BGC provides engineering and geo-environmental consulting services for linear transportation facilities operated by highway, railway, pipeline, mining, hydroelectric, and forestry companies. Our work ranges from initial routing and environmental impact studies, geotechnical design and construction issues to hazard and risk assessment and remediation. We have also served as a client liaison with regulatory agencies, developing and implementing strategies to achieve regulatory approval. Our transportation project experience is international in scope. Specific engineering services that BGC has provided to transportation companies follows:

Assessment

Terrain mapping and borrow searches
Routing feasibility studies and facilities site selection
Multi-phase hazard identification and prioritisation methodology for planned and existing facilities
Geological mapping and rock mass characterization
Baseline environmental assessment
Geotechnical site investigation
Risk assessment and management
Slope stability assessment

Design

Foundation, slope, and river crossing
Environmental impact assessments and erosion control
Tunnels and underground excavations
Rock slope stabilization
Landslide assessment and slope rehabilitation
Piled and bridge foundations
Retaining walls
Hydrotechnical engineering
Permafrost engineering
Geotechnical instrumentation
Independent design reviews
Database design

Construction

Specification and tender preparation
Tender evaluation
Engineering review for earth and rock construction
Environmental monitoring
Quality assurance/quality control
Contract administration
As-built records

Natural Hazard Risk Management

Geohazard risk rating systems
Geohazard inspections/client personnel training
Geohazard risk management data management systems (database, internet based)