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Engineering Activities

Structural Steel

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 supports and foundations, structures, 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's expertise in civil / structural engineering includes:

  • Heavy and light industrial building frame design to optimise cost and schedule constraints;
  • Application of pre-engineered building where cost effective;
  • Port berthing facilities;
  • Various mine facilities such as mine dispatch buildings, explosives magazines, shops, warehouses, A-frame storage facilities;
  • A-Frame and Dome storage facilities;
  • Inspection of structural steel members in existing buildings.

Met-Chem has used innovative design techniques on a variety of applications such as the use of fiberglass as a cost-effective alternative to a steel conveyor gallery frame in a corrosive seaside environment.

Expertise:

  • Steel Buildings
  • Transfer Towers
  • Conveyor Galleries
  • Warehouses
  • Tanks
  • Thickeners
  • Mine Shafts