Immediately, IPS realized the job quite literally put them
between a rock and hard place.
“Since Queen Street is the main corridor for City Hospital,
it had to stay open for ambulance access,” said Cote. “Being
an infill project, we were confined between Queen Street
to the north, 2nd Avenue to the west, the brick wall of the
Saskatoon Construction Association building to the south
and an alley to the east.”
Access to the site was severely
restricted. Materials and equipment
had to be trucked in through the alley
with minimal disruption to the tenants
of a neighbouring building who parked
there. Cote said IPS did much of the
moving between midnight and 3 a.m.,
working a fair bit of overtime to keep
the project on schedule.
From late July until mid-November,
IPS was onsite at the Monarch Building,
working through several phases of
the job.
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Start of excavation, pile
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is gold in our business.”
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