Quebec-based Ventilex has landed a $10 million contract to design and install ventilation and air conditioning systems in Montreal’s 26-storey Deloitte Tower.
Calling the win “one of the most important ventilation and air conditioning contracts awarded in the Quebec construction industry in recent years,” company president Yves Rousseau also says it will be a “major challenge for the company.”
“It is a very tight schedule, the difficulty of access to downtown Montreal which requires a high degree of coordination/integration for the daily delivery,” he said of the company’s biggest contract to date. “We’re are going to have access early in the morning but we’ll have to plan everything.”
At 514,000 square feet, the Deloitte Tower is Montreal’s first 26-storey building and the first office tower in more than a decade. It is owned by Cadillac Fairview Corporation and the general contractor is CAL/PCL consortium.
Construction started in October 2012 near the Bell Centre in the city’s downtown core and is scheduled for completion in June 2015. It is targeting LEED Platinum Certification.
“We will be installing the system under the raised floor and we’re going floor by floor from the bottom up as they build,” he said. “This type of design gives tenants a lot more flexibility in terms of interior space but it means space is very tight.”
He said the project is somewhat similar to the system at the 33-storey EVOLO 1 Tower on Nun’s Island which has two entire floors of HVAC mechanical.
At the Deloitte Tower he said there’s a system for each floor with a main mechanical on the top floor and another one in the middle of the building.
Using a Dokaflex 15 system they have already poured the fourth floor slab for the mechanicals. The system allows for rapid set up and installation with fast cure times, he said, which is helpful given the tight schedule.
The Deloitte Tower contract is the icing on the cake for Ventilex which has had a strong run over the last few years.
Founded in 1975, Ventilex headquartered in Saint-Eustache, Que., has been picking up LEED certification for a series of projects the innovative HVAC systems in the VISTAL 1 & 2 Towers, EVOLO 1 & 2, the Montreal Biodiversity Centre, and the Maison du Développement, Quebec’s greenest commercial building. It also did all the HVAC work at Quebec Construction Commission LEED building in North Montreal.
Rousseau said Ventilex’s success is due in big part to its employees in an integrated team allowing a concept to design to installation work flow. It results in more efficiency and better cost control
“It brings all the important players at the table at the early stage of the project,” he said. “Compared to the old fashion construction method, our design-assist method develops a project with a strong and highly motivated team which generates a synergy and comes up with creative ideas.”
Being aware of cutting edge design is also critical to future growth, he added, for example, noting that emerging hydronic systems combined with ventilation systems at low temperature with a wireless control systems initially seen as an idea for retrofitting existing buildings to refresh their life cycle at an affordable cost.
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