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ATLANTIC CANADA
Atlantic Canada Construction News Briefs
Here are excerpts from news briefs
updated frequently at the
Atlantic Construction News website
(atlanticconstructionnews.com). NOVA SCOTIA
Eight-storey development
planned for Halifax's Spring
Garden Rd.
Construction of a new mixed-used
development on the former Winsbys
site on Halifax’s Spring Garden Rd.
should begin in the next two weeks,
says Westwood Developments Ltd.
president Danny Chedrawe.
The former Winsbys site was recently
demolished. According to Chedrawe,
the eight-level complex that will re-
place it will include three commercial
levels and five residential levels with
16 rental units.
He said the approval process was
lengthy and a required public benefit
component — because the develop-
ment is more than five storeys tall —
and still has to go before council.
Nova Scotia Lt. Gov. Architectural
Design Awards announced
The Nova Scotia Association of Ar-
chitects (NSAA) has recognized out-
standing design in the Lieutenant
Governor's 2013 Architectural Design
Awards There were 19 entries in the com-
petition. NSAA swards include:
• Lieutenant Governor’s Medal of
Excellence • JDA Architects (now Stantec Ar-
chitecture) - Wagmatcookewey
School • MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Archi-
tects Limited -Lean-To House
Award of Merit
• WHW Architects Inc - Charles P.
Allen High School, Bedford
• Abbott Brown Architects Incorpo-
rated - Dalhousie Human Re-
sources Offices
Citation • Omar Gandhi Architect - Black
Gables, Louisdale
• Lisa Tondino, Houdini Design –
Ritchie Gidney residence in Sandy
Cove, Nova Scotia.
Honourable mention
• GF Duffus & Company Ltd. - Hali-
fax City Hall – Stone masonry
restoration Jury members included: Christine
Macy, Dean of Dalhousie Faculty
of Architecture and
• Planning; George Cotaras, NSAA,
MRAIC/Fowler Bauld & Mitchell
Ltd.; and Jonathan Carmichael,
NSAA, MRAIC / S.P. Dumaresq Ar-
chitects Ltd.
Contractor turns industrial
building into $3.5 million
medical marijuana grow facility
Lindsay Construction has started
construction on Nova Scotia’s first
medical marijuana production facility,
reports The Chronicle Herald.
The company was awarded the
contract to renovate an old Stellarton
industrial building for Vida Cannabis
Inc. of Ontario.
The renovation of the more than
300,000-sq. ft. former Clairtone build-
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ing will be done in two phases, a Vida
Cannabis news release says.
The first phase, estimated at $3.5
million, includes design, engineering,
office space construction and security
systems installation, along with roof,
facade and entrance improvements.
Phase 2, estimated at $5 million, will
be the construction of the hydroponic
medical marijuana grow facility.
$20 million Marine Atlantic
Terminal construction underway
Construction of Marine Atlantic's
new ferry terminal is well underway
and on schedule, according to media
reports. The structural steel is up and the
floor and roof decks are presently
being installed.
Sydney-based Joneljim Construction carried out site
preparation and the new terminal is
being built by Roclan Construction,
also from Sydney. Rolcan is a division
of Dartmouth-based Dora Construc-
tion. The new terminal is expected to be
open and operational in the fiscal year
2015-16. The cost — including design,
site preparation and construction — is
estimated to be $20 million.
NEW BRUNSWICK
J.D. Irving $450 pulp mill
modernization construction
commences Construction work is currently un-
derway for the $450 million modern-
ization project at J.D. Irving Pulp and
Paper (JDI) in Saint John, New
Brunswick. The investment will involve a total