for K+S Potash Canada’s Legacy Mine
located about 70 kilometres northeast
of Regina, Sask. Since then, Aecon
Foundations hasn’t looked back.
Deep foundation solutions
Today, the company offers a wide range
of deep foundation solutions, including
the following pile systems:
• Driven H-piles, steel tubes
• Drilled shafts
• Caissons
• CFA piles
• Bell piles
• Screw piles
Aecon Foundations’ solutions also
include the following shoring systems:
• Secant pile walls
• Sheet piles
• Cut-off walls
• Timber lagging walls
• Tie-back anchors
The company is currently assisting
with a new phase of construction of
the Eglinton-Crosstown Light Rapid
Transit project in Toronto, one of
the largest construction projects in
Ontario’s history. Aecon Foundations is
helping build four of the 15 new underground
stations being constructed on
the LRT line.
According to Richter, Bauer and
Liebherr drilling rigs are being used
to install secant pile walls consisting
of reinforced concrete piles 1.2 metres
in diameter and up to 40m in depth at
the four stations. The company’s work
on the Eglinton-Crosstown LRT project
began in December 2016 and it is
expected to continue until late 2018.
During the planning stages of
the project, Aecon Foundations performed
3-D modelling using GPS and
building information modeling (BIM)
systems, which Richter says has proven
extremely useful.
“This modeling is very important for
what we’re doing at Eglinton because
there are so many utility lines in the
ground,” he said. “What we’ve done is
convert the utility drawings into a 3-D
model and then overlaid it with our
pile drawings.”
In addition to its Canadian projects,
Aecon Foundations has also started
working overseas. It recently was
awarded a contract to help build a new
COMPANY PROFILE
“We like to
manage safety
proactively. It’s
more than just
lip service. This
is really driven
down from the
top management
to the crews so
they understand
how important
it is to us.”
– Lars Richter,
Aecon Foundations
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