spoke to a guy who had filled up in Sudbury the day before. Sudbury is $0.919 and the Sault is $1.069, why are we 15 cents higher?

Dwayne tells me that Kim is now playing in a women's hockey league and that she got her first points with an assist in her very first game. Go get them Kimmie!

In the Sault Star October 14th paper there was an interesting article in the "50 Years Ago" section. The Board of Education had just awarded the contract to build the new Bawating High School to Newman Bros. for a price tag of $1.22 million. The tender that closed not long ago for the replacement of Bawating came in at around $41 million!
Bawating School Sault Star article