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Founded in 1978, Domaine Forget combines heritage buildings with more modern constructions. To preserve its infrastructure and reorganize certain spaces, Domaine Forget aims to renovate its heritage buildings, built between 1900 and 1960, and carry out necessary updates to meet current standards.

• Work in an Occupied Environment: noise, protection of artworks, and service interruptions.
• Availability of local labor limiting the ability to accelerate the project schedule.
• Large historic property with buildings of various ages.

• Development of administrative procedures, communication strategies and validation of budget and schedule;
• Drawing up the list of studies required, drafting terms of reference for external service providers, and preparing the program and feasibility report;
• Coordination and supervision of detailed program preparation, including professional cost estimates;
• Design follow-up
• Drafting of tender documents and management of the process up to contract award.
• Coordination of the general contractor with the professionals and validation of the work’s conformity.

The project is part of the Espace Bleu network, a government initiative aimed at enhancing Quebec’s cultural, heritage, and tourism infrastructure. The Camille-Roy Pavilion, built in 1854, is part of a collection of heritage buildings owned by the National Museum of History of Quebec. The construction program includes the Espace Bleus initiative, the Séminaire Museum, and common areas.

• Work in an Occupied Building: Managing simultaneous construction projects, requiring negotiations over space and consideration for current users.
• Preservation of Heritage Elements: Ensuring the protection of architectural and archaeological features throughout the renovation.
• Fast-Track Development: Implementing the project on an accelerated timeline, presenting planning challenges due to the evolving nature of the concept.
• Contaminant Management: Addressing the presence of hazardous materials such as asbestos and lead in most areas of the building.

• Construction Site Management: Overseeing construction conditions and general works.
• Progress Monitoring: Tracking project evolution in relation to the schedule and coordinating follow-up meetings.
• Risk and Issue Management: Identifying and addressing potential risks and challenges.
• Gap Analysis: Evaluating discrepancies and implementing corrective and preventive actions.
• Cost Evaluation: Assessing the financial implications of changes based on approved amendments.

The construction of a new multi-purpose hall adjacent to the Saint-Sauveur library will create a cultural hub in the heart of the village on avenue de l’Église. The hall’s distinctive feature will be its capacity to host shows from all artistic disciplines, with a particular emphasis on dance, given the appeal of the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur, which already offers a varied program for a wide audience.

• Steep slope of the site: design of bleachers, stage, loading dock and stage access based on the profile of the slope to minimize excavation costs, provide excellent viewing angles for dance and facilitate universal public access without the need for an elevator.
• Optimization of the 662-seat auditorium.
• Integration of wood in the construction
• Numerous technical requirements and scenographic equipment
• Durability of the tent

• Preparation of preliminary project file
• Financial analysis of the current project through the development of a preliminary global project budget and a master project schedule based on the current design
• Organization of a review of the organization’s needs, coordinating concept revision, market study and proforma budget development.
• Drafting of the project business case.

Les Arts de la scène de Montmagny aims to offer high-quality, diversified programming to the population of the Côte-du-Sud region each year, in order to develop and retain regional audiences. However, the Salle Edwin-Bélanger has major shortcomings for professional shows and teaching stage management and techniques. The main problems concern user safety, acoustics for school activities, the configuration of the hall to accommodate artists, and access and circulation for the public, including people with reduced mobility.

• Acceptance of the project by the School Service Center, eliminating disruption to school functions.
• Identification of risks to develop a safe budget, in particular for the outcome of the seismic code and standards study impacted by raising the roof and piling the basement structure.
• Development of a project and construction schedule, an implementation plan and a strategy for carrying out the work in a school, in order to ensure the safety of the project’s financing costs.

• Preparation of pre-project documents
• Estimate project costs and related expenses
• Development of project budget and master schedule, coordinating technical studies
• Conduct needs analysis workshop to redefine realistic project scope

The Musée POP is an NPO welcoming a diverse public in a 30-year-old complex attached to the Old Prison of Trois-Rivières, a heritage building.
The Museum needed to undertake work to alleviate problems of wear and tear on its installations and equipment, and ensure its long-term survival, while improving energy efficiency and focusing on the safety of personnel and property.

This project involves some major challenges:

• Diverse building styles: a 30-year-old building connected to a 19th-century heritage building.
• Work in an occupied environment requiring coordination: noise, protection of works and service interruptions.
• Project located in Old Trois-Rivières: more complex access, waste management, access and traffic management.
• Highly touristic environment: management of pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
• MCC rules to be applied

• Administrative procedures, communication strategies and validation of budget and schedule;
• Preparation of a list of required studies, drafting of terms of reference for external service providers, and coordination of preparation of program and feasibility report;
• Coordination and supervision of detailed program preparation, including professional cost estimates;
• Preparation of tender documents and management of the process up to contract award.
• Coordination of the general contractor with the professionals and validation of the work’s conformity.

Village en chanson de Petite-Vallée has been an NPO and social economy enterprise for 35 years, overseeing the Festival en chanson, the programming of the Théâtre de la Vieille Forge, a heritage building and nerve center of the Festival en chanson de Petite-Vallée, one of Quebec’s leading song festivals.
The theater burned down in the summer of 2017. Its reconstruction will have to fit into the natural environment, while offering the technological advances of the 21st century.

• Financing by the Quebec government, requiring compliance with the requirements of the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications: in-depth knowledge of the
• Ministry’s rules and deadlines for obtaining authorizations.
  Coordination of numerous stakeholders, site planning in a remote region, proximity to the sea
• Procurement and human resources planning: seaside site implies respect for the high-water line, and planning requires envelope closure before winter.

• Administrative procedures, communication strategies, project charter and validation of detailed program of requirements;
• Preparation of the list of technical studies required: drafting of terms of reference for external service providers, coordination of the preparation of the program and feasibility report, special study on the use of timber and identification of risks;
• Coordination and supervision of preparation of detailed construction program, including cost estimates;
• Value engineering workshop;
• Construction site supervision