- bulk handling
- coastal & ocean
- containers & intermodal
- ports & marine
- railways
- simulation programs
- tunnels & bridges
In 2003, Sandwell won an engineering award of excellence for its work on the Coal Harbour Development project.
The coastal and ocean engineering aspects of any marine project involve some of the most complex and demanding issues in today's engineering environment.
Sandwell meets these challenges with advanced expertise, sophisticated analysis and practical experience. Our services include:
- meteorologic/oceanographic analysis
- wave forces and structural stability assessment
- coastal sediment process assessment
- coastal and offshore structures evaluation and design
- breakwater design and development
- floating breakwaters and facilities design
- shoreline restoration and protection
- scour protection design
- dredging and land reclamation
- hydraulic and river engineering
- coastal zone management and planning
- oceanographic and hydrographic surveys
- simulation, physical and numerical modeling.
Decisions made during met-ocean analysis can have the single largest impact on the feasibility and cost of nearly all components of a project.
Marathon Developments Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia
Shoreline development
In continuous development since 1991, this project has transformed a mixed industrial site into a distinctive and lively urban neighbourhood covering more than 33 hectares along the downtown Vancouver waterfront. Sandwell’s scope of service covered conceptual, preliminary and detailed designs, cost estimates, tender documents and construction contract administration for the site infrastructure, including the Class "A" marina, a piled shoreline walkway, seawall, and shoreline protection treatment, storm and sanitary sewers, waterlines and a sewage pump station, roadworks, elevated viaduct over SkyTrain, and street lighting. Some highlights:
balancing aesthetics and the environment in the seawall construction. Sandwell developed an installation procedure for "Special Placed Rock" (see photo above) that carefully graded and placed the rock armour to have a uniform tiled look while still providing the necessary intertidal fish habitat.
the use of a "silt curtain," a fabric wall draped through the water and surrounding the dredging and fill areas to contain the plume of suspended soil that would have otherwise spread over a large area of Burrard Inlet. The technique was so effective that it is now in common usage.
City of Victoria, British Columbia
Seawall reconstruction
Vibration and spray problems affecting properties behind the west end of the Ross Bay Seawall were related to the shape of the wall and the natural erosion of the seabed in front of it. A pebble beach constructed in front of the wall proved the most stable and economical solution, and provided enhanced recreational facilities and fishery habitat.
