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Challenges

• Ensure that European suppliers of production equipment, designed by Avestor researchers, adhered to Canadian manufacturing standards.
• Meet an extremely tight construction schedule by dividing the work into five separate construction lots with design/construction activities in rotation.

Challenges

• Act as a liaison between the professionals and equipment suppliers, respecting tight deadlines.
• Modify the design without changing the program in order to meet budget constraints.
• Negotiate with CN and Hydro-Québec to allow parking spaces in their rights of way.
• Ensure that ventilation and chemical detection systems were appropriate for an environment in which chlorine products are handled.

Challenges

• Build a factory using emerging technologies for biodiesel production.
• Participate in the procurement and installation of processing equipment.
• Adhere to the schedule in order to meet a subsidy deadline.

Verreault, a Dessau subsidiary specializing in construction, was responsible for the initial 75,000-sq. ft. expansion of NCB2-class clean rooms. A second expansion, 50,000 sq. ft. on two levels, included chemistry, microbiology and virology laboratories, environmental chambers, validated cold rooms, an NCB2 high-containment seed-preparation zone (NCB3 construction standards), and a 50,000-cu. ft. validated freezer.

A subsequent 13,000-sq. ft. expansion began with the

construction of a change room for 200 people, an NCB2 high-containment clean change room (NCB3 construction standards), and expansion of the cooker area.

Verreault is currently adding a new 85,000-sq. ft. filling and packaging line and a new 37,000-sq. ft. office building. These projects are being built with the aim of receiving LEED and LEED Gold certification respectively.

Challenges

• Conduct construction operations near ongoing vaccine production operations, requiring a high level of containment.
• Integrate mechanical elements into the structure in a complex pharmaceutical setting comprising a number of mechanical elements and process services.
• Complete the first three expansions in fast-track mode.

Challenges

• As the primary design consideration, consider safety issues related to the battery cycling process.
• Design two cycling compartments with maintenance of physical integrity in case of fire, effective smoke removal into smoke chambers and sprinklers in the compartments.
• Construction of the ground-floor “bunker-style” cycling floor.

Challenges

• Complete the work in an environment with significant hazards due to the nature of the plant’s operations.
• Complete final connections in a short 28-day window, working 24 hours a day, while maintaining high safety standards on the site.

Challenges

• Design a system of pipes with temperature differential for transporting bitumen at high temperatures: a central pipe for bitumen at 175°C and two concentric pipes for thermal oil, at a higher temperature as a heating agent for the bitumen.

Challenges

• Set up new equipment at the site, often in tight spaces.
• Modify new equipment, based on upgrades previously made by the company to its obsolete equipment.

Challenges

• Build Quebec’s first large biopharmaceutical plant.
• Lay out 8 category-10000 clean rooms.
• Build quality-control laboratories.
• Integrate an Ice Bank system into the design.
• Modify work midstream to accommodate the addition of new processes.
• Plant construction using GMP principles.
• FDA audit following transfer of facilities to Bio-Intermediair.

Challenges

• Coordinate delivery of processing equipment from more than 10 different countries within a very tight schedule.
• Design and build the factory in the absence of specific standards or codes for glassworks.
• Build an 80-metre smokestack in line with the Quebec City airport runway.