PROJECTS | engineering

project types

The range of expertise available - extending through mechanical, process, instrumentation and control, and low voltage electrical - allowed our resources to execute projects or specific tasks for a variety of industries: water and wastewater, nuclear fuel handling controls, heating and steam generating stations, hydrocarbon fuel handling and dispensing facilities, food production.
The tasks performed ranged from scoping through developing and evaluating requests for proposals (RFPs), preliminary design, instrumentation and control system (I&CS) detail design, tendering documents, field services and commissioning, to documentation standardization, design management and project management
The examples listed below represent only a fraction of the achievements as I&CS design lead if not otherwise noted.

water and wastewater

Water pollution control plants (WPCP) - upgrades / expansions:

Ashbridges Bay, Toronto ($20M construction, $10M engineering) plant-wide control system upgrade – design manager, devised a new design methodology and an unique tender package configuration
Ottawa-Carleton (ROPEC – $365M construction, $38M engineering), control building, final clarifiers, and outfall
Clarkson ($10M construction) inlet works, primary clarifiers, upgrade from coarse to fine bubble aeration with DO control, RAS/WAS pump controls and chlorination

WPCPs - new:

Loudoun County Sanitation Authority, USA ($140M construction) - tertiary treatment plant
Moncton – design built

Sewage pumping stations (SPS) - upgrades / expansions:

Hazeldean, Levack, Espanola, Jerseyville, Black Creek Berry Rd. – Niagara area , Bayly Rd. - Pickering, , Leslie St.- Markham (due diligence)
Green Lane – Newmarket ($0.8M construction) - as owner’s project manager

SPSs - new:

Combined sewer overflow (equalization) tanks - new:

Hamilton ($22M construction), L.B. Pearson Airport, Mill Creek ($2.3M construction)
Newmarket ($10M construction), Aurora ($16M construction) – as owner’s project manager

Water supply, treatment plants (WTP) - upgrades / expansions:

Georgina phase 2 ($10M construction), doubling peak capacity of membrane plant to 40ML/day - as owner’s project manager
Cochrane ($6.7M construction), full replacement of the old plant
Welland, Mount Albert, Southampton
Decew Falls Water Treatment Plant SCADA upgrade I&C QA/QC

WTPs - new:

Water towers/reservoirs – new:

nuclear power

CANDU Fuel Handling System:

Major contributor to the design of the fuel handling system (FHS) instrumentation and control equipment for the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 built in Romania under Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL) license
Development coordination of the FHS control system for same project, production of working/shop drawings using indigenous parts within CANDU license envelope and preparation of Design Deviation Requests for AECL’s approval
Design lead for the test rigs’ controls for CANDU nuclear power plant FHS equipment. Reduced the design and construction time by developing a PLC design concept in lieu of the relay logic diagrams provided in the plant FHS project licensed from AECL

Other Projects:

Prepared testing and engineering procedures for nuclear equipment manufactured under CSA Z 299.4
Designed tests and test rigs and conducted destructive tests on Zircaloy tubes used for fabrication of nuclear fuel bundles

miscellaneous

Thermal systems and machines:

Over 20 thermal plants - power generating; steam and water heating systems; power distribution, protection; and MCCs
Thermal machines OEMs instrumentation and controls

Other projects

Process control and power distribution systems for gasoline and gas storage and dispensing facilities
Signal booster shelters for Fiber Optic Transmission Systems (FOTS)
Emergency power for a number of water, wastewater, and FOTS facilities
Electrostatic powder application in food industry

Engineering enhancements

Organized, prepared, and supervised the maintenance of
construction standard specifications and drawings corporate library including electrical and I&CS reducing owner’s quality control workload by 30%
Developed, promoted, and applied successfully an innovative project delivery method which reduced the cost and time of preparing contract/tendering documents by approx. 60% for the plant wide process control system upgrades at the Ashbridges Bay Sewage Treatment Plant.

• Streamlined owner’s project management efficiency by improving their capital delivery manual including requirements for consultants, typical request for proposal (RFP), project launch form, sortable Excel project issues list form and other template documents.