While skyscrapers and buildings are the crown jewels of cityscapes and horizons, the unheralded upholder of all construction is the ground and foundation—without sufficient coverage (and depth) of borings or soundings, or determining the characteristics and strength properties of the on-site soils, a project is doomed before it has even begun. Menard [...]
FortisBC Plans Major Expansion of Tilbury LNC Facility to Improve Gas System Resiliency and Meet Demand By Tina Costanza An expansion to increase storage and meet rising demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) is in the works at FortisBC’s Tilbury LNG facility in Delta, B.C. The Tilbury Phase 2 LNG Expansion project [...]
By Anna Guy Since its inception in 1998, Rigstar has connected people in remote locations with vital telecommunication services, empowering its clients with the ability to safely live and work across North America. Over the course of two decades, Rigstar has emerged as an industry-leading telecom service provider by delivering agnostic fibre, [...]
Saskatchewan is an energy giant, with the most diverse primary energy resource base in Canada. Premier Scott Moe’s government espouses investing in infrastructure that promotes clean energy solutions to creating a strong low-carbon economy and sustainable future. The Chinook Power Station, which went online in December 2019, is a big piece of the puzzle [...]
Supporting Energy Development Land: It’s our biggest resource. But companies must go down the proper channels to access and use land in the appropriate way for development projects. This complex process is made simpler for many of Canada’s biggest companies by Canada West Land Services. For many of Canada’s biggest industries, particularly [...]
Cornerstone of the Oil Sands A cornerstone of the oil sands, the joint venture undertaking among Imperial Oil Resources Limited; CNOOC Oil Sands Canada; Sinopec Oil Sands Partnership; and Suncor Energy Inc., makes Syncrude one of the largest producers of synthetic crude oil from oil sands in the world. As Syncrude passes [...]
Bringing Quality Engineering To Western Canada The Keywest Projects Ltd. team is behind some of Western Canada’s largest oil and gas projects—but it’s the team’s community mindedness and record for exceptionally executed projects that are its biggest accomplishments. Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2019, Keywest, a privately-owned Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Management (EPCM) company, [...]
By Anna Guy E nabling Canadians to make renewable energy use the de facto option is an important endeavor, one that many of Canada’s brightest companies are making a priority. As a stand out in electrical engineering in power systems for renewable energy projects, in the province with far and away the strongest renewable [...]
By Anna Guy When it comes to the most environmentally sensitive and complex pipeline projects in the country, companies like Enbridge and TransCanada turn to Innovative Pipeline Crossings (IPC). For instance, as a part of the 2015 Enbridge GTA project, a nearly $1 billion, large diameter gas pipeline being constructed in the greater Toronto [...]
Doing Things the Right Way Click to view Brochure By Anna Guy For Mark Bartkoski, mining is more than a career. It’s a chosen vehicle through which he fulfills his quest, as he calls it, to add value to families. Through his 40 years in mining, Bartkoski has both the insight and hindsight to [...]