"If you’re building a bridge across the Shubenacadie, you want to avoid interaction with the river in the summer and the heavy icy flows in winter,"
says Kyle Boudreau, structural engineer with Harbourside Engineering Consultants (HEC) which has its head office in Dartmouth.
The Shubenacadie River Bridges were in poor condition, so Harbourside Engineering Consultants produced detailed design and construction phasing drawings for the Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal. The project included a full assessment of the existing structures, and the resulting report presented three options to address the problems with the structures. Harbourside undertook the complete erection package for the replacement superstructures, the complete demolition design of the existing superstructures, and the detailed construction phasing.
