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Our moving day has arrived!

We are so excited to be moving into our new facility in Coquitlam.

This new property acquisition will allow Certified to house it’s Sales, Operations and Equipment & Maintenance Teams under one roof.

Our corporate support and finance department will remain in our Castlegar office.

Please note our new location and contact information effective April 1:

41 Fawcett Rd, Coquitlam, BC V3K 6V2

Phone: 604.525.1002 
Fax: 604.526.1036

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Certified’s CEO Cliff Harper was on hand in San Antonio to receive our 3rd George Campbell Award

Certified Coating Specialists has been internationally recognized by the Society of Protective Coating for the third time for its unique ability and skill set in addressing complex industrial painting projects.

This recognition has come in the form of selecting Certified Coating Specialists for its third George Campbell award for their innovative work on the BC Place Revitalization Project.
The multi-faceted project at BC Place presented unique obstacles as the angled design of the building’s roof masts made it difficult to reach many of the areas needing remediation. Certified needed to be forward thinking and creative if the work was to be done in time for the stadium re-opening, so the project team utilized rope access, swing stages and platforms to get their specialized workers 300 ft in the air. This attention to detail, especially with regard to safety, helped them meet a tight deadline with no LTA’s over the nine-month duration of the project.

Certified is proud to be the only industrial painting contractor to have been honored with three awards, having been previously recognized for their work on the Liard River Bridge and Berth 2 and West Potash Ship Loaders at Neptune Terminals.
The award, which honors outstanding achievement in the completion of a difficult or complex industrial or commercial coatings project, is named for the late George Campbell, founder of Campbell Painting Company in New York.

Read the full article in this month’s edition of JPCL

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Certified Coating Specialists is pleased to announce that Frontier Kemper, general contractor for the Greater Vancouver Regional Districts (GVRD) Seymour Capilano Filtration Project has selected Certified to provide industrial coating services for interior weld seams of the twin tunnel steel pipe.

Frontier and the GVRD were careful in the selection of the coating tie-in contractor as the contractor will have to address a myriad of safety hazards such as fall prevention, confined space management, isocyanate chemistry and general trade risks when working under ground while meeting the safety quality schedule and cost requirements of the project.

According to Frontier Kemper’s Project Manager Nestor Garavelli, “After a thorough review of our options we selected Certified based on their experience, team make up and track record. We are expecting a well executed project by this team.”

Cliff Harper, CEO of Certified stated, “Certified has more water passage coating tie in experience than any other western Canadian painting contractor and while this contract comes to us with many challenges we are up to the task and looking forward to being a significant contributor to the final stages of bringing this project on line.”

About the Seymour Capilano Filtration Project

The project will provide filtration and ultra-violet disinfection of drinking water from two of Metro Vancouver’s three source water supplies. It has four key elements: the filtration plant, located in the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve; the Capilano pumping station; twin tunnels that will convey water from the Capilano source to the plant for treatment and return treated water for distribution; and an energy recovery facility.

 Source: Metro Vancouver

Each of the twin tunnels are 3.8 metres in diameter, 7.1 kilometres long and 160 to 640 metres below ground level. These massive tunnels, including the shafts, took six years to excavate, one year to install the permanent support, and will take an additional two years to line.
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About Certified
Since entering the industrial coating market in 1994, Certified has become an industry leading contractor specializing in lead abatement, corrosion management, asset rehabilitation and coating application for industrial and marine settings.

Certified Coatings is an SSPC QP1 and QP2 certified contractor with BC and Alberta COR certification and a successful track record in having executed up wards of $100,000,000 in coating related contract work.

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Mr. Ben Brooks, CSO, NCSO, Canadian Regional Health & Safety Manager, has joined Certified’s team alongside long standing safety officer, Darren Ponte, TQP, CSO, and Certified’s Resource Manager, to enhance our ability to meet our customers’ ever more challenging support needs.

Certified was built on the principle, “No dollar bill is worth a man’s health”. Our leadership today still believes and adheres to this principle.

Over the last 18 years, Certified Coating Specialists Inc. has grown to be the leading industrial abatement and painting contractor in British Columbia and from this base today Certified delivers its services across Western Canada. The typical Certified contract demands extensive safe work and environment plan development, articulation, training support and monitoring at levels that need the focus and attention of another full time safety officer. Following an extended search effort Certified was introduced to Mr. Brooks and found in him a kindred soul regarding safety beliefs, philosophy and expectations.

Mr. Brooks brings 10 years of safety leadership experience, numerous environmental, health and safety management certifications and qualifications among which are  Alberta NCSO and BC  CSO accreditations. Ben’s role as a Medical Emergency Responder on large active work sites required his proficiency in safety audits, incident investigations and claims management. From designing and implementing health and safety programs, to teaching Confined Space and Fall Prevention, Ben adds a new dimension to the team.
Ben, having immersed himself into Certified from day one, states “This is an exciting opportunity for me as I have been in search of a company that not only talks the talk but has an extensive track record of walking the walk. Certified averages about 120,000 man hours a year and has kept LTA’s to one per 750,000 man hours worked. Quite an achievement in the industrial sector they work within. I am looking forward to contributing to this award winning company and helping every person employed make it home safe at the end of every shift!”

Darren Ponte believes “Ben brings a whole new energy level to our safety objectives and I am looking forward to collaborating with him to continue the work of keeping Certified the safest industrial abatement and coating application contractor in Canada!”

Ben will be working out of the Vancouver office and can be reached at 604-255-1001 ext 25

Certified is Alberta & BC COR certified and committed to ensuring Safety, Environment and Health are never compromised.

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Certified was contracted by Voith Hydro Inc to perform a five phase project of lead abatement and coating of the scroll case and penstock at Gordon M. Shrum Generating Station in Hudson Hope, BC.

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Certified was contracted by BC Ferries for surface preparation and painting of ramps, aprons, towers and head frame of Berth 3 at the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal.

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Working from barge camps in the Toba Inlet of BC, an 85 man Certified team was contracted to repair over 600 penstock weld seams in two penstocks over the mountains in the winter.

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Certified was contracted by BC Ferries to abate exisiting lead based coatings on the MV Nicola to prepare it for full refurbishment.

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