For the second Summer in a row, crews are making their way through Airdrie neighbourhoods installing fibre optics.

Telus is investing $3.5 billion across Alberta to connect homes and businesses to the PureFibre network. The project in Airdrie makes up an estimated $60 million of that investment.

a Springs, Kings Heights, Big Springs, Stonegate, Highland Business Park, Canals, and Willowbrook.

Phase 2 is now underway and is expected to take until at least the end of November or early December. Work is scheduled to take place in the communities of Fairways, Sagewood, Airdrie Meadows, Edgewater, Summerhill, Waterstone, Coopers Crossing, Bayside, Meadowbrook, Thorburn, East Lake Business Park, Sunridge, Old Town, The Village, Jensen, Luxstone, Midtown, Prairie Springs, and Gateway.

Jag Kainth, Director of PureFibre Build, said there are two different ways to deploy the fibre: aerial and buried. Most of the aerial builds were finished last year and the majority of the work for this year is buried underground on the utility right of way.

Once the entire project is complete, according to Telus more than 90 per cent of Airdrie homes and businesses will be connected to the PureFibre network.

Residents can expect crews to be in their neighbourhood for approximately 12-16 weeks start to finish. Workers need permission from the home or business owner to complete work on the property and there is no cost to have it installed.

During the information session, Kainth was asked about remediation work and he explained that soft surface remediation is completed with top soil and hydroseeding. Kainth said hard surface restoration is as close to the pre-construction activity as possible.

He described an issue that presented itself with some of the remediation work last year.

"If there's any construction activity that happens in the Fall months, we know that due to snowfall and the fluctuation in temperature, the ground offsets and there's a lot of settlement issues that happen. I want to assure you that we will be back in Spring of next year, similar to what we did this year, and ensure that all the final remediation work is completed," he said.

The weather during construction so far this year has also presented a challenge, said Kainth. Heavy rain and hail has caused some damage to previously completed remediation work and as Telus is made aware of it, crews are returning to fix the damage.