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This 33m high truck dump wall at Mount Milligan mine is the tallest retaining wall constructed by Geoquest in Canada to date. It supports 320 ton capacity haul trucks dumping ore to the primary crusher located in the dump pocket at the edge of the wall. The [...]

The Canadian Geotechnical Society / La Société canadienne de géotechnique (CGS) and the Calgary Geotechnical Society (CyGS) organized GeoCalgary 2022, the event took place this past October and was held at the Hyatt Regency in Calgary, Alberta. In 2022, GeoCalgary celebrated their 75th year, it is currently [...]

March is National Engineering Month in Canada to celebrate engineers, their work, and their important role in society. Let’s take a moment to commemorate the professional engineers at Geoquest Canada, who adds up to 45% of our total staff and contributes to the company’s great successes. Presented [...]

Today is International Women’s Day. Let’s celebrate and recognize all the amazing women who play a role in the incredible civil engineering industry we have here in Canada! Towards the end of 2022 Geoquest launched a Gender Equality Plan with the goal to increase the number of [...]

We are delighted to announce that one of the projects we worked on made it to the finalists round in On-Site's Annual Canadian Construction Photo Contest. Please Visit the Link for More Details: Click Here Photo courtesy of: Kicking Horse Canyon Phase 4 Project Location: Golden, B.C. [...]

In celebration of Geoquest Canada’s 50th Anniversary, we published a coffee table book showcasing a small sample of our history. This book is a collection of 50 projects that have been built, highlighting interesting facts and pictures. We would like to extend a special thank you to all the [...]

Off to the Canadian Rockies The Kicking Horse Canyon Phase 4 Project, in British Columbia involves realigning and widening 4.8 km of highway through the canyon. This last phase is the most technically challenging and difficult part of whole 4 phased project considering the location, along with [...]

Back in the fall, in conjunction with our tree planting event, a 5 km walk was organized by the Sustainable Development Committee and the Health and Safety Committee, as part of a Geoquest Health Day. On Tuesday, October 18, in addition to planting trees, Geoquest completed a [...]

We have worked on a wide array of projects including the Reversing Falls Railway Bridge Rehabilitation in Saint John, New Brunswick. Due to the advanced degradation of the concrete in the piers of Reversing Falls Railway Bridge, a 20m high Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) wall [...]

Have you heard about TechSpan®? If not, let us introduce you to this technology that is widely used in infrastructure projects across Canada. Not only that, this technology has been accepted as standard practice by civil engineering authorities worldwide. TechSpan® is a state of the art, three hinged precast [...]