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3 Note From the Executive

Secretary Treasurer
By Martyn Piper

5 Site Lines
News and views from
around the region

FEATURES

10 Meeting of the Millwrights

Alberta’s finest were on the internat-
ional stage at this year’s Canada-wide
conference
By Ryan Smith

12 Project Profile
South Health Campus
The fifth largest hospital in North
America is going up in Calgary and
ARCCAW members are taking part
By Tricia Radison
17
17 No Train, No Gain
Two greenhorn scaffolding appren-
tices are among those reaching new
heights thanks to some hands-on
20
experience
By Jim Veenbaas

20 KidZone
Games, quizzes and more
By Tricia Radison

COLUMNS

23 Trust Fund
Manager’s Report
By Maureen C. Gander

25 Training and
Apprenticeship Report
By Len J. Bryden

27 Millwrights
Local 1460 Report 12
By Bob Hugh
ON THE COVER
29 Training + Events The lay of the land at Calgary’s rapidly
rising South Health Campus.
31 Parting Shot Photographed by Joey Podlubny

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o ften, members ask how they might help the union by way
of organizing or other collective efforts. In response,
there is something everyone can do, for themselves, their
families and this union. It is the same old, same old: go to work
every day, be on time, stay on the job until quitting time, and be
Charles Burke
AssistAnt Art director
productive and free of drugs and alcohol while on shift. It seems
Rodrigo López Orozco that all I do lately is attend meetings with owners and contractors
Production mAnAger who are quick to argue they can get the same product only cheaper
Vanlee Robblee from the dark side. The damage to our union’s reputation may be
Production coordinAtor
Betty-Lou Smith irreparable if we don’t change our behaviour.
Here’s an analogy: You want to buy a motorbike. You want the
contributing Writers best and you don’t mind paying more for quality and reliability.
Lindsey Norris, Tricia Radison, Choosing what labour force to use is no different. Yes, union work-
Ryan Smith, Jim Veenbaas
contributing PhotogrAPhers
ers cost more, but we promise to provide better quality and reli-
Buffy Goodman, Joey Podlubny ability. We are not living up to our promise. Consider these stats
Vice-President, sAles from the Shell Scotford project: absenteeism among scaffolders
Anita McGillis is eight per cent and six per cent among carpenters. Turnover is
AdVertising rePresentAtiVe horrible and, on any given day, hundreds of employees are waiting
Tara Kochan
sAles AssistAnt
at the gate well before quitting time. I, for one, would be furious if
Stefanie Jackson I paid someone an hourly rate to work on my house and he or she
quit 30 minutes early each day.
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the majority of you who go to work every day and provide supe-
Important Phone Numbers
rior performance should also be very concerned. I know I am. I am
afraid of losing the next job, afraid the competition is eroding our
Edmonton 780-471-3200 markets, afraid we have accepted these behaviours as norms.
Fort McMurray 780-743-1442 It is time to take aggressive action. Recently, the general
Calgary 403-283-0747
Carpenters Training Centre 780-455-6532 president visited to tell me in no uncertain terms to control this
Carpenters Health and Welfare 780-477-9131 situation before it is too late. Owners and contractors are calling
Carpenters Pension 780-477-9131 him to tell him that we must police our members – or else.
Industrial Workers 403-283-0747
Millwright Local 1460 780-430-1460 He has provided directives and left me to carry them out.
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 Executive Secretary Treasurer’s
continued from page 3
There are no specifics as we go to print,
but expect real action in the near future.
I ask you if you are a member soiling
this union’s reputation to either change
to become the union member you com-
mitted to be when you joined, or simply
pack your bags and go. Our collective
future hangs in the balance!
The Work Picture
Notwithstanding the beginning of my
message, the work picture is strong.
Still, it’s slim pickings if we take the
Shell Scotford and Keephills projects out
of the picture. The Building Trades of
Alberta have secured a labour agreement
for the Kearl Lake Project. However, it
will be a managed open site and will not
require the manpower associated with
other large sites.
We’re working hard to secure the little
bit of work expected in modular con-
struction. One only has to visit the mod-
ule sites in Edmonton to see how little
activity there is, so we will be sharpening
our pencils and working with our con-
tractors to make sure that as much work
as possible will come our way.
Next spring, we will likely see an
unparalleled shutdown season in the
north. Predictions suggest that 10,000
to 12,000 tradespeople will be required.
Plans are in the works to import tem-
porary foreign workers on short notice
to ensure the outages are fully staffed
and kept on schedule. The protocol, as
always, will be Alberta workers first,
Canada second and then, in our case,
U.S. members (and further afield, if nec-
essary). There are concerns about skilled
scaffolders, the International is aware
of the situation and intends to send
key training personnel here to identify
how best to ramp up scaffold training
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REPORT
throughout North America. (Apologies
to the Brothers and Sisters from Sarnia,
with respect to my comments in the last
issue of Hard Hat. I did not mean to single
them out and denigrate their recognized
scaffolding skills and ability. We are glad
they are here.)
Kudos to the scaffolders and carpen-
ters keeping Calgary ticking, working
on the skylight project at TD Square and
scaffolding the new EnCana tower, the
Bow, which demonstrates a high degree
of visibility to the public. Along with
the commercial projects, our market
share is growing. We continue to shine
down in Empress and Burstall, and Sean
Watkinson has had some success and is
fighting hard to resurrect a tough market
in the Red Deer area.
Bits and Bites
We continue to monitor our shop situa-
tion for 2010. It’s a laborious process with
many highs and lows, but we are cau-
tiously waiting to put our laid-off mem-
bers back to work. With a well-managed
and financed executive and local, they
deserve to be back where they were 18
months ago.
Finally, delegates to the Regional
Council have instructed me to start
implementing the Rapid Site Access
Protocol (RSAP), so I will roll that pro-
gram out in the near future at Local 1325
and 2103 meetings. I have also begun
discussions to amend the collective
agreement to allow pensioners in the
Carpenter Plan who are 60 or older and
collecting a full pension to receive the
contribution on their paycheque.
I trust the summer provided some time
for you and your family and the winter
will allow for continued work activity.
Cheers.
Site Lines A roundup of news and notes from
around the region

Guess the Tool

Which trade was the first to use these
antique tools?

Social Club Answer on page 9

The fourth annual

Millwrights Retirees’
Social was held on
June 2 at Our Lady of
Perpetual Help Parish
Hall in Sherwood Park.
Once again we were hon-
oured to have two char-
ter members, Bill Bilida
and Herb Huber attend.
Other special guests
included Ursula Buller,
Lothar Sterzik, Bernie
Filpowicz, Tom Murray
and Ed Rogalski. Special
thanks to Guy and Pat
Dunand for organizing
such a successful event.
– Bob Hugh, Local 1460

From left: ARCCAW members Scott Beaulieu, Greg Wall and
Sean Watkinson, joined by Wall’s family, protest the decertifi-
cation of Quinn Construction.
Leadership Lessons
from New Brunswick
The United Brotherhood’s Canadian Leadership
Conference back in June might have taken place in the port city of
St. John, New Brunswick, but the focus was on Alberta. Leaders
of affiliated councils throughout Canada gathered to dis-
cuss organizing, pensions, political action and green build-
ing, among other issues. ARCCAW’s Executive Secretary
Treasurer Martyn Piper attended the conference.
“A big part was about working together from coast-
to-coast to the benefit of union members across
Canada. For Alberta, it’s especially important
that we work with other areas. Right now
Alberta is a hotspot for construction, but
it might not always be that way, so it’s
important to forge strong relationships
with groups so they’ll be there when
the shoe is on the other foot.”

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The New Steward’s Pocket Manual
There’s more to the guide than just an added apostrophe
Over 20 years ago, the first Stewards Pocket Manual was published to help stewards of the UBC fulfill their
roles. Now the manual has undergone a redesign, and while the principles of good stewardship are timeless,
the guide contains a few notable changes that bring it into the 21st century.
Old Manual
Length: 33 pages
Font: Franklin Gothic
Appendix: Important phone numbers
Opening message: “[You are] the front line
of representation for our Brotherhood on
the job.”
Emphasized job duty: “If non-union label
parts arrive on the job site, the steward should
find out… all relevant details about the instal-
lation and convey this vital information to the
business representative.”
Legalities: Some things never change, includ-
ing the complexities surrounding workers’
rights to refuse unsafe work, which varied by
province.
6 HARDHAT FALL 2009
New Manual
Length: 39 pages
Font: Helvetica
Appendix: Useful websites
Opening message: “It is imperative that…
you model the very best of behaviours
expected of a UBC member.”
Emphasized job duty: “The steward is the
most outspoken critic of shoddy work-
manship and frivolous conflicts, all of
which hurt the competitiveness of union
contractors.”
Legalities: As legislation has become
more specific, so has the manual; members
are now directed to consult Occupational
Health and Safety legislation before refus-
ing work.
Stampede
Festivities
Carpenters, you make good pancakes
Local 2103 hosted another successful
pancake breakfast at the Stampede
in July. Held on the second Saturday of
the Stampede, about 30 people, from
executives to rank-and-file members,
put down their hammers and broke out
the spatulas to serve pancakes, sausages
and coffee to over 600 members of the
community. Hughie Bruce, an instructor
at the Calgary Training Centre, brought
his country band Preferred Guest to
entertain the crowd (on a stage of scaf-
folding, of course). Three representatives
from the community also stopped by:
Miss Teen Alberta, Miss Earth Calgary
and Miss Sun and Salsa flipped a few pan-
cakes of their own.
Meanwhile, the parade float built by
the Building Trades of Alberta was pre-
paring to embark on its provincial tour.
The float won two awards in Calgary
(first for a non-profit organization and
celebrity choice) before garnering fur-
ther awards at parades in Edmonton,
Red Deer, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge.
Race to the Finish Line
Scaffolders jump to action when Indy
comes to town
How do you turn an airport runway into an Indy racecourse? You build seats. • A month and a half before the July 23-
Since 1995, Ron Solvey (currently with Tower Scaffold Services Inc.) has been start, 30 scaffolders, from journeymen to
involved with the construction of the temporary grandstands and luxury apprentices, as well as a few carpenters,
suites for the Rexall Edmonton Indy. “Time restrictions and weather are reported for duty at the Edmonton City
the biggest challenges in this project,” he says. While praying for clear Centre Airport.
skies (working on top of slippery aluminum is beyond a nuisance), • The grandstands have a steel structure
workers from Local 1325 provide the bulk of the manpower to and aluminum benches for seats. The
make the space as habitable for humans as it is for race cars. materials weigh about 1.5 million pounds.
Here’s how it works. • Design is everything. The 3.2-kilometre
course has 14-turns and the grandstands
must be placed at key spots: overlooking
pit road, turn 1, turn 2 and between turns
12 and 13.
• The four grandstands seat up to
28,000 people.
• The largest luxury suite is about 85- by
1,000-feet long and sits 20 feet in the air
over Pit Row. Another views turn 13. The
other trades rely on the scaffolders to
finish on time so they can erect tents and
finish the course.
• The event ends on Sunday, and shortly
after, the scaffolding crew returns to
spend the next month taking down the
seats so it can be shipped to eastern
Canada for use in the next event.

9th Annual Barrie Regan Golf Tournament

About 150 golfers from across Alberta hit the links
at the Legends Golf and Country Club in Sherwood
Park on July 17 to raise money for diabetes research.
The event, which was renamed two years ago after the
tireless worker and union enthusiast Barrie Regan,
garnered over $5,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes
Research Foundation. As one of the ARCCAW’s larg-
est charity events of the year, members, contractors,
owners and other people with a relationship with
the union attend. Green fees, hole sponsorships and
holes-in-one all generate money to go towards diabe-
tes research. Congratulations to the three winners:
Brad Carew, Gary Carew and Mike Dunlop, and a
hearty thanks to the legion of volunteers who helped
from left: Sonny Maghoo, Ewald Hert, Brian Konno and Mike Board
make the event happen.

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Making the Cut
From Edmonton to Halifax, ARCCAW vied with the
best across Canada at these events

In April, the Alberta Carpenters Training Centre in Edmonton

hosted the local carpentry competition that was part of Skills
Canada’s Regional Skills Competition. Sixteen high school stu-
dents who are interested in a career in carpentry came out
and carpentry instructor Wilf Pipke, of the Alberta Carpenters
Training Fund, was among the judges.
Then, in July, 12 ARCCAW carpenters and scaffolders com-
peted at the UBC’s Alberta Provincial Apprenticeship Contest,
which had a Scaffolder Games component. Five carpenter
contestants and six scaffolders competed in teams of three.

And the ARCCAW winners were…

Carpentry
First Place: Philip Waters (who went on win first place at the
National Apprenticeship Contest; see page 25 for more details)
Second Place: Aaron Dyck
Third Place: Murray Kostashen
Carpenters Orrin Little and Jacqueline Lega also competed.
Scaffolding
First Place: Franc Potocnik, Jr., Heath Kai and Amy Johnsey
Scaffolders Edward Bunce, Michael Pawluk and
Zyne Najmeddine also competed.

From left: Thomas Gwilliam (bronze), Derek Kuraliak (silver),

Luke Andrukiewicz (gold) and Desiree Skubleny (bronze).

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 Expansive
Mood

The Epcor/TransAlta Keephills expansion

is about 70 kilometres west of Edmonton.
The Keephills 3 project will add a third gen-
erating unit to the existing power plant.
When one unit is shut down for mainte-
nance, two others will keep the facility hum-
ming. Unlike the two existing generators
on the site, the third generating unit will
operate in its own building, meaning more
trades are required – from pipefitters to
boilermakers to electricians and sheet metal
workers. The new Bag house (essentially
an industrial dust collector) is assembled
in sections; scaffolding offers temporary
access. Carpenters preparing the internal
Answer to “Guess the Tool” slab in the circular lime silo are using the
(from page 5) PERI Rundflex form system to simplify the
A wheelwright used this spoke pointer (right) and tenon cutter (left). concrete-pouring process.

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Alberta’s finest were on the international stage at this year’s
Canada-wide conference, held in Edmonton
D oug Banes has packed a lot into his 40-year career
as a millwright. Banes, the general vice president of
the United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC), was
instrumental in developing the UBC’s Carpenters
International Training Center, which is set on a 12-acre campus
in southern Las Vegas, that contains a dormitory and features
60,000 square feet of shop space offering courses in the lat-
est craft and union-building skills. But when Banes visited the
Alberta Millwright Training Centre in Edmonton last July, the
large, contemporary hydrogen compressor in the middle of the
shop – a $5 million gift from Petro-Canada in 2008 – stopped him
in his tracks.
Banes craned his neck and surveyed the rest of the tidy shop,
which included a dozen or so local millwrights quietly training on
the equipment. “This is more than impressive,” he said, nodding,
before his eyes shifted back to the compressor. “We don’t have a
compressor as modern as this [at the Las Vegas training facility].
10 HARDHAT FALL 2009
FROM LEFT: Bob Hugh, Doug Banes,
Bill Irwin and Jim Smith
We’ve got some small stuff, but nothing at all like this.”
Banes wasn’t the only one with wide eyes at the Alberta train-
ing facility. “This training facility is truly awesome. To have an
owner like Petro-Canada make a donation like this, you’ve got
to recognize that there is something very worthwhile going on
here,” said Michel Sinclair, business manager of Millwright Local
1007, in Niagara Falls.
Banes and Sinclair were in Alberta July 13 to 15 for the
Canada-wide Millwright Conference, which included more
than 25 millwright representatives from across Canada. Banes
and Bill Irwin, director of UBC’s Las Vegas training centre,
joined the proceedings.
Conference organizer Bob Hugh said the event provided the
opportunity to showcase Alberta’s new training facility, and it
allowed the millwright leaders to develop strategies to overcome
barriers to achieve their shared goals.
“The whole theme of this conference was to share information
and create opportunities so that if we have something in Alberta
that we could offer the other provinces, we’d make it happen,
and they would do the same for us. I think we definitely achieved
that goal,” said Hugh, senior business representative for Alberta
Millwright Local 1460.
The three main issues for conference participants were
mobility, training and marketing. Here’s a run-down of what
was discussed.
Mobility
Different laws in different provinces make it difficult for work-
ers to follow job opportunities across borders. “The industry has
changed. It’s now an industry of mega-projects, and the challenge
is to figure out how we can get millwrights from other parts of the
country to come and assist the areas where the mega-projects are
happening. This is important because we have to be able to get
our highly-skilled and trained millwrights to different parts of
the country at a moment’s notice,” said James E. Smith, UBC Vice
President Canada, who is based in Ontario.
The main barrier to inter-provincial hiring is administering
benefit and pension payments. “Let’s say a worker goes to Alberta
from British Columbia and works there for three months. Well,
when he finishes he doesn’t always get his benefits put back into
his own plan in B.C., and it’s not because anyone is holding out
on him, it’s because of the difficulties with the way the different
systems are set up, and we need to iron that out,” Michel Sinclair
added.
Another issue is pre-access drug testing. British Columbia and
Alberta are the only provinces that require drug testing before a
worker can start a job. This is a problem when workers from out-
side of British Columbia and Alberta arrive at these provinces,
and, unaware that they need to be tested before they can begin
working, they take the required drug test and then have to wait
weeks to receive results. “We want them to arrive and get to work
right away. We don’t want them waiting around for weeks in a
hotel room. They are there to work,” Hugh said. “We’re taking
steps at this conference to make sure it is a smooth, fluent process
for everyone.”
Training
Another big issue for millwrights is ensuring that workers from
all provinces are trained to the same high standards. To address
this concern, the Alberta local supports the Red Seal Program, an
inter-provincial standard of excellence. “The program makes it
simple,” Hugh explains. “If a worker has obtained the Red Seal,
he or she has been trained to specific safety and quality standards.
We’re advocating for this program to be recognized across all
jurisdictions.”
Streamlining training standards is one of the highest priorities in
the industry. “Part of what we’re doing [at this conference] is to dis-
cuss our training needs and try to develop uniform programs and
standards,” said Claude Gagnon, business manager for Millwright
Local 2182 in Montreal. “An eighth of an inch in Alberta is an eighth
of an inch in Quebec. In most cases, the machines are the same, the
work is the same, and the training can be the same, too.”
INSPECTION: The group tours the Alberta Millwright
Training Centre
Doug Banes, who also chairs the UBC’s International Millwright
Committee, would like to see more millwrights in Canada take
advantage of the Las Vegas training centre, for which almost all
costs are already covered. “We’ve got a $100-million facility that’s
owned by the union, and it’s a great opportunity for workers to
train on the best equipment in task oriented programs,” he said.
Hanes added that the training goes beyond the technical
aspects of the job.
“We try to instill in the workers the importance of maintaining
a professional attitude. I don’t care how skilled you are, if you don’t
have the right attitude, it’s not going to work,” he said. “When
workers come to Las Vegas, we strive to make sure they get the
sort of training that helps them to become the best workers they
can be in every way.”
Marketing
The millwrights at the 2009 conference felt they were making
progress in many areas, but they also thought they still had work
to do to let people know of the strides they’ve made. “Our world-
class training facilities and programs, and everything else that
we offer, shouldn’t be a best-kept secret,” Banes said. “One of our
strategies to achieve this is to invite contractors and owners to our
training facilities and show them what we do. We want to do this
more and more, because whenever we do it, it wins every time.”
Marketing and promoting of Millwrights also involves letting con-
tractors and owners know that managers at training facilities are
constantly seeking feedback in order to create new training pro-
grams and improve how they train workers. “We’re trying to be
leaders in the field, and in order to do that we need to tackle issues
head on. When we do that, we not only benefit our workers, but we
also benefit the contractors and owners,” said Bob Hugh of Local
1460. “The trick, of course, is to let everyone know what you’re
doing, so that everyone can enjoy the full benefits.”
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Project PROFILE

South
Health
Campus
The fifth largest hospital in North America
is going up in Calgary and ARCCAW
members are a key part of the build

By TRICIA RADISON
Photography by JOEY PODLUBNY

12 HARDHAT FALL 2009

J ust past the southernmost Calgary community on
Highway 2, gigantic tower cranes, scores of workers and
an ever-expanding concrete structure dominate the
landscape. This is the beginning of the South Health Campus
slowly rising on a 44-acre site surrounded by farmland.
On schedule and ahead of budget – construction manager
EllisDon says tenders are at or below pre-tender estimates
and the project is benefiting from the downturn in market
conditions – the South Health Campus is being built in three or
more phases. The $1.4-billion first phase will be completed in
December 2011.

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Costs for the other two phases have not yet been calculated as
the full spectrum of services included has not been finalized and
the province has not yet given funding approval. “Alberta Health
Services are currently in a provincial restructuring process and are
also determining the optimal delivery of health services provincial-
ly. This and the current economic situation will be determinants on
when funding for the next phases is provided by the government,”
says South Health Campus project executive director Ken Chiang.
When Phase 1 opens, 293 new beds will be added to the city with
another 351 coming online at full build. The campus is designed to
provide leading-edge healthcare, technology, research and education
in a best-practice environment.
Using EllisDon to manage construction was another way for the
health region to stay on the leading edge. “They are an excellent con-
struction management firm with experience in major health care
projects,” says Chiang. EllisDon has completed numerous medical
projects in Calgary, including the Alberta Children’s Hospital.
“A hospital is one of the most complex projects because of all the
life safety systems,” explains Scott Thompson, project director at
EllisDon. Between 30 and 40 systems – including fire alarms, securi-
ty systems and UPS power – must be installed and work together. As
construction manager, it is EllisDon’s job to ensure everything works
as it should before patients are in the building.
14 HARDHAT FALL 2009
This hospital has its own specific challenges too, such as the loca-
tion in the deep south of Calgary, at Deerfoot Trail and 196 Ave SE.
“The biggest challenge for us was getting people there because buses
and trains don’t go that far,” says Mike Cooper, the ARCCAW business
agent organizer looking after the EllisDon file.
An EllisDon bus transports workers between the last bus stop and
the job site. Transport time lengthens the workday but the chance to
get three or four years of steady work makes the longer hours worth it
for many, says Cooper.
Building in the Dark
The South Health Campus is much bigger than most hospitals, with
155,000 square metres under construction in Phase 1. “Phase 1 of
the South Health Campus is roughly twice the size of the Alberta
Children’s Hospital,” says Thompson, adding that the size is a chal-
lenge, even for an experienced contractor.
“The design and schedule of this project requires a large team.
There are over 100 architects and engineers working on it,” says
Thompson. The construction schedule and strategy means design is
still underway. For example, while the construction team is current-
ly working on interiors for the Intensive Care Unit and Emergency,
the design team is working on the final design and documents for
the fifth floor. “We’re trying to build the campus and we don’t have
the complete design, so we need to use new construction contracting
strategies to enable us to engage subcontractors as early as possible,”
Thompson explains.

Big Birds
Big jobs demand big equipment. EllisDon brought in four of the largest
tower cranes in North America from Germany. At 282 feet in length, the
Peiner SK575 cranes can pick up 9,000 pounds on the end of the boom.

Going for Gold

The South Health Campus is a Gold Seal-certified project. “All our proj-
ect managers, superintendents, estimators, everyone from the general
contractor down to the rebar sub, have to be certified,” explains Scott
Thompson. “When I tender a job, that subtrade has to have people avail-
able for this project.” The Canadian Construction Association gives
certification based on education, work experience and knowledge. The
South Health Campus is the first major project in the province where
the owner is also Gold Seal-certified.

Innovation at Work
The Deflection Compensating System is a unique concrete forming sys-
tem designed in Germany by Peri Formwork Systems, Inc. in partner-
ship with EllisDon.

ABOVE: Carpenters Michael Burley and apprentice carpenter Trevor Dempsey

BOTTOM LEFT: Peri’s column system, the first in North America, is lifted
into place.
BOTTOM RIGHT: EllisDon brought in four of the largest tower cranes from
Germany to do heavy lifting.

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It eliminates the need for reshoring and allows one structural slab
level to be completed every eight weeks instead of every 16 weeks.
Tested in the factory but never before used in production, the
system was shipped in 58 boxcars to the hospital site and came com-
plete with a team of German engineers. In spite of the language bar-
rier and an unexpected modification to the ground floor plan, the
Canadian crew quickly learned to use the new system and is now on
target to finish the eighth and final structural slab level by the end of
November 2009.
At the end of August 2009, about 125,000 cubic metres of con-
crete had been poured; the entire project will use about 200,000
cubic metres. An on-site plant capable of producing 22 truckloads of
concrete each hour keeps the concrete flowing.
“It’s been very exciting for everyone,” says Al Skalicky, a Peri
sales rep who’s been working with EllisDon on the system since the
construction management company first came up with the idea.
“The 57 tables are all run hydraulically so there are no legs down to
the floor and it’s almost like a space-age type system. For these guys
to actually build it and see it for the first time, and that it actually
worked, was quite a feat.”
Why was the South Health Campus a good project to test out the
system? “It’s big and we were in early,” says Thompson. Early involve-
ment meant the structural engineers could design what EllisDon’s
Sam Poskovich, project superintendent, calls typical floor plates.
With columns, beam widths and a grid system exactly the same on
every floor, the concrete forming system has worked well, reducing
manpower by an estimated 30 to 40 per cent.
Well, every floor except one. A change to the main floor dropped
the slab, making it a challenge. The team worked together to adjust to
the situation as quickly as possible and stayed on schedule.

LEFT TO RIGHT: Roof top core crew Preston Hickey, Mark Curtis,
Eric Macdonald
Building a Team
This summer, 530 people were hard at work on the site, including 120
carpenters and 100 labourers. At peak, expected to happen in spring
2010, that number will skyrocket to 1,200 and include 300 electricians
and 300 mechanical trades. “This is the biggest commercial project in
Calgary,” says Cooper. “Even the Bow isn’t as big.”
EllisDon oversees the entire project, including handling Leadership
in Energy and Environmental Design requirements – the owner is
going for LEED Silver – as well as arranging for equipment and inte-
grating the numerous systems.
Owner: Alberta Health Services and Government of Alberta
Prime consultant: Kasian Architecture
Subconsultants: RJC / Stantec, structural engineers; Wiebe Forest,
mechanical engineers; Stebnicki / Wiebe Forest, electrical engineers
Mechanical construction manager: Lockerbie & Hole
Electrical construction manager: Trotter & Morton
Exterior envelope construction manager: Ferguson Glass /
Pockar Masonry

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 Greenhorn scaffolding
apprentices reach
new heights thanks By Jim Veenbaas
to some hands-on
experience
By Jim Veenbaas Photography by bUFFY GOODman
m
elissa belliveau knows how lucky she is.
She moved to Alberta from Nova Scotia two years
ago and has been working ever since. Belliveau,
who is 20 years old, is a newly minted scaffolder
who just completed her Level 2 Scaffolding certification at the
Alberta Carpenters Training Centre (ACTC) in Edmonton. It has
become a truism among those entering the workforce for the first
time that to get a job you need experience, yet you need a job to
get that experience.
Fortunately, grads like Belliveau credit hands-on experience
for helping them find work. “Building a scaffold is a big responsi-
bility… and employers know that. A lot of places want people with
experience and skills and you need that training just to get in the
door. My training helped me get on with Steeplejack [Industrial
Group] in Fort McMurray,” she says. “The non-union guys don’t
have the same training we do. They basically learn from their
supervisors and many of them don’t have the same experience as
the instructors at the training centre,” adds Belliveau, who has
worked on scaffolds up to 35 storeys high.
Developed by the Regional Council of Carpenters and Allied
Workers, the scaffolding course is the only stand-alone one of
UPWaRDLY mObiLe: Melissa Belliveau
plans to keep on upgrading her job skills
its kind in Alberta. More than 3,000 students have completed
the scaffolding program in the last decade, learning the theory
behind the trade and practicing assembling and dismantling dif-
ferent types of scaffolding systems.
This matters now more than ever, as Alberta’s unemployment
rate, for instance, soared to 7.4 per cent in August. The training
centre’s specialized courses, not just for scaffolders but for other
trades, also give union members a tremendous advantage in a
tight labour market when more workers are competing for fewer
and fewer jobs.
Down the road, when the industry picks up, grads will be bet-
ter positioned than ever. “We have the highest standards and the
strictest measurement tolerances in Canada and North America,
and we are leading the effort to standardize the training,” says
Pekarchik. “We had some NAIT instructors visit our program
and they were blown away. They have known for years that we are
the experts at scaffolding, but they were surprised at how well set
up we are.”
Although demand for trades has dampened during the last 18
months, it is expected to spike sharply in the future as oilsands
projects ramp up and boomers retire from the trades. In Fort
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 TOUGH JUDGE: Instructor George
Pekarchik grades students to a
tolerance of 1/8 of an inch

Ticket to Success
Tuition at post-secondary institutions is
one barrier for many new tradespeople.
Fortunately, not only does ACTC training
make new union members more employ-
able, it also means they start their careers
without a pile of debt. “As a member, you
can start your carpentry career for virtually
no cost,” says scaffolding instructor George
Pekarchik. “The books are given to you; the
tools are there. We have a lot of courses that
only cost our members $10.” Similar training
programs at community colleges, Pekarchik
adds, can cost 50 times that much.
GOOD NEWS: Scaffold student
Kent Tamarik gets his test results
McMurray alone, an estimated 32,000 construction workers
will be needed by 2016, which is more than the number work-
ing during the height of the boom in 2008. “There’s going to be a
tremendous demand for skilled people. The older guys are start-
ing to retire or go into management and we have to fill the hole,”
says Len Bryden, director of training and apprenticeship for the
Alberta Carpenters Training Fund, which works in conjunction
with ARCCAW. To meet that demand, courses are constantly
being added in Edmonton, Calgary and Fort McMurray. (Visit
www.abcarptc.ab.ca for more information and for a complete
schedule of upcoming courses.)
Indeed, since opening the $23-million training facility in the
fall of 2008 (see the spring 2009 issue of Hard Hat for a full
profile on the ACTC), the union has introduced period 1 and
period 2 Carpentry, along with an increasing number of new pro-
grams such as a Hoisting and Rigging course. There is also a wide
range of supplemental programs that teach members everything
from blueprint reading and construction surveying to arc weld-
ing and stair construction available on demand.
These new courses are part of an initiative for new carpen-
ters, millwrights and other trades that stretches back at least
a decade. To help its newest and least experienced members
get their start in the industry, ARCCAW started an Industrial
Technical Training (ITT) program about 6 years ago to teach

18 HARDHAT FALL 2009

 PRESSURE’S ON: Kent Tamarik works
to complete the Level One scaffold test

TRAINING BY THE NUMBERS

Since 1998, scores of future carpenters,

millwrights, scaffolders and other trades
have earned their stripes through the
Alberta Carpenters Training Centre.
Here’s a breakdown.

6,016: Number of members trained in

scaffolding ARCCAW shops and facili-
ties from 1998 to 2009

957: Number of members completing

Industrial Technical Training between
2002 and 2009

102: Number of members completing

GO GREEN the ACTC’s Pre-Employment Carpentry
program since 2006 in Alberta
The eco-sector opens up new jobs for skilled trades
Skilled trades may be at the forefront of the green jobs sector, which at 9.1 per cent growth 742: Number of carpenters who
per year over the past 10 years has expanded twice as quickly as other job sectors in Canada. received tuition reimbursements
Thanks to more green energy and construction projects, skilled trades will find positions on, for between 2002 and 2009
instance, retrofits, wind-turbine farms and transit projects. “It definitely increases the job pros-
pects for people in the skilled trades,” Shaun Thorseon of Skills Canada told the Calgary Herald 33,477: Total number who have taken
recently, explaining that “a lot of the skills they’re acquiring in the current process of apprentice- part in approved training programs or
ship programs…. are definitely transferable to some of the things that are on the horizon.” courses and have either paid a $10 reg-
istration fee, received the training at no
inexperienced workers the basics of carpentry and scaffolding. The program has cost, or have been reimbursed between
been wildly successful. “At the time we started the program, contractors had 1998 and mid-2009 by the Alberta
created a labour shortage by not hiring first-year apprentices,” Pekarchik recalls. Carpenters training fund
“We had more than a thousand first-years looking for work. We knew that in a few
years they would become journeymen, but they needed the hours to move on. We 656*: Estimated training for 2009 for
started talking to contractors, developed this program and now they are hiring combined Scaffolding, Pre-Employment
apprentices like crazy.” Carpentry (Tradewinds to Success
Back on the shop floor, Phil Millburn is a testament to that success. Like Belliveau, Aboriginal Initiative), Alberta Industry
he benefited from specialized courses, completing his Level 1 Scaffolding this July. Training (AIT) Accredited Period One
Now he’s working at the Shell Scotsford refinery in Fort Saskatchewan. “As an Carpentry, Industrial Technical training
apprentice, trying to get out there and get a job is the biggest challenge, but it’s a lot (ITT), and Scaffold JM Upgrade
easier to find work once you go to school,” says Millburn. “The scaffolding program *For in-house training between January
helped me smooth out the rough edges and gave me confidence. It makes every day at to December 2009.
the job site a lot easier.”

HARDHAT FALL 2009 19

 KidZone Quizzes and fun stuff

Hammer
Slammer
Think any old one will work? No way!

Every tradesperson has his or her special tools, and

hammers are one of the oldest tools around – going back
more than 30,000 years. See if you can match these 100-
year-old hammers to the jobs they were made to do.

I
M
G J N
C K
F H L
D E
A
B

Shoemaker’s hammer Blacksmith’s hammer

Millwright’s ball peen hammer Watchmaker’s hammer

Gardener’s hammer Cooper’s hammer

Saw doctor’s dog head hammer Tinsmith’s riveting hammer

Ferrier’s horseshoe turning hammer Roofer’s slate hammer

A, I, M, G, K, F, N
H, E, J, L, C, D, B Carpenter’s double claw hammer Ferrier’s horseshoe nailing hammer
(from top of list to bottom)
Answers: Coachmaker’s hammer Floor layer’s tack hammer

20 HARDHAT FALL 2009

 Guess
the Tool
Tools have changed a lot in the last 100 years. Check these
out and then use the internet to see what these tools look
like today.
This weird contraption (below) might look like some-
thing out of a mad scientist’s laboratory, but it’s actually
an old-fashioned plane. Carpenters use planes to smooth
and shape wood.
You won’t find planes like the antique one (below) on a
construction site today, but you will find tools that do
the same job. Carpenters and anybody else who wants
to make sure something is smooth and finished will use
this type of plane.
Bob the
Builder
Who’s the most famous tradesperson today? It might
be Bob the Builder. Bob and his crew have been building
roads, skyscrapers and more since 1998. According to
bobthebuilder.com, the show is aired in 45 languages
and is watched by kids around the world.
The Burj Dubai in the city of Dubai will be the tallest
building in the world when it is finished this year. It
will stand more than 800 metres (2,600 feet) high
and will have the world’s fastest elevators. The con-
crete used in the tower weighs as much as 100,000
elephants! In fact, you’ll be able to see its spire from
95 kilometres away!
There’s another project in our own back yards. Right
now, the Bow is being built in downtown Calgary. When
it’s done, it will be 58 storeys and 236 metres (775
feet) tall. That makes it the tallest office building in west-
ern Canada! The Bow will be made with 48,000 tons of
structural steel, almost the weight of just 5 elephants.
HARDHAT FALL 2009 21
 Trust Fund Manager’s
The People Behind
the Scenes
I
t’s hard to believe that fall is here.
I hope everyone had a great summer. At
the Trust Funds, each of us has enjoyed a
little vacation time to catch some of the sunny
weather. That said, it was a busy summer.
New Health & Welfare Booklet
This fall, members of the Health & Welfare
Plan will receive our new 2009 booklet
describing topics like what the Plan provides,
who’s eligible and how to make a claim. The
Plan office and each union office (Calgary;
Edmonton; Fort McMurray) have copies.
Trust Funds Staff Overview
Many staff members have been with us for
some time, and we recently welcomed new
faces. Here is an overview:
The Trust Funds office has four areas:
Health & Welfare, Pension, Accounting and
Management. Each department has a team
leader. Bette Thompson, our senior claims
officer, heads Health & Welfare with over
28 years service. Bette’s team includes four
regular staff. Kathy Germaine and Jenny Van
Gelderen are claims representatives. They
help members at our counter and on the phone
with benefit questions and claims. Michelle
Perrot and Emily Carr are claims assistants
who maintain files through the claims pay-
ment process. Together the team processed
over 28,000 claims in 2008. And, this spring,
we celebrated Kathy’s fifth anniversary.
REPORT
Maureen C. Gander, CEBS,
CHRP Manager
Mary McGillivray is the supervisor of Pension Services with over 12
years service. Jason Fleury and Terry McCann are pension services rep-
resentatives, each with three years service. The Pension team answers
member questions, and calculates and processes pension payments for
retirees, terminating members and survivors of deceased members.
They also prepare and distribute the members’ Annual Statements –
over 8,800 this spring!
In June, our accounting department welcomed Accounting
Supervisor Bryanna McKay. She has over a decade of financial experience
and is pursuing her designation as a certified general accountant. Her
team works with participating employers to ensure contributions under
the Collective Agreement are received and the corresponding hours are
reported to the Pension and Health & Welfare departments. They also
process training and working dues for the Training Centre and Regional
Council. Last year, we handled over $118 million of contributions.
That leaves our management group. We take care of the needs of
trustees, the Funds’ records, contracts and investment reporting. The
Funds have grown extensively over the last several years. Deborah
Sheppard, senior admin assistant helps keep trustees informed of key
reports received at our office. In June, we welcomed Liz Lombardo as
a pension and benefit specialist. The Plans involve a huge bank of for-
mal documents and Liz’s assignments include working with our legal
counsel to update our documents as part of the Trustees’ ongoing gov-
ernance. Liz is also on our system project team and gaining exposure to
all other aspects of the Plans.
These are simplified descriptions so in an upcoming column I’ll elab-
orate on them and on the complexities of trusteeship. Meanwhile, if you
have questions, here’s how to reach us:
Questions? Please direct all questions about benefit and pension
eligibility and entitlements to our office. Each member’s situation is
unique, so your record here is needed to answer your questions.
Call us at 780-477-9131 or 1-800-588-1037. Press 1 for Health &
Welfare and 2 for Pensions.
HARDHAT FALL 2009 23
 Skills Training REPORT

Alberta Wins UBC

National Contest

Len J. Bryden,
Director of Training
and Apprenticeship

I t’s official: We now have bragging rights

as tops in carpentry. Carpenter Philip
Waters of Local 1325 won first place over-
all in the UBC National Carpentry Contest
contact us here at the Alberta Carpenters Training Centre.
While I was in Halifax, I took part in the two-day National
Apprenticeship and Training Advisory Committee (NATAC) confer-
ence. NATAC’s annual event brings together training co-ordinators,
held August 20 to 22 in downtown Halifax, directors, trustees and contractors from across the country to talk
gaining national recognition. We are so proud about how we can improve our programs, offer the best services and
that Waters has brought the trophy home to help each other out over the course of the next year. In particular, we
Alberta. To celebrate, we will hang a large discussed how the recession has affected each of the provinces and
banner from the rafters of the carpenters our efforts to continue to share materials and best practices. NATAC
shop at ARCCAW headquarters in Edmonton, attendees also met about cross-country instructor exchange programs,
so swing by to take a look. I also watched which help keep our training and quality consistent throughout the
Andrew Hansen of Local 1460 take home Brotherhood. It was a productive time, so I’m looking forward to the
third place in the millwright competition. rest of 2009 and all of 2010.
Congratulations to both Hansen and Waters Keep safe and keep up the good work!
for their achievements.
The contest, held on the beautiful Halifax
waterfront, brought together winners of pro-
vincial contests along with trades people who
earned top marks in apprenticeship from
each province. They gathered to compete in
carpentry, millwright and drywall theory
and practical skills tests. Local Haligonians
strolling by got a show, watching carpenters,
millwrights and drywallers work away in the
summer heat. Along with the many trades,
contractors, dignitaries and trustees from
many funds attended the festivities. (Mark
your calendars: next year, the contest trav-
els to Ottawa and in 2011 it travels to Quebec
City. Alberta hosts the National Contest in
Edmonton in 2012.)
If you want to participate in next year’s
Provincial Apprenticeship Contest and have WINNER: Local 1325’s
completed your apprenticeship training with- Philip Waters in Halifax
in the past 12 months as of June 2010, please

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 Members of
Local 1325
Fort McMurray

All family members welcome!

Sunday, December 13, 2009
Children aged 12 or younger will
11:30 am – 3:00 pm receive a gift.
Registration deadline: Friday, November 27, 2009
Santa will be there to wish
The Sawridge Merry Christmas to all!
530 Mackenzie Boulevard
Fort McMurray

Celebration includes entertainment and luncheon.

To ensure space for everyone, pre-registration is
required for children receiving gifts and for taking
part in the luncheon.

To pre-register, call the Fort McMurray office at

(780) 743-1442 or toll free (866) 739-7017.

Registration requires the following

information: member’s name, number
of family members attending function,
boy or girl and child’s age.
Please register early.

We will not accept registrations after

November 27, 2009.
Local 1460 Millwrights REPORT
The Winds of Change
Giving you the tools to

B ack in July, Alberta Millwrights Local 1460

build a safe and healthy
hosted the Canada-wide millwrights’ confer- future...in family, work
ence. Training co-ordinators and business rep- and play.
resentatives from every province attended and special
guests included Jim Smith, Vice-President of Canada,
Doug Banes, General Vice-President UBC and Bill Irwin,
Director of Training UBC Las Vegas Training Center.
Topics of discussion included millwright mobility, train-
ing and marketing. To read the full story and learn about
some of the highlights of this year’s conference, turn to
page 10 for our comprehensive report.

Training Tour
As part of the conference, we gave a tour of our new
Alberta Millwright Training Centre while an intake
was in progress, showcasing our commitment to pro-
vide hands-on, task-oriented, value-added training for
Bob Hugh, Senior Business our clients and contractors. Later, Warren Hall gave us
Representative - Millwrights all a tour of NAIT’s Petro Canada Centre for Millwright
Technology. Both Doug Banes and Bill Irwin told me how
impressed they were with the concept of a national apprenticeship program
and the facility that delivered the training.
Such superior training opportunities and facilities separate us from our
competition and ensure a fair market share of work for our members. We offer
courses on everything from gas turbine familiarization to a reciprocating com-
pressor course to a primer on how to be a better supervisor. Please check www.
albertamillwrights.com for information about upcoming courses, or call Laurel
at 780-430-1460, ext. 2166 to register.

Trade Winds Partnership

We are pleased to announce that we are partners with Trade Winds to
Success Training Society that puts aboriginal peoples to work in the trades.
As Trade Winds notes, the project gives participants “career decision-making,
pre-apprenticeship interventions, and personal and academic supports” along
with hands-on trades skills.
An eight-week millwright pre-employment course was developed using SERVICES PROVIDED:
Apprenticeship and Industry Training (AIT) modules. The course takes place > Assessments funded by WCB or
this November and December. Alberta Health Care
Alberta Employment and Immigration also contribute funding to cover
> Fully equipped gym
administration costs and each Aboriginal human resources development
> Experienced Physical
agreement holders (Treaty 7 Management Corporation, Métis Nation of
Alberta and Oteenow Employment & Training Society) assist clients through Therapists & personal trainers
such things as training and employment assistance services. > Open before and after work
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Each of the Local 1460 partners has a commitment to train, mentor and
employ the Trade Winds to Success participants upon successful completion CONTACT INFO:
of the pre-apprenticeship course. It’s a great program and I’m so proud we can www.remed.ca
participate. #217, 14925 111 Ave
Here’s to a wonderful fall. 780-451-2244

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UPCOMING

General Events
October 17: Millwrights Local 1460 Benefits Trust Fund
information meeting
November 13: Local 2010 meeting
December 4: Regional Council Executive meeting
December 5: Regional Council Delegate meeting
December 6: Millwrights Children’s Christmas Party
First Wednesday of each month: Local 1325 meeting
Third Thursday of each month: Local 2103 meeting
Fourth Tuesday of each month: Local 1460 meeting

Christmas Parties
December 6: Local 1325 (Edmonton). See page 30 for full details,
including registration deadlines
December 6: Local 1460 (Edmonton). See page 28 for full details,
including registration deadlines Training
December 13: Local 1325 (Fort McMurray). See page 26 for full Many courses taking place in the next few months have already
details, including registration deadlines filled up. Here are a few that still have space.
December 13: Local 2010, 2103 Children’s Christmas Party (Calgary). Go to www.abcarptc.ab.ca for the full course listing.
See page 24 for full details, including registration deadlines
Edmonton Centre
Pre-employment Carpentry from March 1 to April 23, 2010

Calgary Centre
Scaffolding Level Three from March 15 to April 1, 2010
Hosting and Rigging from April 9 to 11, 2010
Pre-employment Carpentry from April 12 to June 4, 2010
Hosting and Rigging from May 14 to 16, 2010

Note: Period 1 and 2 Carpentry: All classes require government-

registered apprentices. To register with us at the ACTC you must
have your blue book and be in good standing.

Alberta Construction Safety Association

”Making Safety A Way Of Life”
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Safety Coordinator N C
www.acsa-safety.org
Edmonton 1-800-661-2272 • Calgary 1-800-661-0390
Ft. McMurray 780-715-2157

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Parting Shot Glenmore Dam

Controlling the downstream flow of the Elbow River, Calgary’s Glenmore Dam cost
$3.8million when it was built in 1932. It is 320 metres long and 21 metres wide. Using the
downward force of its construction materials’ weight, the dam is able to resist the
horizontal force of the water it holds.

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