Case Study
Ellesmere Island Operations & Maintenance
PROJECT PROFILE ELLESMERE ISLAND OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE NOW THAT'S REMOTE We often talk about working in remote locations and austere environments, and the Australian Outback and the deserts of Saudi Arabia can be pretty austere. But nothing really compares to working in temperatures hovering around -40° Celsius (or -71° Celsius when the wind kicks up). There’s a reason we stress that operating in the North and maintaining assets in the Arctic is no small feat. CFS Alert, Nunavut is the most northern permanently inhabited settlement in the world. It’s situated on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic, approximately 817 km from the geographic North SNAPSHOT Date: 2012 - Present Location: Alert, Northwest Territories, Canada Client: Public Works and Government