University of Manitoba Pembina Hall Student Residence

During construction, Bird erected one of the largest steel box trusses ever installed in Manitoba. The truss joins the 14- and 15-storey towers at the fourth level spanning the existing Pembina Hall building. The colossal 60-ton truss measures 51-metres long, five-metres high, and 2.4-metres wide. The truss took months of planning and fabrication, eight days of assembly, and two 300-ton cranes to install. Precision was crucial with each of the towers a mere six millimetres out-of-plumb to allow the box truss to fit into place.