EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd. (EBA) has a well-earned reputation for innovation and excellence in the field of geotechnical engineering. We offer specialized engineering services for the mining, energy, transportation and development sectors.

Geotechnical Engineering
EBA provides engineering solutions to various project challenges ranging from terrain evaluation and site investigation to slope stability analysis and foundation design. We use state-of-the-art design and analysis software to assess deformation and over-stressing risks attributed to either construction loadings or environmental forces, such as earthquake or seepage. Our professional engineers are skilled in all foundation types and can customize unique optimum solutions where site conditions or facility requirements make normal techniques impractical.

EBA also offers a full suite of geotechnical engineering services for mine pit development, including resource modelling and wall design optimization.

Arctic Engineering
EBA has built an international reputation for creative, practical approaches to engineering projects in cold climates around the world. Our expertise has been applied in the arctic offshore to the first Beaufort Sea exploration drilling islands. Although a pioneer in arctic engineering, we remain at the forefront in the analysis of soil-pipe interaction loadings on well completions installed through deep permafrost, and have become the dominant designer of frozen core dams in the arctic for containment of mine supply water and tailings waste.

We also apply our integrated engineering and permitting services to road and pipeline route selection and development, and lead the advancement of ice-cover engineering to support heavier haulage requirements across winter ice roads.

Materials Engineering
EBA is a leader in materials testing techniques and in introducing new materials for pavement applications. We have advanced capabilities in pavements engineering, asphaltic concrete, Portland Cement concrete, as well as other materials engineering specialties.

EBA was the first Canadian firm to use nuclear densometers to measure insitu densities of engineered backfill; since then, we have developed numerous specialized laboratory equipment to measure the engineering properties of materials under several challenging situations. EBA offers state-of-the-art laboratory facilities for measuring soils undergoing frost-heave and creep; this type of testing requires precise control of applied ambient and measured response parameters.

EBA continues to be at the forefront of new pavement material applications, including stone matrix, warm mix and Superpave.

Hydrotechnical Engineering
Through acquisition of Hay & Company (Hayco), EBA has established a solid reputation of providing custom hydrotechnical engineering solutions to public and private sector clients in Canada and internationally. We provide expertise in river and coastal engineering, hydrology and geomorphology, oceanography and limnology, hydraulic engineering, and stormwater management. EBA is a leader in three-dimensional hydraulic and hydrodynamic numerical modelling, earning several awards of excellence.

Our services include planning, feasibility and impact studies through to conceptual and final designs, permitting, and construction management.

Engineering Geophysics
EBA delivers efficient and effective geophysical solutions to both standard and unique project challenges. We have the in-house expertise to deliver services in contact and non-contact resistivity surveys, seismic reflection/refraction surveys, magnetometer and gradiometer surveys, and ground penetrating radar surveys. In offshore and lake basin environments, we also provide skilled service using sidescan, multibeam bathymetry, subbottom profiling, and marine magnetometer equipment.

This broad equipment inventory, combined with our extensive project experience, allows EBA to custom design optimum data collection programs for a wide range of application needs, including bedrock profiling, borrow delineation, fill and muskeg thickness, ice-rich soil variability characterization, landfill delineation, groundwater/contaminant mapping, and archaeological investigations.

Mining Engineering
EBA offers a broad and comprehensive range of mining engineering services to the mining industry throughout our western and northern Canadian operations base.

We routinely conduct Scoping and Preliminary Economic Assessments and Pre-Feasibility/Feasibility Studies for mining projects in western Canada and worldwide. We have well qualified mining engineers and geologists on staff who can provide engineering and geoscience services to support all phases of planning and permitting of mine development from exploration, scoping, preliminary and detailed design, through to construction, operation, and reclamation. We are qualified to issue NI 43-101 reports and we have Qualified Persons on staff.