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MEG joins Tetra Tech
Tetra Tech is pleased to announce that MEG Consulting Limited
has joined the Tetra Tech family.
MEG is a highly specialized geotechnical and
marine engineering firm that has grown under
the leadership of John Sully and Ender Parra with strong
technical support from Lothar Chan and Gordon Fung.
Over the past 20 years, MEG has built a reputation for leading
with technical excellence and delivering client-focused
solutions to complex challenges as a worldwide provider
to the transportation and infrastructure sector, oil and gas
developments, and the mining sector for both onshore and
offshore projects.
Tetra Tech is a leading consulting engineering firm with over
16,000 staff located in more than 400 offices worldwide to serve
our clients’ most complex needs.
The geotechnical and marine engineering expertise that MEG
brings to Tetra Tech enhances our ability to serve clients with the
most complex and challenging projects locally and worldwide.
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manufactures. They are all working permanently in the Tigris
and Euphrates Rivers and tributaries, where an annual sediment
load of 30 million cubic metres per year is deposited,
and must be removed to prevent flooding and for navigation.
“We aren’t in the contracting business,” said Grant. “When
we operate a dredge, it’s either to demonstrate it or to perform
specialized work.”
An example of such specialized work is at the Alberta tar
sands project, where 16 Normrock employees are on site with
two machines – an AE1200 and AE400 equipped with horizontal
cutterheads – under contract to Syncrude.
“This was an experiment that went very well,” said Grant.
The Amphibex proved to be ideal for the work.
The tar sands operation includes settling ponds for storing
the water, debris and particulates from the oil separation
operation. Some of these ponds are now being remediated.
The liquid is pumped to separation stations, and the bottom
of the ponds completely cleaned of all foreign material in
preparation for filling with the original soils and planting
with the original flora.
“When we leave there, it’s going to be clean,” said Grant.
“Nothing left.”
COMPANY PROFILE
Four Amphibex units are lined up for size comparison. They are, from left, an AE450 equipped with
a backhoe bucket; the Amphitransport with the hopper raised in “dump” position; the AE850P
equipped with the environmental clamshell; and the AE1200P with a standard cutterhead.
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