Structural/Civil Engineering

fga's Structural Engineering Department provides engineering services in virtually all aspects of the Civil discipline including marine structures, major earth works, site layout, highways, roads, feasibility studies, water and sewer systems. We provide design and analysis for all types of structures including industrial buildings, stadium/convention centres, office buildings, commercial and warehouse facilities, schools, churches, highway and pedestrian bridges, chimneys, tanks and standpipes, pressure vessels, wharves and breakwaters, roofing systems, navigation towers and fall arrest systems.

fga's Structural Engineering Department has been a major participant in the oil and gas industry on projects that include the Hibernia, Terra Nova, Sable Island, and White Rose projects that are located offshore Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia. For the offshore industry we have designed large industrial buildings; offshore shipping containers; flare booms; jump and slipforming concrete formwork systems; module support, loadout and transport; and ongoing maintenance design solutions.

The engineering design process includes the utilization of up-to-date in-house and purchased computer software, enabling three dimensional modelling of and size or shaped buildings, with a wide range of construction materials including structural steel, aluminium, plain, reinforced and precast concrete, timber, masonry, and fibre reinforced composites.

In addition, we provide technical services for shop drawing preparation, connection design and detailing, as well as structural steel inspection services. fga's Structural Engineering Department has provided civil engineering services to many clients including numerous municipalities, Provincial and Federal Governments. The civil projects have varied from water and sewer design to flood damage assessment and control.

Representative Projects (Structural Engineering)

• Capital Hotel, St. John's, Structural design of 5 storey hotel.
• Co-Design of $30 Million St. John's Convention Centre & Mile One Stadium.
• Structural design of Sandblasting and Paint Shop Facility at the major fabrication facilities located at Bull Arm site. Kilbride Road Bridge.
• Design and coordination of a 5000 tonne grillage support structure for the M20 module of the Hibernia Gravity Base Production System at the Bull Arm site.
• Open web steel joist (OWSJ) collapse investigations and remediation in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland & Labrador.
• Canadian Tire Stores - Corner Brook and St. John's.
• Kent's Store - Mount Pearl.
• Midland Courier Building.
• Canadian Coast Guard Tower Inspection Program.
• Fire Training Faculty, City of St. John's.
• Aquarena Re-roofing Project.
• Choices for Youth Services Centre
• Logy Bay Residence, Fortress Style
• Kilbride Road Bridge

Representative Projects (Civil Engineering)

• Sobeys, Shamrock Field.
• Site Services and Structural Design for $11 Million Project for Natuashish School, Sango Bay, Labrador.
• Sewage Pumping Station Extension, design and contract administration for the Town of Goose Bay, Labrador.
• Brookfield Ice Cream Industrial Waste Disposal System analysis and design.
• Community of St. Bernards flood damage control assessment and design.
• Fisheries Service Wharf and Facility, Punch Bowl, Labrador, design and contract administration.
• Ocean Sciences Centre - Memorial University
• Storm Water Retention Chamber - Midland Courier Building.