First Nation Housing Project

Details

  • Owner/Client
    Working for Colliers Project Leaders Inc.
  • Project/Budget Value
    $55+ million (professional and construction costs)
  • Location
    Northern Ontario
  • Timeframe
    2016-2017

Description & Roles

With the goal to repatriate hundreds of community members displaced by spring floods that destroyed their homes, provide project management services for a design-build contract—i.e. 104 semi-detached modular homes ranging from single to six-bedroom units

  • Assist with proposal development to provide Project Manager services
  • Assist in developing the Design-Build Request for Proposal (RFP) with emphasis on capturing the owner’s requirements
  • Evaluate proposal bids and negotiate contracts
  • Coordinate oversight of the design stage
  • Review Design-Builder mobilization, health and safety, quality control, etc.
  • Provide ongoing project support (e.g. town hall meetings with displaced community members, community elders and town council leaders; construction progress inspections; travel to Northern Ontario)

Challenges

Compressed project timeframe, short summer construction season, high precipitation environment, remote community with limited air, summer barge and winter ice road access