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CuStomer ShoWCASe: Minto Communities
Mingle & Jingle

Greenbelt Construction worked closely with Minto Communities in February and March to

complete a project for a new community development in Ottawa’s east end that had an important

environmental focus.

Working in combinaion with Minto, the City of With the added complicaion of March’s luctuaing

Otawa, and Atrel Engineering, the Greenbelt team led the temperatures and repeated thawing and freezing condiions, a
installaion of storm sewer outlets (pipes and manhole access number of producion days were lost to the weather. As usual,

points) for the new Mer Bleue development. Of primary though, the Greenbelt team stepped up and team members
importance to the site was a need to work around McKinnon’s willingly came in for two Saturdays in a row to make sure the

Creek, an exising waterway that required the team to look job met the ight deadline and delivered on quality as well.

for soluions that would minimize the project’s environmental
footprint, manage erosion, and preserve the ish habitat. This “It’s been a great experience working with the Greenbelt team

meant temporarily haling the creek in order to install pipes, on this project - it’s obvious that they really care about their
and had a ight deadline of March 15th to restore the creek’s work, and about doing a great job. Their commitment to the

water low. In addiion, the project was making use of large environment and to the quality of their work was excepional.”

1650mm sewer pipes. This presented it’s own unique set of - Jocelyn Peloquin, Project Manager, Minto Communiies
installaion requirements and challenges to overcome.

paul McCarney retires from oCa Board of Directors

The beneits of strong and open relaionships between the

buyer of construcion, the design professionals, and the build

team were a central theme of Paul’s term as Chairman in 2013
and 2014.

Paul oversaw the celebraion of the Associaion’s 125th
Anniversary in 2014, which included a complete makeover
BLACK CMYK
of the Associaion website and logo and the publishing of a
cofee-table book itled: “125 Years of Building Our City”.

Paul brought his passion

to assist community causes
and those less fortunate to

the Associaion. During his
tenure, he was the recipient of
Paul McCarney oicially reired from the OCA Board of
a CCA award for Philanthropy
Directors on February 18th, 2016 at the Associaion’s Annual
General Meeing following 10 years of service.
and will be remembered
always for raising the proile
Paul’s wealth of knowledge and experience of 30 years in
sewer/water contracing combined with his communicaion and of mental health and paving
the way for OCA to support
leadership skills cast him perfectly for the role of the Chairman
the Royal Otawa Campaign for
of the 1,150 member strong Otawa Construcion Associaion.
Mental Health.

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