Market Experience
Kiewit Canadian Resources District specializes in a wide range of projects including mine site development and open pit operations, hydroelectric powerhouses, wind power plants, dams and transmission lines. We pride ourselves on safely delivering quality projects on time and within budget.
Lac de Gras Constructors, a Kiewit-led joint venture, completed three contracts from January 2000 to March 2003 to construct portions of this diamond mine south of the Arctic Circle. A major feature of the project was the 3.9-km. water retention dike that encircles the diamond deposits – the first dike of its kind constructed in Canada.
Construction Kiewit Cie was awarded the first of four contracts to perform infrastructure work at the Raglan nickel mine in the Canadian Arctic. The owner's satisfaction with these early contracts was a key factor in selecting a Kiewit-led team to provide seven years of open-pit mining.
With winter temperatures below -20C, crews faced special challenges on the Voisey’s Bay Nickel Mine design-build project. Mobilization of personnel, materials and equipment resources was critical to meeting schedule objectives. Operations were concentrated in four major areas–the mine area, mill site, port site, and permanent airstrip and docking facilities.
Scheduled for completion in December 2012, a Kiewit-led partnership will supply cranes for the erection of GE 1.5-megawatt (MW) wind turbines with a total capacity of 740 MW. Located across six wind farms, two Manitowoc 16000 cranes and one Manitowoc 2250 crane will be used to perform the work.
This $392 million engineer-procure-construct contract consists of six separate run-of the-river hydroelectric projects. Each project is comprised of an intake structure, a penstock, a powerhouse and a tailrace channel.
Due to severe infiltration and stability problems, the original Shikwamkwa Dam had to be replaced with a new one constructed approximately 300 metres downstream. The new, $70 million dam is a zoned earth and rock fill structure with an impervious till core, filter zones and outside shells of sand, gravel and riprap. The dam has a crest elevation of 315 metres and a crest length of 500 metres.