Recent kudos for our crews from SaskPower! After recent storms in the Maple Creek, SK area, Valard crews lent a hand in the restoration efforts. We received this message from our friends at SaskPower: “We’re grateful to the Valard crews for the great support provided during our recent storm recovery in the Maple Creek area!” … Continued
Changes for Valard’s Executive Team Effective March 7 2022, Quanta Services introduced new organizational changes to Quanta’s Canadian Operations. In order to create better alignment, increased synergy and improved overall value to our Canadian customer base, Quanta formed a Quanta Services, Canada Region. With this new structure, all Canadian Power operating units (Valard Construction, Allteck Limited Partnership, … Continued
Executive Appointment for Valard Québec Dave Torgerson, Chief Operating Officer, recently announced the appointment of Gilles Pelletier as Vice President for Valard’s Québec Operations. Gilles has made significant contributions towards building Valard Québec into the successful entity it is today. Gilles Pelletier Vice President, Operations, Valard Québec Read Gilles’s full biography Valard Group of Companies: Better Together … Continued
Hitting a significant milestone on the East-West Tie Line Project. On October 15th we installed the last drilled shaft foundation (shown below). The foundation and anchor program on the project is complete! Check out the Tweet, and follow us on Twitter Learn more about the East-West Tie Transmission Project from NextBridge Supporting Mental Health At Valard, … Continued
COVID-19 | Meeting the Challenge Just as we were getting excited to see governments across Canada removing COVID-19 restrictions, in walks the DELTA variant and the 4th wave. It’s clear, we may be collectively done with COVID-19 but COVID-19 is not done with us. Throughout this roller coaster ride of COVID-19, Valard has chosen a path of … Continued
On The Road Again Northwest Lineman College recently delivered this TransBanker® Mobile Transformer Training Lab to Valard Construction. The TransBanker® Mobile Lab helps Valard provide safe, realistic, hands-on training to its lineworkers and employees at their job sites, minimizing down time and improving productivity. From Valard’s perspective – “The mobile lab will allow us to provide scenario … Continued
Valard Congratulates Jeff Rogers Jeff was recently appointed Vice President of Distribution Dave Torgerson, COO & VP, Central Canada had this to say about Jeff: Jeff has been a Valard employee for over 10 years and has over 30 years of experience in the electrical construction field. He entered the industry as a Lineman and progressively earned his … Continued
Hydro One Selects Valard for the Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) Services for the Waasigan Transmission Line Valard is one of two successful participants named by Hydro One in the early contractor involvement (ECI) process, for the development of the proposed Waasigan Transmission Line Project in Northwestern Ontario. As our President/CEO, Barkley Adams said in the March … Continued
Valard is pleased to be part of the Watay Project, and we congratulate Wataynikaneyap Power LP, who were recently awarded the 2020 Northern Ontario Business Award – First Nations Business Award of Excellence. Sharing is Caring “This photo shows a truckload of birch wood that was delivered in late December by Valard to Fort … Continued
Thanks to our client, Enmax, for sharing this awe-inspiring picture from a late September interphase spacer install near Glenmore Trail in Calgary! Nalcor Energy’s 735 kV Rebuild in Churchill Falls, Labrador has been completed successfully by Valard – shown below are three employees travelling on three different phases, changing spacers. Photo credit: Dale Mayell … Continued