Estimating
The rumor is that we are to get the final layout for the 20 MW site on Base Line very shortly for the solar farm and that POD wants to put up the fencing and do the site grading this fall and then start the actual solar farm construction next spring. Wow, that would be five months to have it completed and tied into the grid; very tight schedule considering the anticipated manpower shortage next year. And that does not include the other 40 MW site that has to be tied into the grid by next December.

Tim submitted pricing for the Tenaris Algoma Tubes settling pond liner replacement and the Tenaris security gates installation tenders. We have been awarded the liner replacement project after much negotiation.

We are working on revised pricing for Ellsin Environmental and they want to get started this fall. The building will be 10,000 square feet with a small office area and will be a lease-to-own contract.

Ken was the successful bidder on the Phase 1 tender for Algoma University's new Bioscience & Technology Convergence Centre which consists of the foundations and piling. Ken's price was $809,000.00 and the other prices were from TESC at $918,900.00, George Stone at $938,000.00, Palmer at $998,000.00 and Tarvudd at $1,114,000.00. Ken left a bit of money on the table but he says I told him to get us a job! Guess that's what he did!

We submitted pricing for the 240,000 square foot building up north with five different options for the interior column spacing and we are waiting to hear back from the Owner. There will be a substantial amount of concrete on this project as well. This one is another OPG project which has received approval and will have to proceed.

No word on the two hanger buildings in Thunder Bay and Sudbury that we submitted pricing on.

Ken submitted pricing on the Gartshore G.S. Emergency Stop Log Replacement which requires some diving operations but we were not the low bidder.

We are bidding the new North Street Secondary School through a possible Joint Venture agreement with Giffels Corporation from Toronto. The budget for this project is about $36 million. The tender date has been extended to October 7th. Ken and Tim may be flying to Toronto to assist with the tender closing.

We were also requested to update our price for a project in Essar Steel that we priced last fall. The project was put on hold but now it is a high priority job. Hopefully it will proceed this time.

We are working on a price for a design-build manufacturing plant which hopefully will proceed next spring. The 16,500 square foot Steelway building and the land would be on a lease-to-own basis.

New Employees
Nothing new to report here but things are starting to shape up for a busy winter!

AELP Co-Gen Foundations

John and his dwindling crew consisting of Scott G, JR, Jerry C, Chris M. and Jake M are almost complete. They have about 230 metres of concrete to pour at the gas holding tank once it is complete. Most of John's crew has now moved over to the cladding project.

AELP Co-Gen Cladding Installation

We have completed the cladding for the Pump House and are starting the main Co-Gen building. John M and Jason S are over seeing this project as the Supers and Clinton is the Project Manager. Their crew currently consists of Donnie, Ryan, Terry and Trevor. We hope to have it completed by the end of November or early December, weather permitting; Dwayne is helping them out. Instead of using man lifts or swing stage Dwayne has been investigating the use of a Fraco mast climbing platform systems. He has rental rates from Mine Equipment Resources from Sudbury. This system consists of a single mast or tower and has two 50 foot long platforms at different level; it also has a 4,000 lb. material handling crane on the lower platform. The system is able to reach heights of 130 feet and is power operated. These systems can actually be designed for a maximum working height of 550 feet. We are hoping to get some pictures of this system in action.

Algoma University Biosciences & Technology Convergence Centre

Wayne is the Super on this project and Ken S. is the Project Manager. Wayne will be starting the piling the first week of October and then the concrete. Howard Avery Construction will be driving the piles for us. Wayne will have to really push this job in order to try and beat the cold weather and snow. We hear that snow is projected to arrive before Thanksgiving, hope the weather forecaster is wrong on that one!

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Federal Building Foundations
We have just about completed all of the foundation walls and pads on this project. We were held up for a week while the S & T plumbers completed the underground plumbing. Ken C (KKC) is the Super and Ken S is the Project Manager. KKC has Bob, Craig, Andy and Randy as his crew. They have one more wall pour left and then they will get prepared for the floor slab. This project should be completed within the next few weeks depending on weather.
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Brookfield Power Generating Station Misc. Repairs
We have finally received our Letter of Intent and should get going on this project shortly. It involves work at Scott G.S, Dunford G.S. and the Wawa Work Centre. Tim will be the Project Manager on this one, we are still undecided as to who the Superintendent will be.

Brookfield Power- Scott Falls Spray Foam Insulation
We have also received the approval to proceed on this project and will schedule the work shortly. Algoma Insulations will be doing the spray foam work for us.

PowerTel Andrews G.S. Foundations
Dwayne, Mike M and Scott M are doing this small job. It involves the pouring of three 32" diameter sono tubes however the work is in and around the existing Generating Station. Some of the excavation work will undermine existing tower foundations and PowerTel will have to retain them in place with their boom truck.
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Essar Steel No. 7 Blast Furnace Control Room Emergency Repairs
We were asked by Essar Steel and Service Master, as a preferred contractor, to get a crew together to do some scaffolding and work platforms in order for Service Master to carry out some ceiling repairs in the Control Room over top of all of the computer stations. Clinton is heading up this project. This work was a direct result of the No. 7 Blast Furnace problem.

Tenaris Algoma Tubes Settling Pond Liner Replacement
Tim will be the Project Manager on this job and Ken Coventry (KKC) will be the Super. General Contracting will be doing the sitework and Layfield Environmental Systems will be doing the liner replacement. Our crew will be doing the concrete work.

We are still working with Paride from CSAO with regards to Fall Protection recertification for all of our guys and we hope to be able to include a degree of Aerial Rescue training with it. Paride is hoping to do a Confined Space Awareness course for all of our Supers and Safety Reps which will involve 17 guys.

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 September 24th. Discussion took place regarding our review of accident and incident frequencies, progress on our 2009 objectives, pre-shift truck inspections, review of the Gartshore G.S. safety audit, accident investigation report and our new Safety Resource Centre which is now on line.

Our Safety Director, Bob Ryckman carried out a Safety Audit of the Gartshore G.S. Control Room Addition with assistance from Dwayne and his crew. The audit report is 59 pages long and the jobsite scored 80% in compliance/conformance which is quite impressive. I have attached the Audit Summary Results page for your viewing. A total of 2 non-compliance issues relating to the OHSA were found; both pertaining to expired worker training records. A total of 20 non-conformance issues were found; most pertaining to activities at the Project Planning stage. This is understandable as our Project Planning is a new format stage and we are still getting used to it.
Audit Summary Results chart

Speaking of our new Project Planning, Bob is doing a fantastic job on these. I have attached the Health & Safety Management Plan "Table of Contents" for the Co-Gen cladding project we are doing. It shows you how in-depth they are. These plans are now completed for every one of our projects prior to starting on the jobsite.
Health & Safety Management Plan

Bob has also been busy with writing our new Ergonomics Program as well as re-writing our Return to Work Program.

We have also launched our extremely impressive on-line "Safety Resource Centre." This will be a very useful tool for the Supers and their Safety Reps. It is an icon on our desktop screen and it contains information on such things as Accidents/Incidents. Environmental Items, blank forms and check lists, Hazard Alerts, JSA's, Health and Safety Management System, Safety Policy Manual and our Safety Program. Each Super or Safety Rep is able to access the information from the jobsite computer and "pull off" what they require. It is in its early developmental stage and we will be adding more information to it. We want to include a database of MSDS sheets as well.

Conventions & Social Events
Just a reminder: 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!

Congratulations
A big congratulations to Barry Rushon, Don McBain and all of the Sault Steelers for winning the Canadian National Championship over the Edmonton Stallions by a score of 66 to 6. It was a GREAT game and the stands were packed as was the beer garden! This was a grand event for the Sault and all of the organizers should be congratulated for a job extremely well done; especially Rod Stone who worked very hard considering he just recently had a heart attack. He is a true Steelers fan!
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The October Birthday Club:
Nick W October 11th
John McC October 13th

Mike Moore & Sons Construction's Donation Status

October Clinic Times
Tuesday, October 20th 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Wednesday, October 21st 11:30 am to 2:30 pm & 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Thursday, October 22nd 9:00 am to 12:30 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 our goal!

Tibits

Here is a good one from Shauna.

Great dog story . . . . .

A guy is driving around and he sees a sign in front of a broken down house that says: "Talking Dog for Sale."
He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog is in the backyard.
The guy goes into the backyard and sees a nice looking Labrador retriever sitting there.
"You talk?" he asks.
"Yep" the Lab replies.
After the guy recovers from the shock of hearing a dog talk, he says "So, what's your story?"
The Lab looks up and says, "Well, I discovered that I could talk when I was pretty young. I wanted to help the government, so I told the Feds. In no time at all they had me jetting from country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world leaders because no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping. I was one of their most valuable spies for eight years running. But the jetting around really tired me out and I knew I wasn't getting any younger so I decided to settle down. I signed up for a job at the airport to do some undercover security, wandering near suspicious characters and listening in. I uncovered some incredible dealings and was awarded a batch of medals. I got married, had a mess of puppies and now I'm just retired."
The guy is amazed. He goes back in and asks the owner what he wants for the dog.
"Ten dollars" the guy says.
"Ten dollars? This dog is amazing! Why on earth are you selling him so cheap?"
"Because he's a liar. He never did any of that stuff!"

I have to say I am sorry for how late this newsletter has been launched but it is really busy and I have just run out of time; I will try and launch next month's on time.

We now have 572,311 man hours with no Lost Time Injuries or a total of 4,051 days. We only have 427,689 man hours to go to reach our goal of 1,000,000 accident free hours. Great job guys and keep it up please!

Our girl Scarlett, who works in the office, took a vacation to St. Lucia to visit a fabulous health spa. We understand she had an unbelievable time and can't wait to go back.

Dan Padden sent me a Dementia Quiz to take in order to see just how sharp you are with quick quiz answers. Guess I am not that sharp as I went 0 in 4 on correct answers. I have attached the quiz below if you want to try and see just how sharp you might be. Remember to answer the questions as quickly as you can.
Dementia quiz

Rolf Skiperis, our Steelway Sales Rep, finally came to the Sault to present us with our 2008 awards which consisted of the District Performance Award, the Million Dollar Club award and the 10 Years Service award. I was a rose between two tall thorns in the attached picture! The short guy is the rose, that's me.
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I just had to include a short note regarding Ken Stitt's recent purchase of his prized car. He found his "dream car" on line and bought it. It is an older Toyota Celica, a car that he used to own and sold but now has a similar beauty back. Guess we will be seeing a lot of this beauty next summer!
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