Tailings and Mine Waste Storage Facilities
A leader in effective and sustainable tailings and mine waste management solutions, our experts ensure that mine waste storage facilities are guided by principles of improved safety, risk reduction, and minimized environmental impact. With experience in designing new storage facilities and assessing the safety of current facilities, our team has the capabilities to handle most mine waste related problems.
Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering
Specializing in soil dynamics and earthquake engineering, our team can conduct probabilistic seismic hazard analyses (PSHA) to assess seismic conditions at your site. Using results from the PSHA, ground response analyses (GRA) and pseudostatic models can be created to determine structure behaviour. Additionally, our team is adept at conducting liquefaction susceptibility and triggering assessments.
Dam Safety Reviews
Our dedicated team has extensive experience conducting dam safety reviews, which includes assessment of structural integrity, review of geotechnical parameters, slope stability analyses, seepage analyses, and dam inspections. Our team also ensures to conduct a robust root-cause failure analysis of the dam and its associated structures.
Ground Improvement
With a focus on practical, economic solutions, our experts have a deep understanding of earthworks and ground improvement from sinkholes in earthen dams to liquefiable soil. Through interpretation of in-situ and laboratory soil data, our team assesses the quality of the soil to determine the best improvement solution. If the soil is found to be liquefiable, our team has experience designing and implementing liquefaction remediation methods.
Tunnels and Shafts
Our team has in-depth expertise in pre-feasibility and feasibility studies for tunnel and shaft design and construction. This includes interpretation of geotechnical and geological conditions, shoring design and review for large diameter shafts, and numerical modelling of tunnels to assess stability and settlement.
Forensic Engineering
Investigating failures ranging from serviceability to catastrophic, our team specializes in causal analysis, failure investigations, and engineering back-analysis of geotechnical structures. Contact us to determine what went wrong and the root cause(s).
Owner's Engineer
Our team has a unique blend of high technical capability and extensive engineering experience that makes us well equipped to be an Owner’s Engineer. We offer engineering design review and optimization, project evaluation, and cost/benefit analyses.
Dams and Tailings Management Systems
Ask us about our Playbook for ensuring compliance with the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management. Our team will work with you to develop management systems, policies and procedures, and organizational structure and routines required for successful dam and tailings safety management.
Advisory Boards and Expert Panels
We provide independent, expert oversight and opinions during all project phases from planning and conception, design, construction, and operation. The benefits are lower risk, better performance, and improved designs.
Program Management
Referring to the coordinated management of related complementary projects, instead of individually, organizations with sound program management capabilities are more successful and achieve better performance. Contact us to discuss how we can help your organization manage diverse teams and programs to achieve better results.
Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Event Trees, Quantitative and Semi-quantitative Risk Analysis, Hazard Identification, Layers of Protection Analysis and Critical Control Management. These are some of the core tools required to identify hazards and manage risk. We can help you to implement effective hazard identification and risk assessment processes so you can manage risk and set priorities.
Risk Based Decision Support Systems
We are adept at establishing and optimizing risk management support systems, which involves defining key performance indicators, designing and implementing standard operating procedures, and outlining roles and responsibilities.
Data Analysis and Data Mobility
Our team analyzes and manages data, enables data mobility between different corporate platforms, and builds custom Visual Dashboards to provide managers with the visibility needed to manage risk, and performance.