Experienced Hands
For over 40 years, Waterworks Construction Inc. has
been building its toolkit of experience and reliability
By Kelly Gray
When the chips are down and the needs are
high, it’s just another day for Dartmouth, Nova
Scotia-based Waterworks Construction Inc.
Since 1975, this Atlantic Canada company has
been earning a solid reputation as the go-to guys for all types
of piling and unique or challenging heavy civil infrastructure.
Today, Waterworks undertakes projects all over the Atlantic
Coast including Labrador and Nunavut, as well as the Northwest
Territories.
According to project manager Greg Kerr, his father
started the business in the ’70s while studying engineering
at university.
“Back then, my father Waterworks Construction’s president,
Roderick Kerr was doing small marine repair jobs and
working on recreational docks on the Northwestern Arm, a
3.5-kilometre inlet near Halifax harbour. He established a
good name in the trade and the business began to expand
when Gordon Spencer Waterworks’ current vice president
joined the team to help take on increasingly more challenging
work,” he said.
Kerr reports that it’s experience that has built the business.
“We go into each job with a solid base of knowledge
and then turn to our experience to solve the types of challenges
that are a constant in this type of construction,”
he said. “We have a good reputation for deep foundation
construction, including drilled and rock-socketed piles
and sheet piles, with a fair amount of our contracts being
marine-based.”
He points to their pile drilling machines as good examples
of their solutions-based thinking.
“We modified our crawler cranes into heavy drill equipment,”
said Kerr. “We saw there was a problem in our area of
work with drill machines not being able to handle long piles
or obtain the reach necessary for the site. The company has
since made significant investments to turn cranes into drill
rigs and this greatly enhanced our capabilities.”
A happy site crew (left to right:
Russell d’Entremont; Shane Harnish;
Gordon Spencer; Jason Stacey)
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