CI Energy Group’s 3rd Annual Camp Logistics and Workforce Accommodation

Registration Opens and Coffee is Served

Opening Remarks from Conference Chair

Lodging 2.0 – How the Industry is Introducing Greater Functionality, Choice and Comfort in the Accommodation of Workers

• How the remote housing sector is adopting new building materials, styles and bringing innovation to the market to make lodges more ‘liveable’
• How have camp bedrooms evolved to offer more personal space and home comforts?
• Are private bathrooms now the norm, or are we not there yet?
• The importance of managing fitness centre assets and innovations in order to maximize product lifespan:
  • Facility design to maximize your space and meet necessary safety clearances to accommodate the peak hours of use before and after dinner service
  • Creating an inviting environment for all fitness users
  • Industry recommendations on the proper fit for “unsupervised” wellness centres to ensure there is no liability, WCB and safety issues
  • Current market trends in camps for fitness and wellness programs
• The truth about hoteling:
  • To what extent is this practice embraced by camp operators?
  • How is the hoteling model impacting the design of new lodges, including showers, storage and waiting areas?
  • Weighing the cost considerations of implementing hoteling designs earlier in the construction process than during later renovations

Networking Coffee Break

Exploring Security Concerns through a Wide Lense and Ensuring a Safe Camp Life for All Workers

• Analyzing the experience of dry camps versus wet camps: Does an operator’s choice directly correlate with the degree of worker personal safety?
• How are camp operators contending with drug use among camp residents and is it possible to implement a fool-proof narcotics-detection system?
• Understanding the implications of the 2014 ban against random drug and alcohol tests and the next wave of challenges
• Establishing pre-emptive strategies to contain potential violence in camps
• Developing and training a security team to manage safety risks
• Tools to assess the physical and social conditions of work camps and to provide evidence-based recommendations on how to optimize worker living space

Keeping Remote Accommodation Humming Along: Standards, Modernization and the Mechanical, Electrical and Water Requirements

• What are the provincial and federal standards operators need to comply with today and in the near future?
• How facilities are powered: Debating the use of diesel versus natural gas and the associated environmental issues and financial costs
• Climate control: Exploring the HVAC systems that ensure environmental comfort
• How the government is modernizing water systems and ensuring safety and reuse
• Minimizing water usage in camp locations
• Cenovus Energy Case Study: Comparing onsite water & wastewater treatment vs. hauling
  • What are the benefits and negatives of each method?
  • Identifying and mitigating the risks of both options
• Should there be greater external oversight of onsite water treatment to ensure it’s executed properly?

Networking Luncheon for Delegates and Speakers

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What’s for Dinner? Keeping Meal Time Affordable, Healthy and Satisfying Despite Budgetary Constraints

• Canadian beef supply and menu opportunities:
  • ‘Hidden Gems’, unique value beef cuts
  • Seasonality
  • Grades
• Ensuring well-stocked camp kitchens through a robust supply chain
• Vegan, anyone? Catering to gluten-free diets and other special meal requests
• Slashing expenses, wasting less and adding variety – Are food courts the answer?
• Efforts to address concerns related to food safety in a lodge environment

Networking Coffee Break

Increasing Effectiveness, Productivity and Accountability by Integrating Mobile Technology with Existing Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)

• How to choose a CMMS for your organization
• Getting the most value from your CMMS capabilities
• Understanding the financial costs and savings

Building and Running Your Own Camp or Opting for Third-Party Outsourcing – Examining the Case for Each Option

• Perspectives from energy operators and camp builders
  • Long-term savings, operational autonomy and other major benefits
  • Analyzing the disadvantages of both options
• How cost containment is driving changes in oil sands accommodation
• Future outlook and trends for camp operations

Co-Chair’s Recap and Conference Adjourns

Cocktail Reception 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
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Coffee Served

Opening Remarks from Conference Chair

Accuracy in Manpower Forecasting: How it Can Make or Break Your Project

• Understanding how the tool ascertains logistical and housing requirements related to your project
• Analyzing the challenges operators encounter to increase the rigour of the demand forecasting process
• How incorrect models for bussing, flights and lodging can severely impact your project and what the time line is for developing a precise version

Examining Technologies Transforming Workforce Accommodation and Discussing Tools on the Horizon to Modernize Future Camps

• What are the latest technologies on the market for tracking and managing camp reservations, meal counts and travel arrangements?
  • How cell phones will improve the check-in and check-out processes
• Surveying the slate of security systems for lodging room access and how options are growing in sophistication
• Discussing the next generation of technologies

Networking Coffee Break

Navigating Provincial Permitting Rules and Understanding the Impact on Your Camp Site Selection Process

• Reviewing the status of permitting regulations and whether changes are forthcoming: How will industry be affected?
• Wildfire preparedness planning and the associated impact on emergency response plans, permitting rules, camp engineering and site selection
• The role that First Nations play in building and expanding industry camps and how to properly engage with such stakeholders
• Discussing alternative options being floated to accommodate workers on energy and mining projects – How viable are they?

FIFOR (Fly In / Fly Out & Rooms) + Mobile Check-in = The Complete End-to-End Solution

• Commercial flights directly into SABRE
• Transportation bookings
• Room bookings transmitted real-time to your property
• Mobile check-in with your phone using remote key activation

Networking Luncheon for Delegates and Speakers

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Logistical Challenges and Lessons: Comparing Fort McMurray and Fort St. John

• Comparing efforts to build additional road infrastructure and bolster ground transportation safety in these remote locations in Alberta and BC – What improvements have been made to facilitate the movement of workers, equipment and supplies?
  • How the industry is innovating to tackle road hazards: A look at GPS systems alerting drivers and their employers to high truck speeds
• Best practices: Lessons that BC airports struggling with an influx of LNG sector workers can glean from Fort McMurray aviation counterparts regarding the processing of passengers in airport terminals
• Other major logistical problems and potential solutions

Networking Coffee Break

Improving Water Treatment for Camps in Fort McMurray

• Recent changes in water and waste water plant design
• The economics of operating your own water and waste water plant

Keeping Workers Safe and Healthy in Remote Camps and the Surrounding Areas

• Bed bugs, bedroom mould and infectious skin diseases – A look at the problems that can potentially devastate workforce housing and how to develop robust detection systems
• Being cognizant of the wildfire hazards associated with remote camps and how to mitigate your wildfire risk on and off your site
• Creating strategies to stay ahead of potential environmental and health-related concerns, and establishing action plans in the event of a crisis
• MEG case study:
  • Understanding the connection between overall worker health and exercise programs and recreational activities
  • Motivating safety-conscious staff in camps while maintaining productivity

Conference Adjourns