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Stantec in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia STANTEC IN DARTMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA Stantec’s Dartmouth office is home to a PROJECTS PRIMARY SERVICES: SECTORS & TOP CLIENTS team of engineers, designers, scientists, • Cape Breton Municipality Council Size • Advanced testing labs Aviation – Halifax International Airport technicians, and project managers and Boundaries Review • Biophysical & ecological sciences Authority representing decades of multi-disciplined • Integrated Community Sustainability • Bridges, roadways and wharf design Bridges and Roadways – Department of experience with industrial, commercial and Plans, Various Municipalities across • Buildings engineering Transportation and Public Works government clients. Atlantic Canada • Environmental assessment Commercial – Sobeys Inc, Crombie • Socio-economic Scenarios for Climate • Environmental planning and permitting Properties, Shaw Resources, Southwest Part of the office’s legacy includes its Change Adaptation, NS Department of • Environmental remediation Properties dominant role in the Eastern Canada oil and Environment Climate Change Directorate • Hydrogeology Government – Defence Construction gas industry. Having worked with ExxonMobil • NS Department of Transportation and • Geotechnical engineering Canada, Public Works & Government Canada and Imperial Oil, Shell and EnCana Infrastructure Renewal - Environmental • Industrial process and facilities Services Canada, Nova Scotia Department in both offshore and refinery settings for Assessment for Highway 107 Extension engineering of Transportation & Infrastructure Renewal, over 30 years, Stantec is immersed in the to Highway 102 • Machine design Halifax Regional Municipality culture of protecting employee well-being and • Town of Windsor Waste Water • Materials engineering Manufacturing – Michelin, CKF, Ocean safety while protecting assets through skillful Treatment Facility • Materials testing laboratories for Nutrition Canada, Oland Breweries implementation of risk management safety • PWGSC – Standing Offer Agreements concrete, asphalt & soils (14000 sq’ lab) Marine & Port Facilities – Halifax Port DARTMOUTH NS DARTMOUTH programs. The office has been ISO certified for Multi-Disciplinary Environmental • Petroleum engineering Authority, Public Works and Infrastructure for over 15 years and its testing labs have Services • Power transmission and distribution Renewal, Melford Terminals, Nova Forge been CSA certified for concrete materials • Imperial Oil Limited – Sulfur Recovery • Risk assessment Corporation, Maple Leaf Foods, Clearwater Architect: Smith & Koenka Architects testing for over 30 years. and Sour Water Stripper, Dartmouth, NS • Water and wastewater systems Seafoods • Shell Canada Products – Environmental • Sustainability services Marine – Halifax Port Authority, Sydney The Dartmouth office is a leader in Nova Site Assessment and Remediation Ports Corporation Scotia in geotechnical and materials • Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro Mixed-Use – Dartmouth Crossing Limited engineering. Over the last 20 years, – Generating Station Maintenance Oil and Gas – Imperial Oil Limited, Oil & the office has developed a high skill Strategy Review, Churchill Falls, NL Gas Shell Canada, EnCana Corporation, level in environmental assessment and • North American – Dartmouth Crossing ExxonMobil Development Corporation, environmental site remediation, having Commercial Development Phase I – North Atlantic Refining Limited, Heritage exported many of its staff to other locations Dartmouth, NS Gas to establish other offices. The Dartmouth • DEVCO and PWGSC – Remediation Power – Hydro One, Newfoundland Power, office has long term relationships with of 100+ former Coal Mine Sites and Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro, Suez Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM); Workings/Waste Areas, Cape Breton Energy, Nova Scotia Power, Sky Power Defence Construction Canada (DCC), and • Survival Systems Ltd. – Modular Egress Real Estate and Finance – Clayton the Municipal Group of Companies. Training Simulator Design for H6 Developments, ECL Properties, Crombie Helicopter, Dartmouth, NS Properties Beyond its known strength in the resources • Department of Transportation and Public Resources – Alton Natural Gas Storage, sectors, the office also provides services Works – Bayers Road/Highway 102 Abitibi Bowater, Louisiana Pacific in manufacturing, power, buildings, Corridor Study, Halifax, NS transportation, and environmental • Nova Scotia Department of infrastructure practice areas. For example, the Transportation and Infrastructure Dartmouth office has a significant relationship Renewal – Geotechnical and with Michelin (North America) Canada; Environmental Services for Highway for more than a decade, the manufacturing 101, Twinning of Highway 104 group has completed hundreds of projects • Department of Transportation and involving plant expansions, equipment Infrastructure Renewal – Little Bras d’Or modifications and new machinery integration Bridge Detour, NS at facilities across North America. • ExxonMobil Canada – Sable Offshore Energy Engineering Services, NS In addition to full capabilities in the • EnCana – Deep Panuke Offshore Gas civil, structural, process, mechanical, Development Environmental Assessment instrumentation, and electrical engineering disciplines, the office is well-versed in project management services such as scheduling, cost control, procurement and construction administration—offering a full suite of client-centered solutions. Architect: Lydon Lynch Architects .
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