Question 1

KMK–25 Sea Rose Drive, St. John’s, Newfoundland

Accepted Answer

General Contractor: Allied Construction Management
Owner: KMK Capital
Products used: Ready mix concrete, precast concrete panels
Description: 4 story concrete tilt-up office building and parking garage totalling 135,000 square feet

Question 2

Pre-stressed Concrete Girders – Topsail Road, St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador

Accepted Answer

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Description: Capital Precast was awarded a contract to manufacture nine CPCI 1900A prestressed girders for the reconstruction of the Topsail Road Overpass. Some of the largest and longest girders ever made in a precast plant in Newfoundland, each girder measured 38.0m and had a total weight of 60.0 ton. Capital Precast is the only company in Newfoundland certified by CSA to manufacture precast concrete girders, and we have two stressing beds and the capacity to produce pre-stressed girders up to 44.0m in length.

Question 3

O’Neill Nissan, Mount Pearl, Newfoundland

Accepted Answer

General Contractor: JW Lindsay
Sub-contractors: MJR Masonry, Bursey’s Excavating
Owner: O’Neill Nissan
Products used: Ready mix concrete, precast manholes/catch basins, recon retaining wall block, masonry block
Description:  The state-of-the-art, flagship Nissan complex is second to none in North America. The new facility is NREDI 2.0 compliant with the Provincial Headquarters housed on the second floor. The project itself is $20 million dollars covering 55,000 sq. ft, located on 8 acres of sculpted landscape from the hillside of Topsail Road.

Question 4

Paradise School, Paradise, Newfoundland

Accepted Answer

General Contractor: JW Lindsay
Sub-contractors: Ideal Masonry, Bursey Excavating
Owner: Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
Products used: Ready Mix Concrete, Precast Manholes/Catch Basins, Masonry Block
Description: The first government-owned tilt-up concrete panel school to be completed in Newfoundland and Labrador, the new school is approximately 11,000 square metres over three floors and can accommodate more than 800 students from Grades 6 to 9. Newcrete supplied 4000 m3 of ready mix concrete to the project along with approximately 117,000 standard masonry units.

Question 5

Core Science, St. John’s, Newfoundland

Accepted Answer

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General Contractor: Marco Services
Sub-contractors: A&A Masonry, Bursey Excavating
Owner: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Products used: Ready mix concrete, masonry block, precast manholes/catch basins, Oaks concrete paving stones
Description:  Memorial University is the largest university in Atlantic Canada. The Core Science Facility, scheduled for completion in 2021, will provide modern research and laboratory teaching spaces primarily for the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. The total floor area of the building is approximately 45,000 square metres. Newcrete supplied all the ready mix concrete with a fleet of modern mixer trucks and majority of the placement through our 36 m and 32 m concrete pump trucks. 8900 m3 of concrete was delivered to the project.

Question 6

Grand Falls-Windsor Wastewater Treatment Facility Expansion, Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland

Accepted Answer

General Contractor: Springdale Forest Resources
Owner: Town of Grand Falls-Windsor
Products used: Concrete manholes/chambers and concrete headwalls
Description: Central Precast & Ready, along with Capital Precast, supplied products to complete an expansion of the Town of Grand Falls–Windsor’s existing wastewater treatment facility. The project included new infrastructure to address both future increase in wastewater flows requiring treatment as well as to improve the effluent quality. The expansion of the facility also included the addition of a wastewater aerated pond system that incorporated two to three new aerated cells, an ultraviolet (UV) disinfection treatment system and a sludge management system.

Question 7

The Residence at Littledale, 214 Waterford Bridge Road

Accepted Answer

General Contractor: Olympic Construction
Owner: The Cahill Group
Products used: Precast panel manufactured and installed by Capital Precast, ready mix concrete, masonry block
Description: The Residence at Littledale is a privately-owned independent and assisted living facility that provides quality care in a safe, comfortable environment. The Residence is a 120,000 square foot facility which has a total of 127 resident rooms. The construction of this facility began in the spring of 2018 and was completed in the fall of 2020. The building is a full concrete structure, made up of mainly concrete pre-cast panels. The pre-cast panels were manufactured in our facility, delivered to site and installed by Newcrete. The concrete required for the building structure was supplied by Newcrete. The quality of the concrete provided was exceptional and very durable and The Cahill Group is extremely happy with the finished product.

Question 8

National Defense Building – St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador

Accepted Answer

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Description: Capital Ready Mix supplied approximately 20,000m3 of concrete, 35,000 square feet of retaining wall units and 160,000 masonry block for the construction of our National Defense Building. The majority of the concrete was placed with concrete pumps.

Question 9

Long Harbour Processing Plant – Concrete Production, Long Harbour, Newfoundland & Labrador

Accepted Answer

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Description: In February 2010, Capital Ready Mix was awarded a contract from Vale Newfoundland & Labrador Ltd to supply, erect and operate two Concrete Batch Plants at the site of Vale’s Long Harbour Processing Plant.The two plants, capable of producing 100m3 per/hr combined total (with the primary plant capable of 80m3 per/hr. and secondary, or back-up, capable of 50m3 per/hr), produced 120,000m3 of concrete over a 27 month period. The plants are fully automated, winterized and totally independent of each other.

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