Civil

Background The Coquitlam Dam is located on the Coquitlam River, 15 km (9.3 mi) upstream from its confluence with the Fraser River near the city of Port Coquitlam. The Dam provides additional storage and flows, which are diverted via a tunnel to Buntzen Lake and then to the Buntzen Generating Station. Coquitlam Lake is also … Read More

Background The Boyden Tunnel is a pedestrian tunnel located at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMASS) . This passageway connects the athletic building with the schools’ practice fields. Deterioration and severe water intrusion within the tunnel forced the university to close it to pedestrian traffic. The tunnel measures 165’ long 10’ high and 15’ wide … Read More

Background Made possible through generous local donations, the Greenwich Family YMCA in Connecticut was granted construction approval of a new Olympic pool as the centerpiece for its new state of the art Olympic Aquatics Center.  Completed earlier this year, the pool measures 50-meters by 25-meters (164 feet  by 72 feet) and is opened for recreation, … Read More

Keeping Markham’s Community Clean with a Sturdy Waste Management Facility Background While Miller Waste Systems Inc.’s waste management facilities were thriving in the late 2000s, the company wasn’t as impressed with their facility floors. Those concrete slabs just didn’t have the right amount of resistance to surface abrasion and the intense weight from dump trucks … Read More

Background The Canal Santa Lucia is a 2.5 km (1.5 mile) long 1.2 m deep artificial river in the heart of Monterrey, Mexico. The canal is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Monterrey and features fountains, bridges, murals and restaurants along the waterway. When constructing the second phase of the canal that would … Read More

Saving an Owner $69,000 with Cost-Effective Waterproofing Background In the late 2000s, Alghanim Industries chose to build a new garage for their business. Valued at $45 million, this structure was set to be one of the largest garage facilities in the world. It would be extensive enough to service and park over 1,000 cars on … Read More

Background Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is undergoing a $200-million expansion of the International Terminal. To give the project a British Columbia outdoors feel, a man-made stream runs from the new aircraft gates through the centre of the building. At the end of the stream, a huge aquarium has been installed featuring native BC sea life … Read More

Background Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is Canada’s second busiest airport and North America’s second largest international passenger gateway on the West Coast with over 16 million passengers each year. YVR is located in Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver, at the mouth of the Fraser River, where the highest land point elevation is 1.8 meter (six … Read More

Background The Krabbersgat-locks at Enkhuizen are the Netherlands’ busiest recreation locks. This unique structure is called a Naviduct and is the world’s first and only combination of an aqueduct and a ship lock. Because the bridge, located in the Enkhuizen-Lelystad dike, has to be opened for almost every ship, long waiting times are a regular … Read More

Background Located on the Dubai waterfront, Dubai Drydocks is one of the largest in the world. The shipyard employs more than 5,000 workers and as many as 1,500 subcontractors. More than 5,000 vessels and oil rigs have been built, repaired and maintained at the facility since it opened in 1983. A vessel requiring repairs at … Read More