Her Honour the Honourable Antoinette Perry, Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island, presented Harbourside Engineering Consultants with the Engineers PEI Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Engineering Achievement last Thursday evening at Government House for the firm’s work on the Champlain Bridge Deconstruction Engineering project.

The Award recognizes an outstanding engineering project involving Engineers PEI members that reflects creative accomplishment in the application of engineering principle, excellence in engineering design, and demonstrates a high quality of Professional Engineering standards. The winning project should also enhance the image of the profession, show economic benefit, and highlight engineering leadership in the practice of engineering.

Named as the project’s Deconstruction Engineers, for the past three years, Harbourside’s engineers and drafters delivered the temporary works concept development, options analysis, and detailed design, along with value engineering exercises, global sequencing/phasing and site support services.

The bridge, joining Brossard to Montréal, Quebec, opened to vehicular traffic in 1962. This bridge, that spanned the St. Lawrence Seaway navigation channel, was a complex structure with concrete girder approach spans, structural steel approach spans, and a main steel span consisting of two anchor spans and a suspended span. Due to ongoing structural deterioration that was deemed unmanageable to maintain, the bridge was replaced by a new cable stayed bridge. At the time of its closure in 2019, the 3.4 km long, six-lane bridge was one of the busiest vehicular bridges in Canada. Deconstruction began in July 2020.

Learn more about the project: Harbourside Engineering Consultants Old Champlain Bridge Deconstruction, Montréal, QC