A significant component of our work is in the industrial, civil, underground services and subdivision services sectors, including pulp mills, water reservoirs, mines and dry docks.
Westmin Resources operates this lead, zinc, copper, gold and silver underground mine. The ore is mined at a depth of 1500 feet, is conveyed to the surface, and is processed to extract the minerals. Afterwards the resultant rock waste slurry, called tailings, is piped to a containment area and stored on dry land. We constructed the 45 acres of tailings ponds, requiring diversion and relocation of mountain creeks and valley rivers, along with extensive underground drainage piping in order to restrict the tailings from leeching into the ecologically sensitive river and adjacent lake.
For several decades we have constructed civil works within the Elk Falls Pulp and Paper Mill in Campbell River.
Through the construction of the Deception Creek Dam in the Sooke Lake Watershed,
the Greater Victoria Area was able to increase its potable water storage
capacity by one third. We constructed the quarter mile long dam, constructed
from 300,000 m3 of material, with a grouted cut-off curtain down to bedrock,
a till core, and gravel chimneys.
We constructed two sections of the ALRT substructure, one at Metrotown in Burnaby, and one adjacent to the B.C. Place Stadium.
This state of the art $6 m control tower was constructed for Defence Construction Canada at the airbase at Comox, B.C.
Spanning the Inner Harbour, the Bay Street Bridge joins Victoria with Esquimalt.
This $7 million transit bus maintenance facility was constructed under a construction management contract with B.C. Transit.
We
have performed many projects on this site, one of the largest dry docks
on the west coast of North America. We constructed the crane rail foundations
and support caissons for the 150 tonne Krupp Gantry crane; rebuilt the main
pump house and penstock gates, and installed the high mast lighting.
This
building houses the battery re-charging equipment for our Navy's submarine
fleet, as well as managing hazardous materials and chemicals.
We formed and poured 8,000 cubic meters of concrete to create spillways, overflows and control structures to raise the Sooke dam for the Greater Victoria Water District.
