Started in May 2016, the major structural steelwork to reinforce the Jacques Cartier Bridge will continue until 2019. The work aims to extend the operating life of this Montreal icon. St. Lawrence Erectors, a subsidiary of Canam Group, will carry out work for The Jacques Cartier and Champlain Bridges Incorporated (JCCBI) until the summer of 2017. Inaugurated on May 24, 1930, this historic structure was built to standards that permitted…
St. Lawrence Erectors proceeded to the lifting of the first girder of the new Highway 15 bridge over the Lachine Canal. This structure will be erected as part of the roadwork completed by KPH Turcot, which is responsible for the design and construction of the main infrastructures of the Turcot interchange in Montreal, QC. The mandate given to St. Lawrence Erectors includes the installation of the structural steel and the precast concrete slabs for…
After several months of work, the Canam-Bridges team is very proud to have delivered its first two steel box girders to be used to construct the approaches of the new Champlain Bridge. The first of the two pieces measured 80 feet 4 inches (24.5 metres) and weighed 64.51 metric tons with a height of 11 feet 8 inches (3.6 metres). The second was the same in length, had a weight of 63.7 metric tons…
Canam-Buildings and Canam-Bridges excelled at the 18th CISC Awards of Excellence Gala for the Quebec region, held on November 4th in Montreal. Canam is proud to have participated in the projects that received awards in the following categories: Category: Green buildings Soprema Plant, Drummondville, Quebec. This plant, which produces polyisocyanurate insulating panels, used mainly in roofs for institutional and industrial buildings, is the first of its kind in North America. Canam…
Canam Group will take part in the construction of a 400-kilometre long, 735-kV electrical line for Hydro-Québec between the Chamouchouane substation in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean and the Bout-de-l’Île in Montreal, Quebec. The company will supply four tubular transmission power line pylons with three towers and their anchor cages, totalling 635 tons of metalized and painted steel components. Each pylon weights between 100 and 200 tons and the masts are 98 to 151…
Learn more about the erection of the main pylon One of the largest infrastructure projects in North America, the New Champlain Bridge Corridor, will be the subject of a Web Series documentary in the form of educational web videos. The Web Series entitled “Inside the Giant”, of which the first capsule showcases the construction of the main pylon, is a presentation of Signature on the St. Lawrence, the consortium managing the project. Let us remind you…
St. Lawrence Erectors is taking part in the replacement of Gardiners Bridge in Nova Scotia. It is a two-span 120-foot (37-meters) long truss bridge. Since the bridge has a rather short span, the launched-girder erection technique without launching nose is used. Let us not forget that Canam-Bridges has already designed, fabricated and delivered 85 tons of steel components, and has provided Goodco Z-Tech bearings and expansion joints for this project. Gardiners…
In October, more than sixty employees from the Claremont, New Hampshire plant visited the construction site of the replacement of the John Greenleaf Whittier Bridge in Amesbury, Massachusetts. During their visit, employees saw both the completed bridge for the northbound lanes of Interstate-95 and the construction of the bridge for the southbound lanes. In addition to walking the site, employees had the chance to interact with erectors and the Department of Transportation Engineer responsible for…
Canam-Bridges has been awarded a contract to supply Goodco Z-Tech products for a bicycle path project linking Longueuil and Boucherville, QC along the St. Lawrence River. This agreement affects the section between the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Tunnel-Bridge and the Boucherville Rowing Club. The three raised parts of the path will require 867 tons of structural steel (W-shape rolled form) and 961 feet (293 meters) of expansion joints with compression seals. The…
On October 25, three of Canam Group’s employees will give mini-lectures in a “Speed Meeting” style during the CISC 8th Annual Steel Workshop held in Quebec City. Their fifteen-minute-long presentations will be delivered to about 10 people at a time. Canam-Buildings Laurence Ferland-Brissette, Eng., Structural Engineer, will present various less-known products and novelties of Canam-Buildings. She will focus on the innovative aspects of some products along with a few projects examples for each…
