The Dartmouth office uses any chance it can get to break out their BBQ. Thankfully the May long weekend was the perfect excuse! Good thing the rain held off!

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.

UPDATE: This position has been filled.

Harbourside Engineering Consultants is looking for the right individual to join our Dartmouth, Nova Scotia location in the role of Structural Draftsperson.

UPDATE: This position has been filled.

Harbourside Engineering is looking for the right individual to join our St. John’s office to help with this work and further expand our presence in the region. This opportunity will be both challenging and rewarding, providing the successful candidate with the ability to expand their design and business development skills while working as part of a young and dynamic team.

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.

We would like to highlight one of our junior engineers for today’s staff spotlight. Claire Spearns has been with HEC since 2023, when she began her co-op.

UPDATE: This position has been filled.

Harbourside Transportation Consultants is looking for the right individual to join our Dartmouth office. This opportunity will be both challenging and rewarding, providing the successful candidate with the ability to expand their design and business development skills while working as part of a dynamic team.

Bryan Rusagara began is co-op term with Harbourside in 2024. He liked it so much that he came back for a second go!

Today’s staff spotlight highlights one of our junior engineers: Carson Mackay. Carson got his start at Harbourside during his co-op term in 2022, and joined the team full time in 2023.

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.

PNI Atlantic News — Harbourside wins the coveted Schreyer award from the Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards for their work on the deconstruction of the Old Champlain Bridge. Saltwire features Greg MacDonald and Calvin MacAulay from Harbourside’s PEI office to discuss the project.

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.

Harbourside Engineering Group, recently expanded its capabilities with the acquisition of W S Langley Concrete & Materials Technology. The acquired company’s president, Wilbert ‘Wib’ S. Langley, P.Eng., has more than 50 years’ experience in concrete materials engineering. He has consulted for the Halifax Harbour Bridges, Confederation Bridge, Gordie Howe International Bridge, William R Bennett Bridge and Hoover Dam Bridge.

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.