Turnaround planning
Scope development, work-package build, schedule modelling, resource loading, and pre-turnaround readiness reviews. Everything the window needs, decided before the window opens.
Capability
Planned and emergency shutdown support — scoped, scheduled, crewed, pre-staged, and closed out inside the window you committed to. When a unit is offline, every day has a number attached to it. KBIM's job is to make that number smaller.
Overview
A day of lost production at a 350 MW generating unit is worth mid-six-figures. At a major upgrader, seven. A turnaround that slips by a week isn't an inconvenience — it's the worst financial event of the operating year. KBIM plans around that math.
KBIM has been running turnaround and shutdown scopes across Alberta's heaviest industry for nearly fifty years. Primary gearbox rebuilds in aggregate plants. Full mechanical scopes on cogeneration facilities. Life-extension shutdowns on 350 MW power units. SAGD plant turnarounds. Pulp-mill outages. Upgrader maintenance windows. The scope is different every time. The discipline isn't.
Every turnaround runs on the same playbook: over-plan, over-staff, pre-stage everything, and treat the schedule as a contract — not a projection. We can be booked into a shutdown window 12–24 months out with a committed crew size, scope, and finish date. Tooling, rigging, fabricated spools, and consumables are pre-staged in the laydown yard before the window opens. When scope expands mid-window (and on a real unit, it always does), we extend crew to hold the end-date — we don't push the completion date to accommodate an added find.
One phone number through the planning cycle. One crew through the window. One close-out package through the hand-back. One accountable contractor for the millwright scope, the fabrication, the mechanical work, and — if you want it — the project management wrapped around all of it. On time. On spec. Through the window.
What's included
Six disciplines that show up on almost every shutdown. All under one roof, one contract, one accountable point of failure — not five vendors finger-pointing when the schedule slips.
Scope development, work-package build, schedule modelling, resource loading, and pre-turnaround readiness reviews. Everything the window needs, decided before the window opens.
The core KBIM execution scope: rotating equipment overhauls, alignment, gearbox rebuilds, pump & motor work, conveyor drive rebuilds, and every millwright discipline the turnaround calls for.
Pipe spools fabricated to ASME code, structural modifications, skid builds, replacement chutes and hoppers — all pre-built in the shop, pre-tested, and delivered ready to rig in.
Engineered lift plans, certified riggers, hydraulic gantries, skidding & jacking, and critical-lift coordination for the heaviest pieces in the plant.
Line boring, flange facing, on-unit grinding, journal repair, and the on-deck machine work that would otherwise mean pulling the asset and shipping it out of province.
Witnessed reassembly, alignment confirmation, hydrostatic & pressure testing, system flushes, baseline vibration & thermal, and supported start-up through first-fire / first-run.
How we work
A turnaround doesn't start when the unit comes offline. It starts 12–24 months before, in a planning room. By the time the window opens, every scope, every tool, every lift is already decided.
Walk-downs, work-pack development, schedule modelling, resource loading, long-lead parts ordered, engineering commissioned. All of it dated against the window opening.
Tooling, rigging, fabricated spools, consumables, replacement components — staged in the laydown yard, tagged to work packs, verified against the plan. Nothing shows up on day one.
Unit isolated, crew on-deck, scope running on plan. Daily schedule reviews, scope-change protocol ready for the inevitable finds, extra crew on standby — because holding the end-date is non-negotiable.
Reassembly witnessed, alignment confirmed, pressure tests signed, start-up supported, and the close-out package — every measurement, every sign-off, every deviation — handed to your reliability team.
Scale & capacity
The difference between a shutdown that holds its schedule and one that slips is what shows up in the laydown yard the morning the window opens. Here's what we bring.
Red Seal · rotation-ready
Mobile shops · welding · parts
To 100-ton · engineered lifts
Line boring · flange facing
20-ton crane · pre-built spools
Pruftechnik · SKF · to 0.0005"
Baseline + as-left capture
Tagged · verified · ready
Proof of work
A 350 MW generating unit came into a major life-extension shutdown with an original outage estimate pushing past two months of worst-case. KBIM was handed the scope. The crew delivered the unit back to the operator in 51 days — two full weeks ahead of worst-case — with zero lost-time incidents and every inspection signed off on the first walk.
Full mechanical scope across a 350-megawatt generating unit with turbine, generator, boiler-feed, and cooling-tower work inside a single shutdown window.
Crew size ramped to 70+ ticketed millwrights at peak execution, running day & night shifts across multiple concurrent scopes to hold the end-date.
Unit handed back to the operator 14 days ahead of the worst-case plan — an estimated $13.4M of avoided-downtime upside vs. the originally-planned outage duration.
70 crew · multi-shift · 51 days · zero LTIs. Every JSA reviewed, every lock-out verified, every lift engineered — safety record matched the production record.
Every critical inspection — alignment, weld quality, torque records, pressure tests — signed off on the first walk. No rework. No re-open. No schedule hit.
Representative figures — every turnaround is different. But the playbook that got this one back early is the same one that goes out on every window we run.
Safety & compliance
A turnaround is the highest-risk operating environment an industrial plant sees all year — multiple trades, concurrent scopes, energy-isolated equipment, critical lifts, and a compressed schedule pushing everyone to move faster. This is where cutting corners kills people. KBIM's non-negotiable rule: the only acceptable finish is the one where everyone walks off the site.
COR
Certificate of Recognition
ISNetworld
Contractor prequalified
ComplyWorks
Audit & compliance
Avetta
Supply chain verified
WCB AB
Good standing
Red Seal
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