b'PCL\'s "Quaran-Tin-Cans" are built using shipping containers.PCL\'S QUARAN-TIN-CANS come back and rejig the mechanical, moving some inside They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and whileand mounting other things on top, so we definitely grew Sprungs structures are a modification of a design they hadand adapted during the process.deployed to disaster locations for years, PCL ConstructorsBeyond the pandemic, Harms says the Quaran-Tin-Cans Canada Inc. met the challenge of the pandemic with acould be repurposed for use as temporary shelters in flood made-in-Manitoba solution. Outside of Winnipeg withsituations, or as extra shelters for homeless facilities. They some of our northern communities, there is no bed spacecan be so customizable and flexible for so many different or treatment space for a very long way for a lot of people,purposes, he stresses, and not just limited to within our notes Wade Harms, PCL\'s Director of Business Development.borders in Manitoba. Were continuing to kind of riff on So we asked ourselves: what if we could bring clean, safethese ideas to try to figure out some other ways they can facilities to the hospitals or northern communities, wherebe customized for different versions that would help to people could be treated? They would have to be quick torespond to the different needs created by COVID-19, to help mobilize, portable, easy setup and very cleanable, of course.businesses get back to work and that kind of thing. So stay It just had to be a very simple and elegant solution, but ittuned for what we can come up with next. also had to be something we could develop and build very quickly and deliver just about anywhere.The PCL solution: shipping containers modified for use in a host of medical isolation applications, dubbedwait for itWE ARE MORE THAN Quaran-Tin-Cans. Realizing that the shipping containers were a natural building block to start with, the design teamBUILDERS.began working on the physical infrastructure that would allow a hospital, clinic, community or, in some cases, even a business to isolate someone. From there, PCL began fine-tuning the mechanical and electrical details, making sure that the units were negatively pressurized, that they had HEPA air filtration and the ability to feed oxygen if someone needed it. We partnered up with Price (Industries) to incorporate their Fan Filter Units into the cans to provide those features, Harms continues. Then we had to make sure that they were simple to install, meaning that they had to be a discreet package that someone could drop down on the parking lot or wherever they have space, run some electrical to it and basically be a spot where they can start treating people in them right away.PCL completed the arc from conception to the completion of the final prototype with remarkable speedabout three weeksbut thats not to say that everything fell into placeWe are construction partners who are immediately. We had been building in all of the mechanicalpassionate about what we do and about for one of our original prototypes to sit kind of adjacent tocreating successful outcomes for our clients, the can, explains Harms, and as we added one piece afterwhich lead to our mutual success. another, we got to the point where wed almost doubled the length of the can. So we had to slam on the brakes and think all of those configurations through again. OurTOGETHER WE BUILD SUCCESS.mechanical partners at Thor Plumbing & Heating had to Issue 2 Summer Edition 2020 BUILD MANITOBA 35'