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REGINA – The recently launched Saskatchewan Monthly Construction Update is providing a glimpse into projects currently underway across the province.

This month it reports select construction projects at Saskatchewan provincial parks have reached substantial completion, including work at the service centres in Greenwater Lake Provincial Park’s Cranberry Campground and Duck Mountain Provincial Park’s Fern Campground.

Construction is progressing at the misiwe-kisik | One Sky School in Saskatoon and an equipment storage building project in Lumsden.

The new elementary school is under construction to serve the Pleasant Hill, Riversdale and King George neighbourhoods in Saskatoon. 

The Saskatoon City Centre School project will consolidate the King George, Princess Alexandra and Pleasant Hill school communities into a facility for up to 400 pre-kindergarten to Grade 8 students as well as 74 child care spaces.

The school will be located on the former Princess Alexandra School site at 210 Avenue H South in Saskatoon.

The build is using reclaimed wood, “a key, creative construction feature which honours the past in a modernized education facility. The use of reclaimed wood was made possible through a $1 million investment from the federal government through the Green Construction Through Wood program,” the update notes.

“Timber salvaged from four historic Saskatchewan grain elevators located in Kenaston, Milden, Simpson and Domremy has been repurposed into nail-laminated timber (NLT) panels used throughout the building.”

Another unique feature of the project is the use of precast concrete panels for the exterior wall assembly. These panels are fabricated off-site and then delivered for installation.

“With Quorex’s vast experience in conventional steel and pre-cast systems, we found the transition to mass timber to be relatively simple, the main difference being the need for greater precision in layout and installation, as mass timber limits tolerance for adjustments,” Quorex operations manager Brent Mareschal said in the report. “Much of what was installed arrived as a finished product, which significantly reduces the need for additional trades, materials and rework later in the project. With proper planning and execution, mass timber provides an efficient construction approach with savings in time, labour and resources.”

The use of premanufactured panel building components such as NLT, cross-laminated timber and the precast concrete panels has helped advance construction, the report notes.

Key features of the design include increasing the gymnasium size beyond a standard elementary school gym, upgrading the servery to a full commercial kitchen and adding a dedicated community cultural space.

A new location to store heavy equipment and road care supplies such as winter maintenance vehicles, road salt and sand is under construction near the town of Lumsden.

Located northeast of the community at the top of the valley, the Lumsden Equipment Storage Building project will replace the existing storage facility.

This project uses a standardized equipment storage building design that has been implemented across Saskatchewan.

“Ledcor is proud to be part of the Lumsden Equipment Storage Building project, which will provide a modern office and maintenance facility to support the Ministry of Highways’ operations,” said Ledcor Construction senior vice-president – Prairies Brian Barber. “With the steel structure now complete the project continues to move forward smoothly thanks to the strong collaboration between the Ministry of Highways, the Ministry of SaskBuilds and Procurement, the consultant design team and our project team.”

The project is currently in the structural phase, with foundation work, site grading and assembly of the steel structure now complete. The building envelope will be the next focus, moving the facility toward enclosure and interior development.

The building envelope is scheduled to be completed by end of summer 2026 with substantial completion anticipated for winter 2027.