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1. ROOF COLLAPSES DUE TO SNOW LOADING

• Collapse of Sears Roof at Village Mall – St. John’s, NL
  
  
• Collapse of Wood Motors Ford Building – Halifax, NS
  
  
• Collapse of Aircraft Hangar at Halifax International Airport – Halifax, NS
  
  
• Roof Collapse at Associated Freezers in Burnside Industrial Park – Dartmouth, NS
  
  

2. COLLAPSES DURING CONSTRUCTION

• Five-Storey Wood Framed Apartment Building in Highfield Park – Dartmouth, NS
  
  
• Three-Storey Wood Framed Apartment Building in Highfield Park – Dartmouth, NS
  
  
• Forestry Nursery Education Complex – Middle Musquodoboit, NS
  
  
• South Shore Ready Mix Plant – Bridgewater, NS
  
  
• Bear River First Nations Recreation Hall – Digby County, NS
  
  
• MacGregor Bedding Manufacturing Plant – New Glasgow, NS
  
  

3. EXCESSIVE ROOF DEFLECTIONS DUE TO SNOW OVERLOADING

• K-Mart Plaza on Torbay Road – St. John’s, NL
  
  

4. INVESTIGATION & RESTORATION OF EXCESSIVE ROOF DEFLECTIONS DUE TO IMPROPER DESIGN OF REINFORCED CONCRETE ROOF RING BEAM

• Seton Academic Centre at Mount St. Vincent University – Halifax, NS
   

5. COLLAPSE OF BRICK VENEER DUE TO WIND SUCTION AND INADEQUATE BRICK TIES

• Car Parking Garage – Dartmouth, NS
  
  

6. MASONRY INVESTIGATIONS & RESTORATIONS

• Alderney Manor – Dartmouth, NS
  An investigation/restoration of twelve storey senior citizen's apartment building. The investigation included cyclic lateral load testing (out of plane) of the restored brick masonry veneer/steel stud wall system used in the restoration of Alderney Manor. Lateral load testing was conducted at the structural testing laboratories of the British Ceramic Research Association, Stoke-on-Trent, England.
  
  
• Scott Maritimes Ltd. – Abercrombie Point, NS
  
  
• The American Consulate General at 360 University Avenue – Toronto, ON
  
  
• Commercial Building Complex on Barton Street – Stoney Creek, ON
  
  
• First Baptist Church on Oxford Street – Halifax, NS
  
  
• Northwood Manor – Halifax, NS
  
  

7. HISTORIC RESTORATION

• Cumming Hall at the Nova Scotia Architectural College – Bible Hill, NS
  Original Building Construction Completed: 1904
  
  
• Provincial Building at 1723 Hollis Street – Halifax, NS
  Original Building Construction Completed: 1935
  
  
• Old Post Office Building at 695 Prince Street   – Truro, NS
  1884 Truro Federal Building
  
  
• Civic Building at 730 Prince Street – Truro, NS
  1912 Truro Town Hall, Demolished 10 May 2003
  
  
• Kays Bros. Building at 45 Queens Street – Charlottetown, PEI
  
  
• Province House – Charlottetown, PEI
  
  

8. BUILDING ENVELOPE FAILURE & RESTORATION

• Captain William Spry Community Centre (Spry Centre) – Halifax, NS
  
  
• Examples of Building Envelope Defective Design & Construction
  
  

9. REPLACEMENT OF DETERIORATED PRECAST CONCRETE WALL PANELS WITH UNIQUE CLAY BRICK MASONRY VENEER HAVING WIDE & VARIABLE WALL CAVITY.

•  Elizabeth Towers – St. John's, NL