Simons new 40' high distribution facility in Quebec City includes 470,000 sq.ft. of warehouse, 47 shipping and receiving doors, along with an attached 110,000 sq.ft. office facility.

This is a new distribution and product mixing center for Kraft Canada. All products manufactured within 100 km of Montreal are shipped directly to this facility for eventual distribution across North America. Total building size is 530,000 square feet, 30'-0" clear, including 50'-0" bays, with refrigerated and air conditioned warehouse areas. The project was designed and built in a period of less than 8 months. As a result of the weak clay soils available, piled foundations and a drained construction platform with overbuilt access roads were required. Site logistics and the construction schedule were further complicated by the fact that the foundation work occurred in the early spring season. The slab design allows for heavy floor loading and includes features such as non-corrosive metallic hardener, special floor sealers and fully filled sawcuts. The shipping and receiving docks consist of continuous depressed trenches with vertical lift levelers, with all dock equipment, overhead doors, and dock lifts fully automated and integrally connected.

Demolition of the existing buildings started in the late fall of 2015. The project includes a new 510,000 sf 45’ high warehouse located in Lachine, Quebec at the corner of Louis Amos and 23rd Avenue. The facility, along with its 46 loading doors and 7500 SF of finished offices, was delivered in early fall of 2016.

Voila by Sobeys is the construction of an automated warehouse project specifically designed for best-in-class grocery home delivery. Totalling 498,000 square feet, this project located in Pointe-Claire is the first of its kind in Quebec and serves both the region of Ottawa and Quebec. This innovative service has the capacity to serve up to 39,000 products including fresh produce.

Dollarama's three storey head office, built in 2008, includes 428,000 square feet of constructed area consisting of a 28’-0” clear, 326,000 square foot warehouse, a 72,000 square foot head office and a 30,000 square foot underground parking garage. The offices and underground parking are all designed with an innovative energy design in mind, complete with a Hydronic Hybrid Heat Pump (HHHP) system, utilizing geothermal wells supplemented by a cooling tower to generate condenser water for heat pumps.

Dollarama's continuing expansion and opening of retail stores throughout Eastern Canada created a need for an abundant amount of warehouse space in the region. Reliance's role on the project began at the land acquisition stage, consulting on layout and land use/value and soils review. Subsequently, Reliance advised on value engineering, budgeting, design input for construction methods and scheduling. This distribution center of 336,000 sf includes 18 overhead doors and loading docks, 30'-0" clear high structure, and was completed on an extremely fast-track basis in just 3 months.

New distribution center of 332,000 square feet for The Brick retail store chain was built to satisfy its current needs in eastern Canada. This building serves as phase I of its eastern Canada expansion plan, allowing for an additional expansion of warehouse space of 195,000 square feet. The warehouse space is fully air-conditioned, with 40'-0"clear racking height, and superflat floor slabs of Fmin 65 for an electronic wire guide racking storage system. The 10,000 square foot regional office and customer service pick-up area form the balance of the building.

Expansion of 130,500 SF of warehouse to an existing building of 200,000 SF which was completely stripped and renovated. Total square footage after expansion is 330,500 SF.

This 8 month long, $35M turn-key project was constructed for the developer Aeroterm to house air cargo tenants such as Air Canada, Mercury, and Schenker. The project consists of 2 buildings, sitting on approximately 1,000,000 sf of land, with exterior envelopes consisting of precast concrete, curtain wall and prefabricated insulated metal panels. The careful selection of materials for the exterior wall was primarily based on the period during the year in which the work was to be executed. The sitework included large parking areas, loading docks and roads circulating on the air side to transport cargo to and from aircraft. Over 60,000 sf of administrative areas were fit up for tenants to manage the cargo, including special provisions for conveyors, scales, specialized equipment and cold rooms.

Aluminum extrusion facility housing eastern Canada head offices. Originally constructed in 1995 as a 200,000 sf plant, further enlarged by 50,000 sf in 2000 and an additional 45,000 sf in 2004. The site selected for this building contained a 40'-0" wide river running through it which was excavated and backfilled during the winter months without any impact to the project schedule. The last extension in May 2004 included bases for a $2,000,000 press and underground service trenches.