Mont-Tremblant, Quebec · Laurentides, Lanaudière, Outaouais and remote regions 819-717-3727  ·  info@vigiechantier.ca Français
Vigie Chantier, home A division
of ARTHEB Inc.

Construction site coordination and support for plumbing and heating

The Vigie Chantier team brings thirty years of field experience in plumbing and heating to engineering firms, contractors and project owners. By engagement or by the hour.

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Clients
Engineering firms, plumbing and heating contractors, project owners
Territory
Laurentides, Lanaudière, Outaouais and remote regions. Overseas engagements.
Formats
Engagement, hour bank or fixed fee
Response
Reply within 24 business hours, written proposal within 48 business hours

An experienced team on site

Available quickly, with no permanent hire. Our work comes down to four things.

Read plans and specifications

Mechanical documents are read through the eyes of those who have had to build them.

Detect early

Slippages in sequencing, coordination and delivery are caught before they become costly.

Speak the same language

A shared vocabulary with foremen, project managers and engineers.

Document

Short, factual, photo-documented reports, delivered within 24 business hours.

Services

Every engagement starts with a written proposal that sets out the scope, the deliverables and the frequency of visits.

Building mechanical engineering firms

Experienced resources integrated into your team, under the direction of the engineer in charge, who keeps the signature on certificates and directives. By project.

Support for your site supervision team
Scheduled or one-off visits, photo reports, log of observations, follow-up of the directives issued by the engineer.
Continuous presence
Large-scale projects or projects in remote regions.
Progress verification
Field validation of the percentages declared in payment applications.
Constructability review
Field comments on shop drawings and proposed sequences.
Commissioning and project closeout
Follow-up of tests and deficiency lists, verification of closeout documents.

Plumbing and heating contractors

An external project manager, on demand, who knows the rules of the public and institutional sectors. Without hiring one year-round.

External project manager
Site meetings, coordination with the general contractor and the other trades, schedule, labour forecast.
Internal quality control
A second look at your installations before the engineer's visits: fewer reworks, fewer holdbacks.
Contract administration
Change notices, extras, claims, notices of contract, releases, holdbacks and project closeout.
Site audit
Diagnosis of a project in difficulty, with a report and a recovery plan within five business days.
Institutional bid review
Review of the specifications, the pitfalls, the sequencing and the constructability, delivered within your bid deadline.
Mentoring
Monthly coaching of project managers and foremen: site reports, deficiency follow-up, payment applications.
Remote region logistics
Mobilization, lodging, execution sequence and supply.

Project owners and general contractors

Technical representatives who speak the language of the site and the language of engineers.

Coordination of the mechanical trades
Sequences, interfaces and bottlenecks between the parties involved.
Project closeout follow-up
Deficiency lists, follow-ups and handover of documents.
Review of payment applications
Consistency between the progress declared and what is actually in place.
Regular reports
A factual, photo-documented picture of the state of the site.

Overseas real estate projects

An on-site representative for developers and owners who are building a real estate complex abroad.

Construction supervision
Presence on the site to follow progress, quality of execution and adherence to the schedule of a real estate complex, on behalf of the project owner.
Liaison with local parties
A link between the developer, the general contractor and local professionals: directives, open items, decisions to be made.
Remote reporting
Photo-documented reports and periodic summaries for the owner who stays in Quebec.
Continuous presence or rotations
Depending on the length of the project and the frequency of visits you want.
Acceptance and project closeout
Deficiency lists, follow-ups and handover of the closeout documents.

Service formats

By engagement or by the hour, depending on your project.

FormatDescriptionSuited to
Site visitHalf a day or a full day on site, with a photo-documented visit report.A specific need or a second opinion
Hour bankPrepaid hours, used as the project moves along: meetings, visits, remote consultations.Needs that vary from one week to the next
Monthly engagementA regular presence on your project, with a weekly summary by email.Large projects and engagements of several months
Fixed feeSite audit, bid review or commissioning assistance, with scope and price set in advance.A defined deliverable

Rates are set out in a written proposal tailored to your project. A free 30-minute call is enough to scope your needs.

How an engagement works

From the first call to the handover of the complete file.

  1. Scoping call

    30 minutes, free of charge: your project, your needs, the schedule.

  2. Written proposal

    Within 48 business hours: scope, deliverables, rate, frequency of visits, duration.

  3. Signed engagement

    Deposit paid for fixed-fee and monthly engagements.

  4. Execution

    Visits, reports within 24 business hours, open items log kept up to date.

  5. Closeout

    End-of-engagement report and handover of the complete file: reports, photos, log.

Deliverables

  • Visit reportDate, personnel present, progress by area, observations, dated photos, items to follow up and the person responsible for each.
  • Open items logUpdated at every visit.
  • Weekly summary by emailFor ongoing engagements.
  • End-of-engagement reportDelivered with the complete file.

Scope of work

Vigie Chantier is not an engineering firm and does not carry out any activity reserved under the Engineers Act. Our services are site coordination, monitoring and support services.

What we do

  • Observe, coordinate, document and recommend
  • Write factual, photo-documented reports
  • Follow open items until they are closed
  • Refer technical decisions to the professional they belong to

What we do not do

  • No certification of compliance of the work: it remains the responsibility of the engineer in charge of supervision
  • No engineering opinions, plans, specifications or calculations
  • No inspection of works within the meaning of the law
  • No direction of the contractor's personnel: the foreman keeps direction of the workers

On an engineering firm engagement, the engineer in charge defines the scope of the visits, receives the reports and issues the directives. On a contractor or project owner engagement, Vigie Chantier observes, coordinates, documents and recommends. On an overseas engagement, the professional rules of the host country apply: certificates and directives remain the responsibility of the authorized professionals on site.

Commitments

What you can count on.

Confidentiality

Plans, specifications, prices and site documents are never shared outside the engagement.

Conflicts of interest

Written declaration before every engagement. No engagement on a site where a company related to ARTHEB Inc. is bidding or performing work.

Availability

Reply within 24 business hours. Mobilization possible within 48 hours in the Laurentides.

Integrity

If a project goes off track, you hear it from us first, with the facts and the photos.

Our team

  • 30 yearsof construction experience
  • Plumbing and heatingcommercial, institutional and industrial
  • Public sectorpublic and government clients, through competitive bidding
  • Remote regionsand multi-unit residential projects

Vigie Chantier brings together tradespeople from the field: commercial, institutional and industrial plumbing and heating, multi-unit residential projects and projects in remote regions.

The team has thirty years of construction experience, gained with public and government clients through competitive bidding. It knows from the inside what makes or breaks an institutional project: payment applications, releases, notices of contract, deficiency notices, site reports.

Vigie Chantier is based in Mont-Tremblant and serves the Laurentides, Lanaudière, the Outaouais and remote regions, as well as projects overseas.

Contact us

A 30-minute call is enough to scope your needs and receive a written proposal within 48 business hours.

For a faster reply, please tell us

  • The type of project and where it is located
  • The schedule and the stage you are at
  • Your role: firm, contractor or project owner
  • What concerns you most

Vigie Chantier

A division of ARTHEB Inc.

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2044-4, chemin du Village
Mont-Tremblant, Quebec J8E 1K4
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