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In partnership with Blackned, a local Cree construction company, we developed this mass timber project with 100% local labour. Due to health and safety restrictions linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, a worksite bubble was created for this project, allowing our teams to develop a close and collaborative relationship.

Sports complex, Waskaganish: working in a spirit of partnership

Location

Waskaganish, QC

Contract type

Construction management, in partnership with Blackned Construction

Client

Cree Nation of Waskaganish

Delivery

2018 - 2021

As part of CFB Esquimalt's B Jetty Recapitalization mandate and with a focus on environmental restoration, Pomerleau has collaborated with 3 partners that promote hiring First Nations workers, including GWAII-Hemmera, for the environmental monitoring of our work. Since project work began, our employees have attended cultural aware- ness sessions led by members of the Songhees First Nation in the aim of facilitating our collaborations with our business partners and communities nearby. Our project team also volunteered 200 hours of community work in collaboration with the HeroWork organization, to renovate the Indigenous Perspectives Society building in nearby Langford, BC.

Location

Esquimalt, BC

Contract type

Lump sum

Client

Defense Construction Canada

Delivery

2019 - 2023

B Jetty Recapitalization, Victoria, BC: collaborative business relationships with Indigenous peoples

Charles-Etienne Bergeron Project Director - Civil & Infrastructures

With the Jetty B recapitalization project, local partners were able to guide us towards tangible and achievable participation opportunities. These initiatives have made it possible to develop the team s common interests, to get involved with the community, and to encourage the search for future initiatives that, among other things, enable continued positive relationships with the Indigenous communities involved in the project.

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