The pandemic: springboard for innovation Our response to COVID-19 was based on our innovation management system.

In a matter of days, we developed and deployed a plan, protocols, technologies, signage and inspection policies for all our sites across the country.

We wasted no time in opening this toolbox to all construction-industry players partners and competitors alike. We have stood together in the face of adversity, thanks to our Commit- ted Contractor initiative, which has made it possible to harmonize our sanitary measures.

Our solidarity and fastidious hygiene policies on job sites have paid off: our measures have influenced the standards of Canadian public occupational health and safety organizations, and the construction industry has been able to continue operating.

Digitization and collaboration at work

We developed the POMSpace platform to coordinate the presence of employees and visitors in our offices and to comply with public health regulations. People who need to visit our offices can book a workstation, as well as finding out which colleagues are in the office when and where, if there will be people seated nearby and if the daily occupancy limit has been reached.

By working with partners and by building with modular units, we were able to put up four highly complex clinics in only nine months, a job that would normally take eight to 10 years.

Among other things, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital in Montreal now has 36 new isolation rooms with a 40-year life span. Equipped with ultra-sophisticated mechanical technology, these rooms currently prevent the spread of microbes when treating COVID-19 patients and will be used for immunosuppressed can- cer patients once the pandemic is over.

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