News Release Communique
$1-M Canadian Light Source Contract Awarded to Saskatchewan Firm
The University of Saskatchewan has awarded a $1-million contract to Regina-based PCL-Maxam, A Joint Venture for the installation of the main experimental hall floor slab for the Canadian Light Source synchrotron project.
The contract was approved August 18 by the U of S board of governors. Three bids were received, all from Saskatchewan-based companies.
The PCL-Maxam contract includes the installation of 92 cast-in-place concrete piles, supply and installation of reinforcing steel, and placement and finishing of the concrete floor slab.
CLS project construction contracts to date total about $49 million, of which 70 per cent has gone to Saskatchewan-based companies.
This is the last major contract for the CLS building. Tenders for landscaping, sidewalks and furniture remain to be issued.
Construction of the $173.5-million national facility is on time and on budget. The building that will house the synchrotron will be completed by the end of December. The facility will begin operations in January of 2004.
A synchrotron is a huge, high-tech machine that accelerates a stream of electrons and manipulates them to create a beam of light billions of times brighter than the sun. The light can then be used by industrial and university researchers as a revolutionary new tool to observe structures and chemical reactions at a molecular level.
The CLS is owned and controlled by the U of S. CLS construction is mainly funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Canadian government, the Saskatchewan government, the Ontario government, the University of Saskatchewan, the City of Saskatoon and SaskPower.
For more information contact:
Barry Hawkins
CLS Project Manager
(306) 966-6065
Kathryn Warden
Communications Officer
Office of the Vice President Research
(306) 966-2506 Phone
(306) 966-2411 Fax
kathryn.warden@usask.ca
Last modified: 2012-01-19 17:01:54