Clyde River Bridge Crane Pads
Two engineered pads for a 440-ton crawler crane on the Cornwall Bypass
Geotechnical & Survey engineering
Know the ground before you build on it.
Site investigations, foundations, slopes, retaining structures, blasting, materials testing, marine structures, and legal and construction surveying.
Overview
Fundy Engineering was founded, in part, to give clients practical geotechnical alternatives, and it is still what we are best known for.
From boreholes and test pits to pile-driving inspection, blast monitoring and forensic investigation, our geotechnical and survey team tells you what the ground will do, then designs for it. With Murphy Surveys joining us in 2022, we also provide legal, topographic and construction surveying and 3D scanning from the same team.
Tools we use: AutoCAD · Autodesk Civil 3D · ArcGIS · 3D laser scanning
Investigation & design
- Site investigations for structures and earthworks (boreholes, test pits, sampling)
- Foundation design and inspection for spread footings and piles
- Slope stability design, monitoring and investigation
- Retaining structure design and inspection
- Marine structures design and investigation
- Civil works and stormwater management design
- Crane pads and temporary works
Construction & testing
- Pile-driving inspection and site supervision
- Pre-blast structural surveys, blast design, control and monitoring
- Materials testing for concrete, soil, steel and asphalt (labs in Saint John and Clyde River)
- Contract specification services
- Forensic investigations and expert testimony
Survey engineering
- Legal land surveying (New Brunswick Land Surveyor on staff)
- Land development planning and subdivision design
- Pre-engineering, topographic and construction surveying
- Site controls and benchmarks
- 3D laser scanning, surveying and modelling
Geotechnical in the field
Projects where this discipline led.
Wright Street Rock Wall Failure
Diagnosing a rock fall onto the Throughway and designing its replacement wall
Kingsbrae Garden Amphitheatre
Twelve tiers of seating sculpted from 506 concrete blocks
Digby Harbour Design
A 300 m breakwater redesigned around poor soils
Market Slip Dredging
Dredging 3,000 m³ from Saint John's historic slip without a barge
Milltown Dam Removal
Surveying the removal of an 1881 hydro dam and the return of a free-flowing St. Croix
Burchill Wind Farm
Ground-truthing 1,658 hectares for a 42 MW wind project
Common questions
Things clients ask our geotechnical team.
How early should a geotechnical engineer be involved?
Before the site plan is fixed. Findings from boreholes routinely move buildings, change foundation types or alter grading, and those changes are cheap on paper and expensive in concrete.
Do you have your own materials testing laboratory?
Yes. We run geotechnical and materials testing laboratories in Saint John and Clyde River for soil, concrete and asphalt testing.
Can you provide legal land surveys?
Yes. Murphy Surveys became a division of Fundy Engineering in 2022, and we have a New Brunswick Land Surveyor on staff for legal surveys, subdivisions and construction layout.
Insights
Read before you call.
7 min readWhat a geotechnical investigation tells you (and what it costs to skip one)
What a geotechnical investigation includes, what the report tells you, and what happens when owners in Atlantic Canada skip it. Know before you dig.
7 min readCrane pads and temporary works: small geotechnical decisions with big consequences
Crane pad design and temporary works geotechnics explained: ground bearing pressure, working platforms, geogrid, and why a pad failure costs more than the pad. Read before you lift.
7 min readDesigning wharves, slips and breakwaters for the world's highest tides
How Bay of Fundy tides shape marine structure design: wharves, slips, breakwaters and piers that survive 8 to 16 metre tidal ranges, ice and poor seabed soils.