Workers have reached another construction milestone on the Ontario Line project with the completion of the main arch for the Lower Don Bridge, a structure that will eventually carry subway trains over the Don River and Don Valley Parkway in Toronto’s east end. Harbourside Engineering have been acting as the erection engineering specialists on this incredible project

Sections of the DVP and Gardiner were closed from Friday, Jan. 30, at 11 p.m. to Monday, Feb. 2, at 5 a.m. to accommodate critical construction work for the new Lower Don Bridge that will carry Ontario Line trains across the Don River and adjacent highway lanes.

A recent project managed by Harbourside Project Management has been featured in the Engineer’s Nova Scotia magazine. The ESL medium weight shock machine helps to test the strength and durability of naval equipment.

The Globe and Mail — This is a historic moment. The Toronto Port Lands project was one of the largest in terms of re-naturalization of an industrialized landscape, and in terms of flood prevention.

Dexter Nova Alliance Team, which is made up of Dexter Construction, Nova Construction, WSP, Harbourside Engineering Group and the Department of Public Works has received the 2025 Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Excellence in Engineering.

Major construction has started on the new Lower Don Bridge that will carry Ontario Line trains across the Don River between the Corktown and Riverside communities. Harbourside Engineering has been acting as the specialist bridge engineer for this major project.

Article by Heavy Lift: Toronto’s long-running waterfront transformation has reached a defining milestone with the opening of the Port Lands redevelopment, a project that owes much to a complex series of heavy transport operations involving four major bridge structures.

The work of consulting engineering firms was celebrated, as 20 projects were recognized for their technical excellence and their contributions to society, during the 2024 Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards (CCEA).

CCE — Canadian Consulting Engineer and the Association of Consulting Engineering Companies – Canada (ACEC-Canada) handed out the 56th annual Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards at a celebration in Ottawa on Thursday, Oct. 24. The top prize, the Schreyer, went to Harbourside Engineering and gbi for the Champlain Bridge Deconstruction project in Montreal.

PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY — The Ontario government has completed major improvements to the Bay of Quinte Skyway Bridge that serves as an important connection to Highway 401 for communities in Prince Edward County and hundreds of thousands of tourists who visit wine country every year.

CBC — After two years of waiting, Londoners are now able to drive on the newly reconstructed Victoria Bridge over the Thames River.

The bridge located on Ridout Street had been closed since 2022 for reconstruction, but the City of London announced cyclists and pedestrians were allowed to cross over in April. 

CBC — Harbourside Project Management and Harbourside Engineering Consultants were hired to co-ordinate the build of the Simmons Sports Centre after an initially messy start-up. The project is on track to open next fall even.

he four new bridges at the Port Lands in Toronto were an engineering feat and all were installed using different methods and techniques. The bridges are part of the Port Lands Flood Protection Project, led by Waterfront Toronto, which created a new mouth for the Don River in the middle of the Port Lands between the Ship Channel and the Keating Channel, as well as the foundations of a new urban island, Villiers Island.

CBC- 3rd largest bridge in N.S. is a vital link for traffic heading to Newfoundland by ferry. A 2018-19 inspection of the bridge by Harbourside Engineering Consultants gave the various parts of the bridge a rating using the national bridge inventory rating system.

Harbourside Engineering one of two companies hired together to tackle the collapsed crane that fell in Halifax Nova Scotia during Hurricane Dorian, 2019.

The twinning project began with the construction of the two South River crossings — steel box girder designs, each on three piers.  General contractor was Nova Construction Co. Ltd. of Antigonish and Harbourside Engineering was the designer.

Dalhousie — That structural team, engaged by Argyle Developments, includes BMR Structural Engineering, Cherubini Metal Works, Harbourside Engineering and LEAD Structural Formwork. All have been working in close collaboration, navigating a project that is constantly undergoing design changes to address space and construction constraints.

"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.

Canadian Architect — Canadian consulting engineering firms received the highest recognition for engineering excellence at the 2014 Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards gala, held at the Ottawa Convention Centre. Harbourside received the award for Excellence for their work on the Vimy Memorial Bridge (Formerly Strandherd Armstrong)

Daily Commercial News — Harbourside Engineering Consultants of Dartmouth, N.S. was so certain that the company had devised a superior concept for the Indian Sluice Bridge replacement project in Yarmouth, N.S. that its engineers worked with client Dexter Construction to submit an alternate design for the new structure.