In spite of area residents’ complaints, there will be few changes to the handling and cleanup of polystyrene foam insulation being installed at a seniors building under construction.

“Until we’re told we have to do something different, what are we supposed to do?” PFC Constructors Inc. project manager Vincent Marando told Sudbury.com.

“If you’re running your business, and you’re doing everything according to the law, are you going to incur costs that go above and beyond?”

Aside from installing more fencing around the property, Marando said nothing else is going to change at the construction site. Polystyrene foam will continue being installed during the next three weeks just as it has been, with another two walls of the six-sided building to be covered.

The city has also ordered the company to clean out two catch basins and install filters on them.

Best known by its brand name, Styrofoam, fragments of polystyrene foam from the construction site has been “snowing” onto the Minnow Lake residential neighbourhood which the six-storey building overlooks, prompting various complaints from area residents.

The problem, Marando explained, is that once the material is installed at the side of the building, it has to be “rasped level,” which requires crews to shave it flush across the side of the building. Wind proceeds to blow away chunks and small beads of the light material.

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