Case study · South Surrey, BC
Sobey’s needed a supply chain. We gave it a frame.
In late 2018, Beedie engaged ISM to detail, fabricate, and install the structural steel for Sobey’s new distribution centre — a half-million square feet that mainland BC and Vancouver Island groceries now move through.
One team, no handoffs. ISM carried this project through all three of its divisions — the steel was modelled in the drawing office, cut and welded in the Delta shop, and bolted up by ISM’s own field crews. At peak, four field crews with twenty-eight ironworkers were erecting structural and miscellaneous steel on site.
The hard part: thirty substantial vertical trusses, each weighing ten tons, designed, fabricated, and erected as part of the package — with significant extra work installed simultaneously with the base building.
Over forty thousand man-hours went through the shop and field to deliver the building — on a schedule where a grocery distribution hub can’t simply wait.
The facility now forms a critical component of Sobey’s supply chain, built to allow continued growth throughout mainland BC and Vancouver Island.
This project “will form a critical component of Sobey’s supply chain immediately and into the future and the facility will allow for continued growth throughout mainland BC and Vancouver Island.”