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Tank Hill Interim Detour Design
After severe storms hit British Columbia in November 2021, AECOM provided emergency assistance to reinstate the Trans-Canada Highway at the Tank Hill underpass where road and rail infrastructure had been destroyed. AECOM mobilized a team to reinstate…
McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant
The McLoughlin Point WWTP is providing wastewater treatment for the first time to the Capital Regional District population, using state-of-the-art tertiary treatment processes, in a highly compact facility. Marine works included a horizontally directionally drilled…
Vancouver Island Coastal Vulnerability Study
First Nations communities on Vancouver Island are vulnerable to coastal storms and tsunamis, as well as to climate-induced sea level rise. Parsons created a unique hydrodynamic model covering 2,500 km x 2,100 km of the Pacific, superimposed with detailed local models, to identify tsunami…
Kluskus Village Domestic Water System Improvements
In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Call to Action, the Associated Engineering team adopted a Community-Circle Approach for this project. Through open dialogue and idea sharing with all stakeholders and the project team…
Maplewood Marine Restoration Project
The Maplewood Marine Restoration Project restored over 4.5 hectares of marine habitat at a site which holds cultural significance & was identified as a priority by the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. The project involved more than 230,000…
SFU Stadium
The new 1,800-seat stadium at Simon Fraser University is home to the SFU Athletics Team and a new facility for community and student events. The crowning piece of the design is a striking CLT canopy which cantilevers 16 metres, providing weather protection…
Barnard Substation Upgrade
Barnard substation was built in 1950/60’s and needed investment to meet energy demands of next 20 years and improve safety of workers and public. This project was more complex than normal because we encountered a number of significant challenges. Given the age of the facility…
St. Andrew’s Wesley United Church Heritage Conservation & Seismic Upgrade
The Church’s past was considered throughout the project, maintaining its character and fabric where practical while providing a revitalized modern-day structure. The granite and terracotta facades were repaired, restored, and seismically restrained on the exterior…
Canal Lachine Bridge
The Canal Lachine Bridge is a signature, curved, cable stayed bridge in downtown Montréal, Québec as part of the $1.5 billion Design-Build Turcot Project. The 350-m long structure uses an innovative, highly redundant composite steel grillage system…
Fast-Track Barge Terminal Development
When a new temporary marine terminal on BC’s north coast had to be designed, permitted, and installed in only ten weeks, Westmar Advisors developed a unique design that combined offshore technology with floating components to meet the fast-track schedule. The reduced…
St. Mary Low-Level Outlet Valve Replacement
Klohn Crippen Berger was contracted to replace critical reservoir control valves in the lower-level outlet at St Mary Dam, while maintaining water flows critical to the region’s agriculture industry and wildlife. Through innovative construction…
Macaulay Point Pump Station
The Capital Regional District’s new Macaulay Point Pump Station is BC’s largest municipal sewage pump station and, with a capacity of 400MLD, it can fill an Olympic size swimming pool in 9 minutes and is still optimized for daily flows. Rather than designing and selecting…
The Building Envelope Thermal Bridging Online Database
The expanded the Building Envelope Thermal Bridging (BETB) Guide includes details applicable to all Canadian climates and energy codes. A first-of-its-kind online database, ThermalEnvelope.ca, lets users can easily search over 600 building envelope details, compare approaches to mitigate thermal….
Fast + Epp Home Office
Fast+Epp’s 4-storey home office building embraces design elegance and curiosity. The building uses hybrid mass timber and steel as the structure’s fundamental building block to demonstrate material efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and sustainable construction. The space on the ground…
Infrastructure Vulnerability and Risk Assessment
Public Services Procurement Canada teamed with Tetra Tech to develop a multi-disciplinary study on the Infrastructure Vulnerability and Risk Assessment due to Changing Climate and Extreme Weather Events for the Alaska Highway. This unique solution is possibly
Taft Creek Bridge Rehabilitation
The Taft CK Bridge is a 4-span, steel girder, timber deck bridge with a total length of 68 m. The existing girders were showing signs of deterioration, and it was becoming essential to replace the timber with a concrete deck to protect the girders & pile substructure to…
CN Kitimat Subdivision Mile 9.5 Landslide Remediation
CB provided design and construction management services on the project. Timber pile installation and the relatively large fill volume across the highly disturbed, sensitive glaciomarine deposits had the potential to destabilize the slide area which required construction…
Deltaport Truck Staging Facility
The team delivered the Deltaport Truck Staging Facility (DTSF) using environmentally and culturally responsible, seismically stable, site appropriate solutions. The DTSF allows 145 container trucks with room for early arrivals and adds numerous safety improvements…
Centerm Expansion Project – Centennial Road Overpass Project
The Centennial Road Overpass Project is a 480m-long, 13-span bridge designed to reduce road congestion and improve the movement of goods to and from the Centerm container terminal at the Port of Vancouver. The overpass provides a rail and road grade separation…
Building Resiliency within a ZEV Transition Plan
As part of the City of Tucson’s bold 2030 carbon neutrality plan, GHD delivered a feasibility study for interim utilization of the Los Reales Landfill gas to power the city’s maintenance vehicle fleet and transit buses. The project’s mission was to investigate…
Gellatly Road Bridge Replacement
The new bridge and roadway provides an aesthetically-pleasing, more-resilient bridge that will mitigate impact from future flooding to Powers Creek, adjacent properties, and local accesses. Fast track construction was facilitated in off peak months and in two separate…
Mosquito Creek Bridge Replacement
The Mosquito Creek Bridge, located on Marine Drive-North Vancouver, is known as a busy and often congested east-west corridor in the North Shore Community. The City of North Vancouver engaged COWI to improve the corridor’s safety & reliability by applying industry…
Highway 99 – Ten Mile Slide Stabilization
Monitoring data indicates the completed stabilization works were very successful and Highway 99 is back into full two-lane service. The project resulted in a safe, reliable highway alignment that is the most direct connection between Lillooet and Kamloops, is essential…
Highway 1 Illecillewaet Four-Laning Value Engineering
This project offered BASIS and EAC an opportunity to develop a cohesive and efficient design for the project owner. The project team closely collaborated throughout from concept through to construction, resulting in numerous cost saving…
Roddan Lodge and Evelyne Saller Centre Redevelopment
The 11-storey redevelopment replaced and expanded housing and services designed and built to current standards. Under the City`s SRO Replacement Bylaw, self-contained studios and one and two-bedroom units replaced Roddan Lodge’s old 156 units. Featuring common….
Canada Games Aquatic Centre Infrastructure Upgrade
In line with the City’s Community Climate Action Plan, this project achieves these sustainability milestones: 36% reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions; 21% reduction in total energy use; more robust building envelope; enhanced indoor air quality in the natatorium…
Wii Gyemsiga Siwilaawksat Student Residence
Gyemsiga Siwilaawksat welcomed students in January 2022. The student residence was designed and built in 17 months using a non-traditional construction approach combining modular wood frames and mass timber. The building envelope airtightness…
Royal Columbian Hospital Mental Health and Substance Use Wellness Centre
The new facility provides: A new Energy Centre with centralized heating, cooling, and back-up power generation to serve existing facilities, as well as underground fuel and water storage in an emergency; New Mental Health and Substance Use Wellness…
Williams Lake Net Zero Energy Building
The 1,500m2 MCFD retrofit project in Williams Lake is BC’s first pilot project to trial the design and construction of a ground-breaking Net Zero Energy building. TWD and Energy Revolution Services worked with Thibodeau Architecture + Design and the client to develop…
Highline Metrotown
Horizon Engineering is proud to be a part of the design build team that brought this geotechnically complex and world class development to fruition. Horizon’s collaboration with the project team resulted in innovative geotechnical design solutions which allowed…
Lougheed Highway Upgrades
The City of Burnaby required engineering and landscape architecture services for the design and construction of road works and improvements on Lougheed Highway. This project involved a combination of pavement rehabilitation, road narrowing…
CRD Core Area Wastewater Treatment Plant Conveyance System
The Core Area Wastewater Treatment Plant (CAWTP) Conveyance System connects two treatment facilities operating within the Capital Regional District’s (CRD) recently constructed WWTP. This Conveyance System is considered one of the longest sludge transfer…
Celina DAF Retrofit Project
AWC was awarded the Celina DAF Retrofit Project to deliver four dissolved air filtration units within an aggressive timeline and penalties for late delivery & rework. A team was assembled (at the outbreak of COVID) with old and new members to work remotely…
United Boulevard Recycling and Waste Centre
The United Boulevard Recycling and Waste Centre is one of the most comprehensive solid waste facilities in North America. It demonstrates that large structures can be successfully developed on challenging closed landfill sites using advance structural, mechanical…
University of British Columbia Water Pump Station
As the largest and oldest university in British Columbia, UBC saw a need to renew its existing pump station to serve the growing campus of nearly 60,000 people. Stantec provided multi-disciplinary services for a new pump station to supply stable water supply to the campus…
Kanaka Creek Bridge Seismic Retrofit
The Kanaka Creek is designated as a Major Route structure and forms part of the BCMoTI’s critical route in response to a disaster. There are five lanes of traffic, two northbound lanes to Maple Ridge and three southbound lanes to Albion…
Compass Implementation on HandyDART
Binnie was engaged by TransLink to manage the implementation of Compass— TransLink’s contactless fare collection system—on HandyDART. This project involved significant engagement and communications efforts, installing equipment on the buses, developing and implementing a technical solution…
Computational Design of the BART Silicon Valley Single-Bore Transit Tunnel
In California, the transformative BART Silicon Valley Project is expanding the BART network through Santa Clara County, to “ring the Bay” with rapid transit and to reduce congestion and emissions. Mott MacDonald’s computational design approach supported the defining engineering feature…
Capital Regional District Core Area Wastewater Treatment Project
The Capital Regional District’s largest infrastructure program saw nine major capital projects delivered in four years, on time and budget. Stantec provided planning, technical support, and Owner’s Engineer services to deliver a new 108 ML/d tertiary treatment and biosolids treatment facility…
Northwest Vancouver Island Tsunami Risk Assessment – Phase I
Maps were created that show the tsunami hazards, including the extent of how flooding affects communities (Figure 3) and how fast current speeds will put mariners out on the water at risk (Figure 4). Results also include tsunami arrival times, which on the open west coast of Vancouver Island…
UBC Djavad Mowafaghian Centre of Brain Health Cryo-Electron Microscope Hub
This UBC and Vancouver Coastal Health project installed three new electron microscopes in the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre of Brain Health’s basement. MCW designed mechanical and electrical renovations to the support control and equipment room space to accommodate the new microscopes. UBC’s research team…
Harrison River Bridge Pier 5 Timber Fender Renewal
Harrison River Bridge is a 2-lane, 9-span bridge, 314m long and built in 1956. A movable bridge, the swing span has 2 steel girders supported by a turntable on Pier 5. The pier is protected by a timber fender system with extensive decay. Mott MacDonald oversaw…
H-Frame Elimination Program
The H-Frame removal project consisted of BC Hydro removing over 350 H-Frame wooden poles with overhead wires and electrical equipment from Downtown Vancouver to improve reliability and safety concerns. The H-Frames are replaced with underground services in easy-access vaults…
Site C Temporary Debris Boom
To construct the Site C Dam, the Peace River has been diverted through two tunnels. A temporary debris boom was put in place to catch debris upstream of the diversion tunnels to prevent potential blockage. The debris boom installed is unlike a traditional debris boom because….
Minton Lake Dam Rehabilitation
The original water level was maintained following the construction which allowed local use and land impoundment to be maintained. It meets the latest dam safety guidelines and is designed to safely pass water during the design flood without manual gate operation. The removal of the manual gate…
Multi-Purpose Booms in BC Hydro Reservoirs
The Klohn Crippen Berger and Hatch team developed a new boom design for BC Hydro that vastly improved functionality and durability versus traditional booms. The result is…
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