GEOMATICS

Since our expansion into Alberta and North-East British Columbia in the 1970s, we’ve been offering full cycle services from application to reclamation in the resource industry. With a quality driven approach and an ability to adapt to a variety of workloads, we’re able to successfully complete any project that comes our way.

McElhanney’s Construction Services offer an adaptive and modern approach. Using only the best technology, we guide the commercial and industrial construction of new roads, buildings and structures, working closely with our clients.

We have participated in thousands of kilometres of successful transmission and other linear infrastructure projects throughout Western Canada. We offer a wide variety of services to support these initiatives, and back them up with teams of highly skilled technical staff.

Since 1910 McElhanney’s team of Professional Surveyors and technicians has been providing the mining sector with surveying and mapping support throughout Canada and Internationally. From mineral tenure review and government consultation to engineering survey support McElhanney offers the following services in house providing our clients with all the geomatics services necessary to take a mining project from exploration to operation:

See also:

• Mining & Mineral Exploration Services Brochure

Our team of professional surveyors provide a full range of survey services for roads, highways, trails, and transit systems. Our surveyors have worked on some of the largest transportation projects in Western Canada in recent years including the Trans Canada Trail, Southwest Calgary Ring Road and North-East Stoney Trail, Sea to Sky Highway, Edmonton’s Valley LRT and Vancouver’s Expo, Millennium, Canada Line and Evergreen Rapid transit projects, Golden Ears and Port Mann bridge projects and South Fraser Perimeter Road to name a few. We provide the following high-quality geomatics services to Private Industry, Governments and Engineering consultants alike:

Our line locating crews use the latest equipment and technology to perform numerous types of locating jobs throughout the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Our pipeline and utility locating services include:

• Locating and marking underground facilities for new pipeline and well construction.
• Service station reclamation locating.
• Well or pipeline abandonment and reclamation locating.
• Sign installation
• One Call locating to ensure ground disturbance is clear of buried facilities.
• Verification that environmental test holes or dig sites are not in conflict with any underground facilities.
• Staking for integrity digs.

See below for our complementary services for comprehensive ground disturbance packages and One Call support that help to keep your team safe and focused on your project schedules.

We have the expertise and tools to help you conduct ground disturbance activities as safely as possible. We provide our clients with comprehensive ground disturbance packages, so your projects are planned and executed with the utmost regard to safety. Ground disturbance packages include:

• Current regulatory information on all pipelines, wells, and facilities within the proximity of the defined work area.
• Aerial and satellite photography of the site.
• All title documentation associated with land.
• Individual ownership plans acquired through title searches.
• All survey plans for the land.

Whether it’s an excavation for a major construction site, a new pipeline, or simply a landowner building fencing for livestock, any time equipment strikes the ground there is potential for conflict with buried pipelines and utilities. Our strong focus on the safety of people performing excavation has led to a comprehensive group of services related to managing ground disturbance. We manage Alberta, BC, and Saskatchewan One Calls generated by provincial One Call corporations on behalf of numerous companies so that they can focus on their priorities. We can offer you:

• Monthly updates to Alberta One Call Corporation, BC One Call, and Sask 1st Call with your pipeline data. Using regulatory data and other information, we track new pipelines, acquisitions, and divestitures so the right pipelines are in the system.
• One Call submissions on your behalf. We provide the information to One Call organizations, then receive associated correspondence and ensure that all necessary clearances are received before work commences.
• One Call screening services so your staff can focus on what they do best instead of talking with contractors and landowners. Our experienced One Call staff handle the phone calls and compile the required information to determine if planned ground disturbance will be in conflict with your buried facilities.
• Clear communication once the situation is determined so you know what has transpired – this includes maps showing the location of the planned work in relation to their facilities.
• Constant communication with the person or company planning the ground disturbance. If there is potential conflict with buried facilities, we direct them to hold off on work until your facilities have been located and marked.
• Swift dispatch of field crews to get the job done within the requirements of the One Call system.