Groupe Pomerleau-Canam to be given contract for Olympic Stadium roof

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The company that manages Montreal’s Olympic Stadium says it plans to signal a contract with Groupe Pomerleau-Canam to give you a substitute roof.

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The Société de développement et de mise en valeur du Parc olympique introduced on Wednesday that it’s cancelling a public name for proposals to give you an answer to interchange the roof and desires to signal a contract by mutual settlement with Groupe Pomerleau-Canam.

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The contractor will proceed creating the undertaking, which can combine the roof substitute and the substitute of the technical ring, the company stated in a press assertion. Integrating the 2 in a single contract will simplify the undertaking, it stated. The roof of the stadium has reached the tip of its helpful life and the technical ring must be changed to adjust to the nationwide constructing code, it added.

The contractor may even consider the price estimate, the company stated.

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“This determination is deemed vital and takes into consideration the present context of the undertaking, which is radically totally different from what it was … nearly six years in the past,” the press assertion stated.

“This step will make it doable to finish the enterprise case by the tip of the autumn and submit it to the federal government for its approval.”

The stadium was constructed for the 1976 Summer time Olympics and was dwelling to the Montreal Expos baseball membership from 1977 to 2004.

The company stated the substitute undertaking “goals to offer the Olympic Park the opportunity of working the Olympic Stadium in full security all 12 months spherical and, consequently, of totally taking part in its position for Montreal and Quebec.”