Structure

STRUCTURAL DESIGN SERVICES

• Management and coordination of geotechnical engineering
• Various types of foundations including:
  • Dynamic equipment foundations
  • Deep and shallow foundations
  • Shell and tube exchanger foundations
  • Process column foundations
  • Stack foundations
• Foundations in all types of soil including soft clays, tar sands, liquefiable soils and permafrost
• Concrete structures including tabletops, one-way and two-way slabs
• Structural steel including:
  • Process towers
  • Pipe racks and pipe supports
  • Industrial Buildings
  • Mill buildings
  • Crane runway girders and support structure
  • Access platforms, ladders, cages and stairs

PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTION SERVICES

• Approval of shop drawings
• On site construction supervision
  • Proactive supervision
  • Rebar and formwork inspection
  • Concrete workmanship supervision
  • Structural erection supervision
  • Analysis of equivalent material proposed by contractors
  • Management and coordination of the geotechnical engineer
  • Completion of daily reports on activities held on site
  • Surveys of completed works
• Preparation of « AS BUILT » drawings

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

• Modular design
• Steel fabrication management
• Blast retrofitting and design

PROJECT TYPES

• Greenfield and brownfield projects
• Retrofit of existing structures
• New buildings, foundations and structural steel required to house, support, operate and allow maintenance of all types of industrial equipment

Software used

Advance Design America® and SAP 2000® : Structural modeling, finite elements and design

SAFE®: Concrete Slab and Foundation modeling, finite elements and design

Hilti Profis®: Anchor Design

Shape Builder®: Miscellaneous and built-up shape properties