BUILD Construction & Engineering Awards 2020 22 Aug20415 Best Plumbing & Heating Company - Northern BC ocally owned and operated, Acadia Mechanical has been a mainstay in the construction community of the Pacific Northwest for over thirty years. The team has thrived thanks to finding new ways to delight and satisfy their customers, with expectations always met and often exceeded. The reputation that the team has been able to cultivate has allowed them to take part in many interesting projects, each of which has been completed to the high standards that their clients demand. Acadia Mechanical offers Plumbing, Heating, HY AC, Sheet Metal and Fire Suppression Services in Commercial, Residential and Industrial applications. Acadia works in harmony with their whole team to bring a client’s dream project into reality. This is certainly true of one of the team’s most recent projects at the Coast Mountain College in Terrace B.C. Working alongside the team at IDL Projects and there design build team, Acadia Mechanical is responsible for performing the full mechanical scope on a new three storey, one-hundred-unit student housing dormitory that will be used for generations to come. Additionally, Acadia has been working on the LNG Canada site for Ledcor Construction, Horizon North Logistics and JGC Fluor as well as the Pembina LPG Project in Prince Rupert BC. They do a lot of work in both the mining industry, as well as oil and gas. The LNG Canada site has affected the construction business in the area significantly, being Canada’s largest-ever private sector investments. Neighbouring Terrace, just a forty-minute drive away, is now considering what provisions it has in place for this sudden influx of residents. Construction in the city has already picked up, with the population expected to double in the next ten years. 2019 saw 150 construction permits worth $15 million issued by the city, including 25 single residential and 13 commercial renovations. There have also been several new housing developments up on the Bench area in the northwest comer of the city to accommodate population growth. The team at Acadia Mechanical continues to be successful in a competitive market, which is a credit to their ability to tailor their choice of project delivery methodology to match the way in which an individual project is working. This process of careful consideration on the part of the Acadia Mechanical team not only ensures that they are chosen for specific contracts, but that they are able to deliver exactly what is expected from these contracts as well. Finding the ideal contractor for plumbing and heating is vital to any construction project. Different contractors can offer different terms, skills and ways of working. The talented team of tradesmen/women at Acadia Mechanical are able to offer clients a solution that is perfectly pitched to meet any and all briefs from their clients. We take a closer look at the firm following their tremendous success in BUILD’s Construction and Engineering Awards 2020. L An increasingly popular area that the team at Acadia Mechanical are working in follows the Design/Build approach. Success here depends on a well-defined and explicit scope of work, a specific range of responsibility for each team member and a team that is fully committed to the common needs and goals of the owner. The Design/Build presents great opportunities for businesses to make a profit, with timely decisions allowing a project to move quickly. For the right company, the Design/Build approach is therefore a win-win solution, providing a superb balance between cost, function, efficiency, maintainability, and delivery. Ensuring specifics at the contracting stage and maintaining these throughout a project has been key to the team achieving their impressive reputation. By defining exactly what is expected of all parties, everyone knows their respective risks and obligations. Acadia Mechanical always offers clients “Add and Delete” alternatives which the owner may delete if the bids come in too high, and add value if the project funding permits. The team has worked on so many projects that they have come to see regular pitfalls that cause problems. Their team knows that plans that have been reviewed for constructability and scheduled with failure time. Projects vary wildly in scope, and so being adaptable to changes in schedules thanks to outside events is something that many projects fail to be. The steadily growing size of the firm means that the team are able to take on a number of different projects, each with their own unique set of challenges. For those who work at Acadia Mechanical, the ability to tackle these difficulties, regardless of the circumstances is vital. Each team member is expected to take responsibility for their workload, come up with plans to solve problems as they arise and to ask for help where it is needed. This ability to share responsibility is one of the key tenants that has allowed Acadia Mechanical to thrive. The success of the firm is dependent upon the collective energy, intelligence, and contributions of each and every team member. Only through sharing skills, both practical and emotional, can the team grow. Through this growth, the firm becomes stronger too. It is the enormous diversity of skill that keeps people coming back to this amazing team for work.
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