than 70 countries around the world.
BAUER operates a worldwide network
with 110 subsidiaries that allows it to
provide clients with innovative solu-tions
and equipment.
The BAUER Group has a history
spanning back to 1790 when Sebastian
Bauer established a workshop in
Schrobenhausen, Bavaria. In the early
days, the artisan workshop focused on
copper work. One of the famous histor-ical
projects performed was the copper
cladding for the roof of St. Jakob’s
Church tower in Schrobenhausen.
By the end of the 1800s, BAUER
branched into construction, building
wells and water pipes throughout Bavaria.
Over the following century, BAUER built
its capacity in construction and expe-rienced
significant growth during the
post-war era and achieved some signifi-cant
milestones. For instance, BAUER
invented the first injection anchor in a
construction site in Munich in 1958.
Other BAUER “firsts” included the
construction of the first anchor drill
rig UBW01 in 1969 and the heavy-duty
rotary drilling rig BG7 in 1975. By the
mid-1970s, BAUER started to establish
an international presence and now
does work all over the globe.
Shortly after BFCA entered the
Canadian marketplace, the group
began construction on the Hydro-
Québec’s Peribonka dam – the world’s
deepest cut-off wall at the time. The
team installed the 116-metre deep
slurry cut-off wall in extremely chal-lenging
geotechnical conditions.
“This project is a good example of
BAUER’s innovation and engineer-ing
excellence,” said BFCA’s managing
director, Samir Hebib. “Early on, we
established ourselves as the first-choice
specialist contractor for complex foun-dation
projects throughout Canada.”
Today, BFCA has its head office
in Calgary, but works on projects all
over Canada. BFCA offers products in
the full range of piling, shoring, slurry
walls, ground improvement and grout-ing.
BFCA is also able to draw upon
additional techniques and exper-tise
through the BAUER network,
such as soil freezing and maritime
drilling technology.
“We operate state-of-the-art equip-ment,
which is manufactured in-house
by our machinery division at our facili-ties
around the world. The quality of
our equipment is well recognized in
the industry as many of our competi-tors
use the BAUER equipment,” said
Hebib. “Having access to such manu-facturing
facilities gives us a unique
position in the market whereby we can
manufacture or adapt equipment for
specific projects.”
For instance, BFCA manufactured a
new cutter that reached depths of 135
metres for the Peribonka dam because
the required depth of the cut-off wall
was beyond the capabilities of equip-ment
available at that time.
More recently, Diavik Diamond
Mines, located in the Northwest
Territories, contracted BFCA to con-struct
a cut-off-wall system in an
open-pit expansion project. To com-plete
the project, Hebib says BFCA
designed a multi-purpose “Swiss army
knife rig” drill rig capable of performing
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