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ENGINEERING

Our award-winning engineers embrace the trailblazing spirit of our founder, W.G. McElhanney, by challenging conventional thinking, questioning the status-quo and expressing our passion to use engineering to make the world a better place.

We recognize that our projects must serve the interests of our communities for the long term. From senior management to our most junior recruits, we are partners in solving our clients’ challenges. For over a century, as McElhanney evolved, we have added expertise in specialized fields to suit our clients’ needs. Today we offer a complete range of engineering and related services to meet almost any requirement.

Municipal Infrastructure
Water Resources
Transportation
Bridges
Land Development
Geotechnical
Materials Testing
Structural
Construction Management
Electrical
Sustainability, Climate Resilience & Asset Management

MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE

McElhanney has a long history of partnering with municipalities on all aspects of infrastructure planning, design, and construction projects.

We offer an integrated approach to projects through the collaboration of our engineering, contract administration, environmental, planning, and landscape architecture specialists.

McElhanney provides a diverse range of municipal infrastructure services including:

Road design, including intersections, round-abouts, as well as multi-modal and “complete streets” design.
Underground infrastructure, including watermains, sanitary / storm sewers, and combined sewer separation. You can learn more about these services on our water resources engineering page.
Infrastructure planning, including computational modeling and public and stakeholder engagement.
Facility design including treatment plants, pumping stations, and reservoirs. You can learn more about these services on our water and wastewater infrastructure page.
Construction management, contract administration, and inspection services.
Street beautification and streetscape design.

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WATER RESOURCES

McElhanney has established expertise in water resources planning and engineering for any scale of project. From watershed assessments to site specific improvements, our team can provide a wide range of services including:

River and hydrotechnical engineering
Infrastructure planning and renewal
Stormwater management and green infrastructure

Visit our water resources engineering page to learn more about our projects.

TRANSPORTATION

Our transportation team provides a full range of services for roads, highways, trails, and transit systems. We set our work apart by beginning with the end in mind, and having in-depth design guideline knowledge to take projects through every design stage, tendering, construction supervision, and contract administration. Our transportation services include:

Highway traffic counts and analysis
Transportation planning
Transportation network modelling and forecasting
Intersection and interchange modelling
Traffic impact analysis
Route selection
Highway and interchange design
Highway drainage design
Construction detour design and traffic management plans
Parking studies
Business casing

Guide signing design and pavement marking design
Signal timing optimization
Roundabouts and traffic circle design
Pedestrian and wildlife crossing design
Retaining wall design
Resource access road design
Bicycle path and mountain bike trail design
Road safety audits and engineering,
Pavement condition assessments
Asset inventories and management

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BRIDGES

Our bridge team’s experience includes everything from short-span creek crossings to long-span, complex highway bridges. We have completed major projects in Canada and the US. We provide our services to owners on conventional design-bid-build projects and contractors in fast-paced P3 / design-build environments. With practical experience in planning, construction, and engineering of bridges, we can develop concepts around practical means of construction from the start to deliver fully integrated solutions tailored to each project. Our specialties include:

Bridge planning and conceptual design
Bridge hydrotechnical design and river training works
Long-span cable-stayed and suspension bridges
Short- and medium-span concrete and steel bridges
Bridge launching and construction engineering
Bridge deconstruction design
Bridge assessment, rehabilitation, and load evaluation services

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LAND DEVELOPMENT

McElhanney offers many complementary services to meet the needs of our land development clients, including in-house expertise in civil engineering, structural engineering, environmental assessments, landscape architecture, and surveying. We take pride in arriving at innovative design solutions – addressing many aspects of a typical land development project. We apply our knowledge of local regulatory processes to assist our clients in navigating municipal development approvals. We apply these services all projects of all sizes, from 10-lot developments to complex 1600+ unit developments. Our most popular land development services include:

Community plan preparation
Subdivision layout and servicing design
Development approvals
Tendering and construction engineering

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GEOTECHNICAL

From planning and design through to construction, McElhanney’s qualified geotechnical engineers deliver the analysis and recommendations to address site needs. We operate in all market sectors including municipal, oil and gas, transportation, and the resource industry on projects of all sizes. Major services we provide include:

Geotechnical foundation engineering
Geotechnical site investigations
Drilling coordination, supervision, and sampling
Pavement evaluation and condition assessments
Aggregate resource evaluation
Pit development plans

Geological hazard assessments
Terrain mapping
Terrain assessments
Slope stability analysis
Geotechnical monitoring

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Mining & Mineral Exploration Services

MATERIALS TESTING

McElhanney has in-house materials testing laboratories throughout BC to deliver prompt, locally focused materials testing services. Complementing our local laboratories, our fleet of mobile laboratories enables our qualified technicians to provide responsive on-site services, even in remote areas. We offer our services for the following project needs:

Construction aggregate testing
Soil and concrete testing
Asphalt testing

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Mining & Mineral Exploration Services

STRUCTURAL

Our structural engineers provide designs for industrial, institutional, commercial, and high-end residential structures. Additionally, we offer highly specialized structural, mechanical, and civil engineering services to the recreation and mountain resort industry, including ski-lifts and trail bridges. Our expertise includes:

Building design
Industrial structural design and analysis, including sign structure design
Structural design for utilities
Recreation design, including passenger ropeway, ski-lift, and amusement ride design
Noise and retaining walls design; shoring design
Connections designs, including guardrails, platforms, and stairs
Arctic structure design
Construction inspections and engineering support
Building condition assessment

Click here to learn more about our Trails, Tourism, Recreation, & Parks Services

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CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

We provide construction management services for a wide array of clients and projects, including municipal infrastructure, water and sewer, highways, roads, bridges, and interchanges. Our construction management staff are a trusted and essential component of the project delivery team for our clients; taking the project from concept and constructability, through tendering and construction, to completion and implementation. Our services include:

Value analysis and value engineering
Constructability and construction staging
Tendering and construction contract administration
Quality assurance
Claim review, mitigation, and resolution
Emergency repairs, and federal disaster financial assistance reporting for cost recovery

ELECTRICAL

Our electrical engineers offer bright solutions to power businesses and advance communities. We work with industrial, commercial, and institutional clients on a variety of electrical projects. Whether it is a new design, a system study, or an existing system upgrade, our main focus is to ensure that systems remain safe, reliable, and efficient. We provide tailored electrical solutions across a range of markets and industries. These services include:

Electrical project management – scope development through to construction
Technical troubleshooting
Commercial, industrial and residential building electrical systems
Fire and life safety system
Standby power systems
Contractor and construction management

Indoor, outdoor, street and traffic lighting and control
Instrumentation and control
Power generation and distribution
Balance of plant design
Building management system design
Facility assessment
Network analysis including load flow, short circuit, arc flash and protection coordination studies

We are members of the BC Hydro Power Smart Alliance Group.

SUSTAINABILITY, CLIMATE RESILIENCE & ASSET MANAGEMENT

Sustainability is integral to what we do. McElhanney offers a comprehensive suite of sustainability, climate resilience, and asset management services designed to address the unique, multi-faceted challenges our clients face – both today and into the future.

Through our integrated approach, we empower communities and organizations to thrive in a changing world. Learn more about our Sustainability, Climate Resilience & Asset Management Services here.