Project 1:

As much as this was’t a particularly challenging installation, the logistics were months in planning. We had to take on 500m of drilling through Sherwood Park’s new subdivisions, in to a trailer park and make arrangements to cut over all the old cables. We had to do the conduit work in the snow and the cable in the spring and that’s when the fun started. Telus had ordered a big concrete box in the neighborhood of 20 tonnes that was designed to land back in the trees, off the road, in the manicured landscape of the trailer park’s serenity garden. When we started looking at the job, we underestimated the coordinating and public relations budget. When we finally got the 100 ton crane scheduled and the holes dug, it had been raining for a week and the box was going to show up early. We must have had 20 inspectors, half of them residents of the park, out to watch the big crane crawl out on the steel plates and pluck the WIC from the trailer and drop it gently in the trees. I missed it, but there were lots of pictures and Telus was pleased. After we had the 200 square meters of sod put down most everyone else seemed to be adequately satisfied too.