PROPOSAL FOR: QUALICUM BEACH WATERFRONT MASTER PLAN Town of Qualicum Beach August 28th, 2013 Submitted to: Town of Qualicum Beach Trudy Coates, Corporate Administrator #201-660 Primrose Street Qualicum Beach, BC V9K 1W8 (250)738-2202 ORIGINAL [email protected] INTERNAL REFERENCE NUMBER > 2013-13-056 NOTICE TO READERS ‑ ‑ QUALICUM BEACH WATERFRONT MASTER PLAN Contents SNC-Lavalin Company Profile ............................................................................................................. 1 A. Understanding of and Approach to the Assignment .................................................................. 3 A.1 General Understanding and Approach ............................................................................................... 3 A.2 Work Plan ............................................................................................................................................ 7 A.3 Added Value Provided SNC-Lavalin Inc. ............................................................................................ 21 A.4 Sustainability and Environmental Considerations ............................................................................ 23 B. Payment Terms ..................................................................................................................... 25 B.1 Terms and Conditions ....................................................................................................................... 25 B.2 Estimated Effort and Fees ................................................................................................................. 26 B.3 Schedule ............................................................................................................................................ 29 B.4 Exclusions .......................................................................................................................................... 30 C. Experience and Qualifications ................................................................................................ 31 C.1 Details of SNC-Lavalin’s Relevant Projects ........................................................................................ 31 C.2 Previous Related Work including Local / Regional Experience ......................................................... 34 C.3 Project Team ..................................................................................................................................... 37 D. References ............................................................................................................................. 58 Appendix A Software descriptions Client Name: Town of Qualicum Beach Internal Reference: 2013-13-056 Submission Date: Aug. 28, 2013 Submission Date: Aug. 28, 2013 © SNC-Lavalin Inc. 2013. All rights reserved. Company Confidential. i QUALICUM BEACH WATERFRONT MASTER PLAN SNC-Lavalin Company Profile SNC-Lavalin (SLI) is one of the leading engineering and construction groups in the world. SNC-Lavalin companies provide engineering, procurement, construction, project management and project financing services to a variety of industry sectors, including agrifood, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, hydrocarbons and chemicals, environment, heavy construction, mass transit, mining and metallurgy, power and water management. Revenues in 2011 totalled $7.2 billion. SNC-Lavalin’s Transportation Division, which includes the Ports and Marine Group’s Coastal Engineering team, has extensive experience and expertise in the planning, design, construction, and operation of Transportation Infrastructure of all types, including rail and transit systems, highways, roads and bridges, airports, and ports and marine facilities. The Division has the flexibility and resources to undertake projects of any size or duration, from scoping, pre-feasibility, planning, and design, through to construction, operation and maintenance. The Vancouver based Ports and Marine Group includes 40 marine sector professionals located in Vancouver and Victoria, with specialties spanning coastal engineering, marine planning and design, and construction and project management. Ports and Marine Engineering requires a particular expertise consisting of sound technical knowledge coupled with a practical experience in the operation and maintenance of facilities, installations and systems. The SNC-Lavalin team has acquired this expertise through the successful completion of numerous projects spanning many marine sectors, from private terminal development, public and government marine infrastructure, through to urban waterfront structures and floodplain protection works. Our Ports and Marine Group is part of a large, full-service multi-disciplinary engineering office. By teaming with our other divisions and utilizing the full breadth of the Company’s design and execution services and resources, we can provide clients with a complete solution for projects. SNC-Lavalin’s Environment &Water Division (E&W) is the environmental engineering and consulting arm of SNC-Lavalin Inc. with a staff of over 1,200 people located in 30 offices across Canada, nine of those in British Columbia. Established more than 40 years ago, E&W has one of the most comprehensive environmental consulting teams in Canada and is a leader in providing a range of environmental services to businesses and government in the power utilities, government, forestry, mining, petroleum, petrochemical, organic chemical, road, rail and air transportation, and metal processing industries. E&W maintains Client Name: Town of Qualicum Beach Internal Reference: 2013-13-056 Submission Date: Aug. 28, 2013 Proposal Submission: Aug. 28, 2013 © SNC-Lavalin Inc. 2013. All rights reserved. Company Confidential. 1 QUALICUM BEACH WATERFRONT MASTER PLAN exceptionally high standards for quality, health and safety, and environmental protection, and is committed to delivering projects on budget and on schedule to the complete satisfaction of its clients. The E&W Division has been involved in climate change issues for over 15 years. We have provided climate change-related consulting services to a wide range of clients from institutional clients (Environment Canada, the Québec Ministry of the environment, the United Nations) to industrial facilities. The services provided to various clients include: adaptation hazard vulnerability assessments, greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories elaboration, validation and verification, GHG emissions reduction opportunities identification, assistance in the negotiation of emission targets, energy and industrial process improvement studies, CO2 capture and recovery, applicability of carbon financing in projects, carbon neutral products and services and life cycle assessments. Client Name: Town of Qualicum Beach Internal Reference: 2013-13-056 Submission Date: Aug. 28, 2013 Proposal Submission: Aug. 28, 2013 © SNC-Lavalin Inc. 2013. All rights reserved. Company Confidential. 2 QUALICUM BEACH WATERFRONT MASTER PLAN A. Understanding of and Approach to the Assignment A.1 General Understanding and Approach The waterfront and shoreline of the Town of Qualicum (the Town) is a key defining asset of the Town of Qualicum Beach. In the past, development of this part of the Town occurred in an easy-going, informal manner that is now recognized for its limitations. The many competing interests and demands for maintaining commercial development of the Town (including increasing public awareness, interest and demand for waterfront access and preservation of the natural values, and the implications of expected climate change implications to the shoreline boundary of the Town) have become more apparent in recent years. Figure 1: View of the open water exposure of the Qualicum Beach area in the Strait of Georgia (Google Maps) A.1.1 Wave climate in the Strait of Georgia for the Qualicum Beach The shoreline area of the Town is located in a central portion of the Strait of Georgia. This shoreline is open to both the strong fall and winter E and SE storms over the approximate 90 km of open water to the Fraser River delta area, and to the sometimes related N and NW winds and associated waves generated down the Strait over approximate 80 km (Figure 1). The movement of sediments along the Qualicum Beach shoreline by waves and currents will be significantly affected by this almost balanced exposure. Historically, this coastal environment area has likely been supplied by sediments from the rivers, streams and creeks along the shoreline and from the coastal bluffs and low-lying soft sediment coastal plains. As awareness of the growing degradation of the waterfront shoreline becomes more acute, especially during recent storms in 2011 and 2012, the need to understand the coastal balances in this area becomes vital to building a sustainable plan and strategy for the future. Client Name: Town of Qualicum Beach Internal Reference: 2013-13-056 Submission Date: Aug. 28, 2013 Proposal Submission: Aug. 28, 2013 © SNC-Lavalin Inc. 2013. All rights reserved. Company Confidential. 3 QUALICUM BEACH WATERFRONT MASTER PLAN A.1.2 Wildlife Management The Town of Qualicum Beach shoreline is also a major component of the Qualicum Beach Wildlife Management Area (QBWMA). Both the QBWMA management plan (QBWMAMP, 2003) and the 2011 Qualicum Beach OCP recognize the importance this aspect of the area plays in the waterfront use, values and future development. Two key QBWMAMP principles are preservation of the ecological values and wildlife populations using foreshore and