Abstracts

BGC - is an applied earth sciences and engineering consulting services company. It is a Canadian
corporation registered in 1990 and 100% owned by its staff. The company was originally
founded by Drs. Iain Bruce, P.Eng., P.Geo., and Wayne Savigny, P.Eng., P.Geo., both of
whom believed that engineering geology principles could be better integrated into geotechnical
engineering assessments. Currently, BGC has approximately 280 staff in nine offices, at the
following locations; Vancouver and Kamloops, BC; Edmonton and Calgary, AB; Toronto, ON;
Fredericton, NB; Halifax, NS; Golden (CO), USA; and Santiago, Chile.
BGC provides specialist services in applied earth sciences with emphasis on the following disciplines:
• Geotechnical engineering
• Geoenvironmental engineering,
(soil and rock mechanics)
contaminated site management and
• Permafrost and cold regions engineering remediation design and management
• Terrain analysis, geohazard assessment • Mine closure planning, design and
and engineering geology
construction monitoring
• Hydrogeology, hydrology and surface • Engineering risk assessment.
water assessments
BGC offers consulting services to private and publicly-traded companies and government
agencies, as well as sub-consulting services to prime consultants, in the following industries:
• Mining
• Water resources
• Oil sands
• Waste management
• Pipelines
• Transportation (road and rail)
• Forestry
• Energy / Hydroelectric
power
BGC’s assignments vary from scoping and pre-feasibility level studies to detailed design, routing
evaluations, construction inspection, contract management, and independent third-party
review. BGC has also coordinated environmental impact statements, and prepared containment
and control reports for regulatory authorities.
BGC is first and foremost a specialist in applied earth sciences and numerous staff have both
professional engineering and geology designations. BGC employs numerous geoscientists,
geomorphologists and hydrologists to complement our engineering skill sets. As a result of
our familiarity with geology and its implications for engineered structures, BGC has a sincere
appreciation of the drivers of success (and failure) within mining projects, especially for mine
design and scoping to feasibility studies.
BGC is an employee-owned company with a flat management structure. All of BGC works
together as one team, with no profit centers or technical divisions. This ‘One Team’ approach
gives every client access to all of BGC’s resources, and allows us to assemble the best team of
professional and support staff for each and every project, regardless of the project location. We
are of sufficient size to offer a full range of services, while maintaining one-to-one contact between
our senior consultants and the client.
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