Engineering Activities

Civil and Earthworks

Met-Chem has carried out a wide variety of heavy industrial projects in Canada and overseas which have included feasibility studies and environmental impact assessments, detailed design of equipment support and foundations, structures, roads, bridges, marine structures, docks and associated building and storage facilities. Met-Chem's design philosophy is based on using state-of-the-art computer design techniques in support of sound experience and conventional design.

Met-Chem has used innovative design techniques on a variety of applications such as:

• Reinforced earth technique for high retaining walls around a dump pocket for 180 tonne dump trucks;
• Geotextile application as a cost effective alternative to graded stone fill;
• Pre-stressing of underlying rock layers using pre-stressed rock anchors to stabilize the rock under a large conveyor transfer house on a steep incline;
• Stabilizing vertical piles, supporting a 9,000 HP autogenous mill, and using lateral pre-stressed soil anchors.
• Use of column jacking for a heavy building column foundation to compensate for settlement. This provided a cost effective solution to the alternative of piled foundations in a difficult location;
• Sub foundation-strengthening techniques such as rock pre-stressing with rock anchors, pre-loading and vibro compaction;
• Construction of access roads, bridges and viaducts, airport runways.

Expertise:

• Earthworks
• Excavation and Backfill
• Piling
• Rock Anchoring