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BC Hydro sought to improve its ability to respond to a potential abnormal loading condition with high consequences, at one of its hydroelectric facilities. An excessive transient penstock pressure surge following a failure of the generating unit’s pressure…
TransAlta’s Cascade Hydroelectric Facility in Banff National Park contained a corroded steel penstock from 1942. Installed in fall 2024, Klohn Crippen Berger applied CFRP lining to strengthen the structure and improve the performance of the penstock.
The Site C Clean Energy Project is a hydroelectric generating station that began providing power to the BC provincial grid in 2024. Site C provides a reliable, long-term source of sustainable generation to power the equivalent of 450,000 homes.
The Galloping Goose Regional Trail Bridge Improvement project includes replacement and repair of 4 existing bridges to provide safe, resilient, and accessible new infrastructure for the community with the ability to meet anticipated future demands.
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…
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…
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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The Bear Creek Dam Reservoir is the upstream storage reservoir for the Jordan River Project on Vancouver Island. Constructed in the 1970s, the Bear Creek Reservoir was designed as an as-needed water supply for the downstream Jordan River Diversion Dam…
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In 2015, Blackbird Infrastructure 407 General Partnership signed a $1.2 billion contract with Infrastructure Ontario to design, build, finance, and maintain the Highway 407 East Phase 2 Project. The project extends Highway 407 to the east approximately 22 kilometres, from Harmony Road in Oshawa to Highway 35/115…
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Lois Lake Dam is a 59 m high double curvature arch dam with a crest length of 200 m and a thrust block supporting its right abutment. A gated intake is at the base of the dam’s body and its gate hoist steel tower is supported on the crest. A structurally independent spillway with six radial gates is on the right bank…
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The Nechako Reservoir was created in 1953 to supply water to the 896 MW Kemano Hydroelectric Generating Station, which provides power to Rio Tinto’s aluminum smelter at Kitimat. The Skins Lake Spillway is located approximately 200 km west of Prince George, British Columbia.