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Saskatchewan employers are eligible for a subsidy of up to
50% of an Aboriginal apprentice's wages for up to 52 weeks
Access to the Aboriginal labour market
Job coaching, essential skills training
Assistance with the indenturing process and costs
Support for both the employer and apprentice
through to journeyperson status
For more details contact the Apprenticeship Coordinator:
1-877-488-6888
apprenticeships@gdins.org
Weather
Mother Nature is a factor on any construction job – but on a P3 proj-ect
with strict timelines and significant fines for delays, there’s little
room for bad weather days. A relatively mild winter in 2016 helped
keep the earth moving, but Clunie says they’ve always got their eyes
on the sky.
“We take advantage of every good day because you never know
when it’s going to start raining. I won’t say we’re out of the woods
until we’re completed,” he says.
Risky Regina clay
The earth materials on some locations are less than desirable to
work with, says Clunie. The high plasticity index of the Regina clay,
which comprises the first layer of the earth, is wet, clumpy and
heavy.
“You have to spend a lot of time drying it out for optimum mois-ture.
The density is significantly high. It’s difficult material to work
with,” he explains.
One of the ways they’ve mitigated this challenge has been creat-ing
deeper borrow pits to expose more till.
“It means we’re hauling longer, but we’re able to reduce settlement
times on large embankments and stay on schedule,” says Clunie.
Scheduling and coordination
Before its work is finished on the Regina Bypass Project, Broda
Group will have run 24/7 shifts with roughly 200 workers for close
to two years.
“It’s always a coordination process to keep the cycle of people and
logistics running smoothly. And because it’s a design-build, you’re
always challenged with designs keeping up with production,” Clunie
says. “Generally, it’s going fine, but it requires constant diligence.”
An on-site weekly meeting to discuss mechanics, assets, equip-ment
servicing, safety and engineering helps ensure constant com-munication
and quality control.
Stearns says RBDB’s commitment to excellence, safety and bring-ing
all players together as one team has been stellar.
“RBDB has done exceptionally well on the safety front, which is
critically important to this project,” he notes.
The Regina Bypass Project is expected to be completed by the end
of 2019. For more information, visit saskatchewan.ca/residents/
transportation/regina-bypass-project.
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D10 Crawler working in the Sentes Borrow Pit
saskheavy.ca | Quarter 3 2016 | Think BIG 47
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