85, J-Armand Bombardier, Suite 200 Boucherville, Quebec, Canada J4B 8P1 www.bdsd.com Tel.: 450-641-1434 [email protected] Fax: 450-449-1772 If you want flawless plans delivered on time, on budget, every time, it is not enough to simply establish good policies and procedures. The key to your success and that of your customers lies with the people you choose to work with. You need a team... A SPECIAL TEAM One that has seen everything We know because our clients exceptional experience after the industry can throw at it and and partners have come back another, has made us into one that still delivers on time, on to us time and again, relying on of the largest North American budget, and error free. us for the most difficult cost- structural steel detailing offices sensitive east of the Mississippi. and time-sensitive BD Structural Design has that projects. And we know because special team. How do we know? our customers' faith, born of one “Deadlines loomed and we had little to go on.” Showing our sense of initiative H aving worked in the The structural drawings of the We dispatched one of our most Despite the obvious difficulties, construction industry existing not senior draftsmen, who spent two the initiative and the efforts for over 35 years, I available. Pearson is a busy painstaking weeks surveying the of thought that seen place and the area of concern project site and acquiring the get all the detailing done in everything. We've all learned to had to be maintained in service required dimensions information. the live with complex specifications up and erection. last requests. MAURICE DESJARDINS Project Manager With BD since 1993 Has worked on more than 300 projects I minute But when Motto: "It’s all in the details..." change I to a few were days before In close cooperation with the was fabricator and the erector, we Clearly, you can't do a 2,000 were able to come up with a plan supervision of the extension to ton to get feasible field works into the International without the existing their drawings. Deadlines loomed and delays in the project. Toronto airport, I saw extension to we had little to go on. Pearson our team most allowed effective hands without causing us way without the slightest error. assigned to do the detailing something new. Favorite steel building: Becancour aluminum smelter, QC, Canada had buildings to and “We proposed to do it at cost and our client greatly appreciated the gesture.” Sharing responsibility ometimes opportunity comes S In special wasn’t comfortable with this situation which they could not find other reliable disguised as a problem. circumstances created a situation either. Rather than wasting time and detailers. We proposed to do it at cost where the extent of one revision was energy to allocate blame or responsibil- and our client greatly appreciated the A while back, Charles brought me in on not carried out entirely. ity for what had obviously been a mis- gesture and accepted. this case however, the project to provide assembly plans and drafting for the Interquisa understanding, we told this long-standThat discrepancy was eventually ing client we would absorb the cost of What could have been the end of refabrication. a long relationship turned into an petrochemical facility in Montreal. discovered, but by that time, fabrica- Industrial work is complex and revisions tion was well under way and, bottom to the Engineering drawings are line, some columns would have to be Our client, who had worked with us on their ties and the trust they had in one common. BD is well-equipped to re-fabricated resulting in additional the basis of a fair relationship for more another. The proof of the value of a handle revisions efficiently and this has costs for our customer fabricator. than 25 years, refused immediately. relationship built on respect and fairness They offered, instead, to let us name our is that, to this day, we have been work- been a strong contributing factor in our success with industrial work. I wasn’t happy and Charles opportunity for two firms to deepen price on the drafting of two viaducts for ing with them on a continuous basis. STEPHAN DUBEAU Project Manager With BD since 1988 100 projects under his belt Favorite steel building: Freemont Energy Center, OH, USA Motto: "Perfection is the only option!" True dedication very project plan 'enjoys' petrochemical in that we adhere to the schedule deliver as promised. Though it its fair share of changes. Alberta. We had two months of while delivering the same high was unlike any challenge we had We've all seen it before. hard work invested to detail over quality product. That's where I faced before, we got the job or 70% of the project and 50% of the came in. I called the client and done changed. Things get rearranged. tower. That's when the revisions offered more overtime and a changes at time of erection. Complications came second crew to take care of E New equipment is added arise. That's a typical Fast Track Project. in. completely columns building The tower was changed. were New added; the the revision. Also, with teamwork that's legendary here at BD. are made two to three times heavier; effective monumental effort to get the job and, connections sketches. Working done what three to four times more work. closely and in partnership with were Despite the mass of revisions and our client made us determined Carbide's new work, the project demanded and confident that we would on time. happened when detailing Union That's we a new connections meant any collaboration with the client, we were require without That's a story of partnership and bracing system was doubled and and time close Sometimes, though, the changes huge on able to find the most solutions on the KATY MICHAUD, P.E. Project Manager With BD since 1998 20 projects under her belt Favorite steel building: Harborside Plaza 10, NJ, USA Motto: "A late project is a failed project." “The changes were huge and required a monumental effort to get the job done on time.” “All seven of our modules were installed without incident.” Anticipating problems T he project, a nickel mine want to have sliding around on the deck We felt it was only normal that we took were constructed, transported and in Northern Quebec, had a of a barge; so, the engineering all necessary precautions to ensure that assembled together at the site without dozen modules, each weigh- consultant designed a steel support that things would go as smoothly as incidents. would be integrated into the module. planned. ing from 600 to 800 tons. Each of these was pre-assembled in Quebec harbor CHARLES E. BLIER President Founded BD in 1975 Experience covering more than 1,200 projects Favorite steel building: IBM Markham, ON, Canada Motto: "Efficiency, efficiency, efficiency!" Some time later, we took our team to and shipped north on a huge barge to For this module, we received two sets of One example of this was Normand’s the site to have a look at the work. All be assembled on site. engineering plans, one for the building idea the seven of our modules were installed and one for the steel support. The Engineering plans for the buildings and without incident. Going beyond our I was the lead and Normand was in engineer had come up with an original for the support steel. This helped client's expectations is a habit at BD charge of erection diagrams and and sophisticated design solution to identify any potential interference in and one which makes us particularly coordination documents on the grinder minimize the amount of site work to be the detailing work. In cooperation with proud to be a member of that team. module. As you can imagine, a huge carried the Engineer the necessary design grinding mill is not the kind of thing you conditions of this remote Northern site. out in the very difficult to combine together changes were made and the modules Equipment 11,000 square foot drafting room OCE 9600 printers and scanners Custom FTP application Custom time tracking application 40 SDS/2 detailing software licenses The Team 5 professional engineers 38 draftsmen 3 administrators 1 programmer Our Capabilities The Company Heavy industrial buildings Complex geometry buildings Power plants Refineries Pipe racks Multi-story structures Skyscrapers Bridges Schools Auditoriums Heavy-duty equipment Pulp and paper mills Created by Charles E. Blier in 1975 Location: Boucherville, QC, Canada A portfolio of over 500 projects 80,000 hours of detailing per year Single project capacity of up to 10,000 tons An annual capacity of 20,000 tons Member of CISC-ICCA and of THE TEAM TO SERVE ALL YOUR DETAILING NEEDS Our Detailing Services Shop drawings Erection plans Anchor bolts diagrams 3D modeling Steel interchange CIS/2 Connection sketches and design calculations Coordination with sub-contractors Reports (Drafting progress, ABM, Bolt list, etc...) File management (DXF, TIFF, PDF, DWG, BIF, CNC, etc...) Additions and revisions management
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