Penta Protective Coatings Ltd. recently became a key service provider for the major expansion program underway at Edmonton International Airport (EIA).
EIA is undergoing a $1.1 billion expansion critical to the airport’s ongoing success as a hub for northwestern Canada. The airport – the fifth busiest in Canada – serves more than six million passengers who fly to destinations in Canada, the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean and Europe. The Edmonton Regional Airports Authority anticipates that by 2013, the airport will see nine million passengers per year.
To accommodate this growth, the airports authority has embarked upon a three-phase, five-year redevelopment plan with PCL Construction Limited (PCL) that upon completion in 2012, will result in a LEED ® Certified facility and improve the overall passenger experience.
Airside redevelopment includes new aircraft bridges, as well as a new apron for aircraft parking. Groundside, there will be a new NAV Canada control tower complex with expanded restaurants, retail and office space, an integrated baggage room to allow baggage drop-off at designated locations across the terminal, new parking facilities, and an expanded south passenger terminal building.
Penta is fireproofing the structural steel in the south passenger terminal building using a spray on material that gives it a rating expressed in terms of time to prevent catastrophic collapse. The expansion totals 446,000 square feet and will include 167,000 square feet of renovations to key facilities in the existing terminal building.
We completed a rigorous pre-qualification process with PCL last year. We have been doing this type of work for 10 years and fireproofing is one of our key service offerings. Because our work shone through, we were asked to bid for the project.
The bid involved a significant amount of pre-planning to come in at a competitive price.
While this was a relatively small portion of the overall project, it is huge for us and we are pleased to be a part of it.
Denny James, Penta’s project manager, noted that there are six crews on site who are meeting the project schedule. They started in early May and anticipate completion in late summer or early fall.
“Although the project is logistically complex I have a great workforce and I look forward to exceeding expectations.”
