Surrey city council awarded nearly $15 million in contracts Monday (June 5) for road maintenance, drainage work, intersection improvements, dump trucks, boilers, pool chemicals and a bump-up related to the spending limited for a contract involving the Cloverdale Sport & Ice Complex project.
All told, $14,858.328.83 in contract awards came before council. And that’s not including spending limits set for each contract.
Including authorized spending limits, that’s potentially $18,780,227.97.
Surrey’s engineering department recommended that council award $2,477,016.15 (with a spending limit of $2,724,171.77) to Clearway Construction Inc. for sanitary and drainage utility improvements at 7010 King George Boulevard to support growth in Newton Town Centre, reduce Hyland Creek Erosion and replace a drainage main at the CN Railway crossing at Timberland Road. “A recent inspection discovered significant structural failures requiring immediate replacement,” Surrey’s general manager of engineering Scott Neuman explained in a corporate report.
Work is expected to start in June 2023 and be completed by October 2023.
Surrey’s engineering department also recommended council award to Lafarge Canada Inc. $2,719,484.25 (spending limit set at $2,991,500) for road improvement traffic safety improvements including sidewalks, cycle tracks, curb bulges, pedestrian crossings, street lighting and road paving at various locations throughout the City – with some of the work to be done near schools – at Old Yale Road from University Drive to King George Boulevard (Holland Park), 61A Avenue from 172A Street to 176 Street (George Greenway Elementary School) and 192 Street from the 6000-block to 60B Avenue (Latimer Road Elementary School).
Neuman said construction will be 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday, and “for locations fronting schools, the work will be completed during non-school days over the summer break.”
He also recommended that council award to Crown Contracting Limited $1,752,971.33 (spending limit set a $1,928,300) for the installation of three new traffic signals, at 88 Avenue and Nordel Way, 64 Avenue and 138 Street, and 68 Avenue and 196 Street with construction to take place from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Friday, starting in June and expected to be completed in October.
The engineering department also recommended that council award to First Truck Centre Vancouver Inc. $2,425,578.20 (spending limit set at $2,425,578.20) to supply five diesel-fuelled tandem axle dump trucks “with associated winter maintenance equipment,” and award to Le Groupe Simoneau Inc. $3,178,028 to supply two new gas-fired hot water boilers for West Village Energy Centre at 13231 Central Avenue, with a spending limit set at $3,178,028.
“Due to construction of new high-density buildings in city centre, the demand for heating capacity has increased significantly, which has prompted the need to upgrade the boiler capacity at WVEC,” Neuman explained. “The new 15 MW capacity boilers will replace two existing 5 MW boilers and will work in parallel with the remaining 5 MW boiler. The replaced boilers will be redeployed in a future energy center to support future growth in city centre.”
Meantime Laurie Cavan, Surrey’s general manager of parks, recreation and culture, recommended that council award to ClearTech Industries $620,592 (spending limit $682,650) to provide pool chemicals for the city’s aquatic facilities.
General manager of planning and development Don Luymes and Jeff Arason, director of strategic initiatives and corporate reporting recommended in a report that council increase the expending limit to $4,313,726.55 from $2,629,006.65 – an increase of $1,684,659.90 – involving a contract with Taylor Kurtz Architecture + Design Inc. in association with Rounthwaite, Dick and Hadley Architects Inc. involving the Cloverdale Sport & Ice Complex.
In that same report, Luymes and Arason also recommended that council set the revised authorization limit at $4,850,000, for architectural design and construction administration services related to the addition of a third NHL-sized ice sheet to the complex. The construction of the third ice sheet is expected to begin in the fall of 2025 with it to be ready for use in the summer 2027.
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