Among DCC’ s environmental initiatives was the construction of a new central heating plant at 14 Wing Greenwood, Nova Scotia, in 2004. The $ 11.6-million facility was built to increase the reliability and efficiency of the base’ s heating system, as well as reduce maintenance costs by 50 per cent. It replaced two central heating plants that were more than 50 years old and uses far less fuel.
are taken into account when purchasing supplies. Environmental aspects of project work are also taken into account when planning procurement and construction activities, and environmental incidents are reported up the chain of command so that appropriate management response and site action is taken in a timely manner.
At the same time, DCC committed itself to becoming a knowledgeable and experienced partner for DND’ s environmental priorities, including building to standards developed by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design( LEED) organization. DCC also developed a strong expertise in remediation projects, not just in the Arctic, but also on military bases across the country. In 2004, a remediation project at Harvey Barracks— part of the former CFB Calgary site— was completed after 10 years of remediation work including the removal and disposal of unexploded explosive ordnance.
Sound environmental stewardship includes re-using facilities and equipment whenever possible. DCC provided contract management services as part of the closing out of facilities from the German Army Training Establishment at CFB Shilo in 2006, for instance, including a pre-engineered-metal vehicle maintenance building that was deconstructed and re-erected in Winnipeg as a storage and maintenance facility. At the Tracked Vehicle Maintenance Facility— a flagship building, with 12 service bays and three overhead 20-ton capacity cranes— all useful components were removed, to be re-used in a new heavy equipment maintenance building in Winnipeg. This included all machinery, the cranes, the rooftop units and the building’ s steel columns and beams.
On the Pacific coast, DCC helped DND to upgrade its oily wastewater treatment plant at CFB Esquimalt in 2006 – 07. The $ 2.2 million project installed state-of-theart technology that uses an electro-coagulation unit to remove hydrocarbons from a ship’ s bilge water— this water goes through several treatment processes once it leaves the ship, eventually separating into water and oil, which is then re-used as fuel for dockyard boilers. At the opposite end of the country, DCC was working on a new central heating plant for 14 Wing Greenwood, with boilers chosen specifically to help meet Kyoto Protocol targets in place at that time, increase the heating system’ s efficiency and reduce maintenance costs.
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