The industrial sector includes complex programs that require specialized expertise and a full understanding of the potentially challenging building specifications. Specifications can include heavy equipment installation programs, difficult mechanical and electrical installations, sensitive air quality controls or tight specifications for floor flatness.

Mine development involves the excavation of access ramps and declines and the excavation of drifts and crosscuts leading to the ore body. Management believes the expertise in mineshaft sinking has allowed it to capture lateral development work through a bundling of services.

GMS’s mine construction services involve numerous specialized activities related to both surface and underground mine construction. The mine construction work has also included:

• * The construction of refuge stations
• * Underground explosives magazines
• * Underground shops
• * Crushing and conveying systems
• * Sumps and dams for mine dewatering systems
• * Mine stabilization through the installation of rock bolts and application of shotcrete
• * Injection of grout and grout backfill