Services

Engineering for complex environments.

Specialist engineering and advisory services for infrastructure affected by ground, water, ice and climate.

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01

Ground · Ice · Climate

Cold Regions Engineering

Engineering insight for infrastructure affected by snow, ice, frozen ground and extreme climate.

  • Permafrost and seasonally frozen ground
  • Ground ice, thaw susceptibility and frost processes
  • Thermal regime assessment
  • Ice roads, working surfaces and floating ice
  • River and lake ice
  • Northern field-program planning
02

Corridors · Assets · Performance

Linear Infrastructure

Understanding infrastructure as a corridor, not an isolated asset — with emphasis on in-service performance, hazards and resilience.

  • Railways, highways and remote transportation corridors
  • Utility and energy corridors
  • Embankments, crossings and access infrastructure
  • Terrain–infrastructure interaction
  • Condition and failure investigation
  • Corridor-scale hazard and risk mapping
03

Water · Hazards · Practical Solutions

Water & Environment

Practical water and environmental solutions grounded in how the system actually behaves.

  • Surface-water hydrology
  • Hydrogeology and groundwater–surface-water interaction
  • Drainage
  • Erosion and sediment
  • Flood assessment and infrastructure-related water hazards
  • In-service support and cost-effective mitigation
04

Numerical Engineering

Modeling & Analysis

Advanced analysis for problems that cannot be reduced to a single equation.

  • Structural and geotechnical finite-element analysis
  • Finite-difference modeling
  • Thermal and coupled THM modeling
  • Ice mechanics and ice-road modeling
  • Hydraulic modeling
  • Geophysical sensing-informed simulations and interpretation
05

Risk · Adaptation · Performance

Climate Adaptation & Resilience

Move from climate projections to engineering decisions with practical, asset-focused adaptation strategies.

  • Climate vulnerability assessment
  • Permafrost degradation and thermal change
  • Flooding, erosion and extreme precipitation
  • Adaptation pathways and asset prioritization
  • Monitoring strategies
  • Cost-effective resilience measures
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B2B · Owners · Project Teams

Project Support & Advisory

Specialist engineering support when the problem falls outside the ordinary scope.

  • Technical advisory and specialist subconsulting
  • Independent technical and peer review
  • Model and data review
  • Failure and engineering investigations
  • Field-program planning
  • Construction and in-service technical support

Mapping & Spatial Intelligence

See more. Understand more. Decide with confidence.

Turn corridor, terrain, environmental and monitoring datasets into clear spatial intelligence for engineering decisions.

  • Engineering GIS and corridor mapping
  • Terrain and remote-sensing analysis
  • Hazard and infrastructure overlays
  • Monitoring-data visualization
  • Spatial interpolation and risk surfaces
  • Interactive mapping and web GIS
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Engineering layers
Topography
Permafrost / ground model
Hydrology
Infrastructure
Monitoring
Risk

B2B & specialist support

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