Ottawa LRT

Project Location:

Ottawa, ON

Completion:

2018 (Phase 1)

Project description:

ART Engineering Inc. has been commissioned by multiple contracting companies to act as a structural engineering consultant for the Ottawa Light Rail Transit (OLRT) project. Arguably the most important infrastructure project in Ottawa's recent history, the OLRT project will improve the transportation system in the nation's capital by allowing trains to travel through the downtown core, while improving the existing infrastructure to support the new system.

Project description:

We have provided specific finite element models of the original Lees Avenue structure, Riverside Drive structure, Hurdman Rideau River structure, and the East Transit Way structure. Each analysis was organized to accurately model non-traditional loading cases (rapid transportation of one bridge over another) or demolition tasks.

AEI services included:

Canadian certification of the Italian Petrucci System (designed to jack a pre-constructed tunnel under an active rail).

Roadway protection and temporary bridge designs.

Crane rail protection systems.

Structural member design and engineered system reviews.

Bridge jacking procedures.

Concrete formwork and temporary access scaffold designs.

QVE reinforcing steel inspections.

Accelerated bridge construction and temporary bridge designs.

Tunnel jacking procedures.

Reinforced concrete slab and ramp design.

Companies Involved:

OLRT Constructors

EllisDon Corporation

R.W. Tomlinson Ltd.

Access Rigging Services Inc.

Petrucco USA LLC.

Dragados Canada Inc.

Harris Rebar

Dufresne Piling Company Ltd.

David S. Laflamme Construction Inc.

Hughson Group