Manitoulin Transport, Montreal

by Rosa Soto | 15 November 2020 12:00 am

A 50-year-old metal roof on Manitoulin Transport’s 98,000-square-foot trucking terminal was leaking. A structural evaluation was completed to determine the load-bearing limits of the roof, which revealed a metal retrofit system was the best option to meet project requirements.

To retrofit the roof, Couverture Montreal Nord installed Roof Hugger LLC’s sub-purlins to purlins, and roof panels onto the sub-purlins. Couverture installed The Garland Co. Inc.’s 18-inch-wide, 24-gauge G-90 galvanized steel R-Mer Span standing seam roof system. Due to the length of panels needed to create a seamless, watertight system, Couverture rollformed the panels on-site. The longest panel is 187 feet.

Panel lengths and tight space constraints around the building required panels to be lifted by crane. Weather conditions needed to be optimal in order to safely operate the crane. Rollforming began in the middle of weeks and the crane was scheduled on weekends. Once the panels were lifted and stacked on the roof, Couverture installed them.

Minimal disruption from the roof-over project to the trucking terminal’s 24/7 operations was a critical project goal. Manitoulin Transport’s trucking terminal has 76 loading docks. It is located in a high volume industrial area near the Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. An average of 200 to 300 trucks arrive and leave the facility per day. The terminal connects the company’s operations with more than 80 other trucking terminals in its network in Canada and the U.S.

Terry McCutcheon, corporate facility manager at Manitoulin Transport, says, “We arranged for rollforming to be started during a time of week and year that would be less disruptive to operations. Garland did a good job of organizing the whole operation so the pain incurred only lasted a few days as opposed to weeks.”

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