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Challenge
The client wanted to provide its employees with a comfortable housing
environment featuring top-quality amenities. The work site location
is remote and isolated, with extreme variances in temperature.
Solution
ATCO Structures designed and manufactured this comfortable 300
person, multi-story permanent operating camp in remote Northern
Quebec, in 360 days, to endure permafrost conditions and extreme
freezing temperatures (as cold as minus fifty Celsius).
Details
The site is located in Katinniq, Quebec (60 miles south of the
Arctic Ocean).
This 165,000 square foot award-winning building is complete
with spacious bedrooms, a restaurant-style kitchen and dining
area, library and lounge. The complex also includes a gymnasium
complete with an upper running track, bowling alley, hot and
cold pools and weight room.
Once the project was designed, the 305 modular units and 12 knock-down
units were manufactured in the Calgary, Alberta facility and
transported to Port of Montreal by barge, then transported to
the site and installed. This unique structure was built on twelve-foot
steel pile foundations to protect from permafrost. It was manufactured
to withstand extreme climate variances and keep the workers in
a warm and comfortable complex.
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