TPM keeps projects on target
Horizon Housing Society opened its newest facility on its Elbow Valley Lands along Glenmore Trail S.W. in November, providing affordable housing for more than 200 Calgarians.
Designed by Zeidler Architects and built by Clark Builders, it was finished on time and on budget thanks to the watchful eye of Target Project Management (TPM) that had been working with the project since it was first planned.
Under construction and on schedule to be completed by May thanks to TPM is another residential-type project for the John Howard Society. A new community services building, administrative offices and Bedford House — transitional housing with 32 beds for men exiting the justice system — is on a site along Builders Road S.E.
TPM principals Bruce Chapman and Dave Skaret have earned a fine reputation in the project management sector in this city, guiding owners through budgets and scheduling while helping select the best architects and contractors for the job.
They met when they both worked for the former Cohos Evamy architectural firm. Chapman graduated in architectural sciences at Ryerson University in Toronto. He moved to Calgary in 1987 to join Cadillac Fairview, working with regional shopping centres.
At Cohos Evamy, he worked on the Rimrock hotel in Banff and the Westin in Calgary where he was hired on as director of engineering for the downtown property. That led to a number of other assignments over a threeyear period with Westin Hotels as director of facilities.
Then, Chapman decided to launch his own company and TPM became a reality in 1999. In Calgary, Chapman worked on a major expansion at Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise, realigned the retail at Westbrook Mall and began a long association with the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity.
Skaret is an architectural technologist who worked with Cohos Evamy for five years before joining Gibbs Gage Architects, then hooked up with Chapman again when asked to join TPM in 2010.
The principals and their staff in the office on 19th Street N.W. have completed a number of exciting projects, including the challenging extension to the Kahanoff Centre that houses the new Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, the Osten & Victor Alberta Tennis Centre and the prestigious renovation to the bar and in the Delta Hotels by Marriott Downtown.
Hotels continue to be a major client for TPM, with a renovation to the Delta Calgary Airport, the impressive Marriot Hotels complex on the former Alberta Boot site at 5th Street and 10th Avenue S.W. that will open to welcome guests next month, and a major renovation of The Delta Bessborough Hotel in Saskatoon.
TPM is also busy with Phase 2 of the renovation of the food and beverage areas of the Glencoe Club.
News and notes: The Canadian Council for the Americas Alberta is holding a special breakfast presentation about the Mexican oil and gas industry on March
4 at the office of Bennett Jones in Bankers Hall East. Gustavo Hernandez, former director of PEMEX; Diego Bernal and Andres Bernal of NovaOil S.A.; and Carlos Solorzano of SMPS Legal, will be guest speakers from Mexico.