Structal-Heavy Steel Construction, a business unit of Canam Group Inc., a construction products fabricator, located in Boucherville, Quebec, has secured a contract worth more than $44 million from Stuart Olson Dominion Construction Ltd., a business unit of Churchill Corporation for the construction of a new multisports stadium in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The contract awarded to Structal includes design-build, detailing, business information modeling (BIM) and project management services as well as the fabrication and erection of the steel components. Construction of this stadium is expected to cost in the vicinity of $190 million.
This construction project will bring the number of North American sports facilities Canam Group and its business units have collaborated on over the years to 68, 21 of which are home to Major League teams.
Fabrication of the steel components will take place in the Canam Group plants located in St. Gédéon de Beauce, Quebec, and Calgary, Alberta. Deliveries and field erection are slated to begin in late March 2011 and to be completed during the second quarter of 2012.
The new state-of-the-art stadium with a capacity for 33,000 spectators will be home to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League and the Manitoba Bisons, the University of Manitoba football team considered to be one of the finest on the university circuit.