As spring turns to summer, communities across Western Canada brace for potential floods and wildfires. One recent report on BC’s response to last year’s disasters calls them the ‘new normal’ and McElhanney’s emergency response teams are ready to help. McElhanney provides experienced and trusted resources to emergency response management teams in instances of floods, landslides, wildfires,…
Congratulations to Irini Akhnoukh and Anita Kyle for receiving honours at the Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers (CITE) annual meeting in Edmonton June 3 to 6 2018. Irini Akhnoukh was selected as the 2018 CITE Rising Star. The Rising Star Program recognizes members under the age of 35 who have already made an impact on…
In December, 2007 the City of Prince George experienced a rapid cold snap which resulted in an ice jam on the Nechako River. A 66-day long local state of emergency was declared and over 100 residents were evacuated from their homes.
Since 2008, McElhanney has completed over 300 assignments for Parks Canada. This includes emergency response services for major floods in Banff, Jasper, and Kootenay National Parks in 2012 and 2013, as well as avalanche cleanup in Banff National Park in 2017.
Following severe rain in June 2011, Hwy 97 experienced floods between Pine Pass and 20km south of Chetwynd (a length of 60km), with 73 damaged sites. This flooding resulted in the loss of culverts and bridge end fills, and washouts along various portions of the highway, forcing closure of this vital route.
McElhanney was presented with the 2018 Water Management Award of Excellence by the Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA) for our river diversion engineering work during the Salmon River Dam Decommissioning project. The Salmon River Dam, on Vancouver Island, was removed during the summer of 2017 and the site was re-naturalized. McElhanney provided design and…
During the summer of 2017, BC Hydro’s 60-year old creosote timber dam was completely removed from the Salmon River on Vancouver Island, and the site was re-naturalized. McElhanney designed bypass channels, cofferdams, and river diversion works to use as small a footprint as possible in this narrow and hectic worksite.
McElhanney provided surveying services to aid renovations at the library. The objective of the survey was to identify a precise location for a temporary concrete platform supporting a multi-storey crane, and to identify positions to underpin and support the load of the crane and platform.
McElhanney has added traffic data collection to our list of services in BC, further supporting the extensive transportation engineering and planning work we provide to clients across the province. This comes after the acquisition of Kamloops-based Peak Traffic Technology Ltd. McElhanney has offered traffic data collection services throughout Alberta and other parts of Western Canada for…
McElhanney’s bridge engineering group has won an ACEC-BC Award of Merit in the Transportation & Bridges category for the Veer Kunwar Singh Bridge, which crosses the River Ganges in northern India. There were 12 entries in this category from leading consultants. At 4.35km, the Veer Kunwar Singh Bridge is the world’s longest extradosed bridge. It…