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are employed by the company but that can go as high as 200,
says Dersch.
The company does the following deep foundation work:
• Drilled shafts/caissons
• Driven piles
• Sheet piles
• Helical piles
Ledcor Foundations also does specialized retention structures,
such as cofferdams and retaining walls, as well as
excavation support.
Powerful pile driving hammer
The company’s equipment fleet includes what’s probably the
largest land-based, hydraulic pile driving hammer based in
Western Canada, according to Dersch. The hammer, which
is mounted to a 200-tonne crawler crane, was recently
used to drive piles at Suncor’s Fort Hills Oil Sands Project
in Alberta.
The powerful hammer did an effective job of pounding in
3,000 open-ended, 30-inch diameter, steel piles for the project.
“The advantage is we don’t have to switch hammers as
often as we do using traditional driving methods. And it
delivers high efficiency energy into the pile, which increases
production,” said Dersch.
Ledcor Foundations was founded 10 years ago to do the
deep foundation work for large capital projects undertaken
by the Ledcor Group of Companies in the oil sands patch in
northeast Alberta.
“The idea was to support our industrial operation up in
the Fort McMurray oil sands. It was a vital piece for us for
securing large contracts with the major oil sands players like
Imperial Oil, Shell and Suncor, for builds up there. It’s worked
out extremely well,” said Dersch.
Most of the work continues to be in northern Alberta
and northeast British Columbia, primarily in the oil and gas
sector, but the company’s also done deep foundation work
for mining and infrastructure projects.
Dersch says the company is looking for opportunities in
other markets as it moves to expand business beyond its oil
and gas core. The Ledcor Group of Companies has its sights
set on large-scale infrastructure projects that governments
in Western Canada are planning to undertake in the next few
years, and depending on the project, Ledcor Foundations
will likely play an important role in successful bids.
“Where we come in and offer the most value is when we
complete the whole project,” said Dersch. “What we bring as
a specific deep foundation contractor is we understand more
than just the foundations perspective – we understand what
the critical path of the whole overall schedule and the overall
project, which helps define the clients needs and better fulfill
those needs.
“It’s very, very helpful and beneficial,” he said. “We’re going
to be using the experience that we’ve developed over the last
10 years and our technical expertise in deep foundation solutions
and applying that to some innovative design builds and
techniques in the new industries.”
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