Business Chief USA February 2019

1966
Year founded
3,500
Number of
employees
150
active job-sites
coast-to-coast
in Ottawa, as well as in Western and
Atlantic Canada. In fact, Gaulin’s team
won its first building project in British
Colombia in 2019, the East Burnaby
Arena ice sports complex.
Gaulin recognises the need for
Pomerleau to stay focused on executing
projects like these in 2020 while
increasing the company’s use of
technology and innovative solutions
to build better. “We are furthering
the BIM process, coordination and
progress analysis with artificial
intelligence on building & civil project
and for facility management. It will
allow us to automate time-consuming
tasks and optimise time and resource
allocation,” confirms Dao, who is
keen for Pomerleau to keep pushing
the envelope and lead by example as
the Canadian construction industry
undergoes an important digitalisation
process. “Using coordinated
3D models is the key for efficient
prefabrication planning and off-site
construction. Using robots, autonomous
drones and scans to monitor
site progress and quality assurance.”
Gaulin notes a significant trend: that
the projects Pomerleau is taking on
are getting larger and more complex,
with operational responsibility being
transferred to the company from its
clients. “It can make a project even
more challenging when we’re trying
to deliver in the fastest way possible,”
he says. “The labour shortage adds
another layer of complexity and is
really forcing us to innovate the way
we approach construction. In summary,
all our projects are mainly like
a prototype; there are no two buildings
that are the same and we don’t
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