Division Selection List Recent Projects Using Strand Jacks Project: CN Railway Bridge Location: Port Credit, Ontario Contact: Larry Eisses/Mark Carney For the GO Transit’s Lakeshore West corridor (West Toronto, Ontario) track time has become more precious than ever as it handles more than 60,000 commuters every working day. With increasing ridership, GO transit added a third track to the corridor. A potential bottleneck to the expansion was the Credit River Bridge, but Western was able to meet that challenge. The method of installation Western proposed to CN and GO Transit provided a safer and more-cost-effective alternative to the more common practice of assembling the bridge over open water; Western made it possible to assemble the bridge safely, a few feet from the ground. The bridge was hydraulically driven onto four railcars and shunted onto the existing bridge. The 330 Ton bridge was then driven under strand jacks and lowered into place. The installation took five hours as the next train needed to use the track, making the first run of passengers for the day. Using this unique lifting method, a safe solution to installing the bridge was made in a tight window of time without any interruptions to the commuter service. Photos by: H.B. Photo & Western Show photo gallery for this project View equipment used Project: Goreway Generating Station Location: Brampton, Ontario Contact: Dan Eisses Goreway Station is a natural gas powered electrical generating facility with a power output of 874MW in Brampton, Ontario. Essential to the power production, a 356 ton steam generator and a 136 ton steam turbine are housed more than sixty-five feet above ground. Posed with installing these two large components, Western developed a lifting apparatus using strand jack technology and gantry jacks. Since the Goreway Station project, Western has used similar rigging arrangements for many electrical generating facilities across Ontario. Show photo gallery for this project View equipment used Project: Halton Hills Generating Station Location: Halton Hills, Ontario Contact: Dan Eisses Halton Hills Generating Station is a facility with the capacity to generate power to approximately 600,000 homes. TransCanada has been awarded the contract to own and operate the 683 megawatt natural gas-fired power plant in the town of Halton Hills, Ontario. Using state-of-the-art low emissions technology and meeting high environmental standards, Halton Hills Generating Station is built to fulfill the Ontario Power Authority’s request for clean power generation. Western was awarded the heavy lift package for the entire Halton Hills project including transformers, combustion turbine and generator, HRSG modules, HP steam drums, HP and IP turbine, generator rotor and stator. Show photo gallery for this project View equipment used Project: Suncor Voyageur Project Location: Fort McMurray, Alberta Contact: Dan Eisses/Mark Carney Suncor Energy recovers bitumen ore from oil sands and upgrades it to refinery ready feedstock and diesel fuel near Fort McMurray, Alberta. Suncor Energy is taking part in the new ‘Voyageur‘ upgrade, part of a planned $20.6 billion oil sands expansion, with an expected additional 100,000 barrels of oils per day production. At the heart of this expansion, Western Mechanical has taken part in the delivery of Suncor’s four new refinery reactors. Fabricated in Japan, the 1.13 million pound reactors travelled by ship three quarters of the world, approaching Canada from the Atlantic and offloaded onto train in Thunderbay, Ontario. The reactor’s journey across the prairies was one of the largest load ever travelled on a Canadian railway. Once in Alberta, Western Mechanical assembled a 1.8 million pound capacity gantry using strand jack technology to trans-load the reactors from the railcars to a transport for their final journey. Taking simple methods and applying it to new technology, Western was an essential connection to Suncor Voyageur’s success. Show photo gallery for this project View equipment used
Recent Projects Using Strand Jacks
For the GO Transit’s Lakeshore West corridor (West Toronto, Ontario) track time has become more precious than ever as it handles more than 60,000 commuters every working day. With increasing ridership, GO transit added a third track to the corridor. A potential bottleneck to the expansion was the Credit River Bridge, but Western was able to meet that challenge. The method of installation Western proposed to CN and GO Transit provided a safer and more-cost-effective alternative to the more common practice of assembling the bridge over open water; Western made it possible to assemble the bridge safely, a few feet from the ground. The bridge was hydraulically driven onto four railcars and shunted onto the existing bridge. The 330 Ton bridge was then driven under strand jacks and lowered into place. The installation took five hours as the next train needed to use the track, making the first run of passengers for the day. Using this unique lifting method, a safe solution to installing the bridge was made in a tight window of time without any interruptions to the commuter service. Photos by: H.B. Photo & Western
Goreway Station is a natural gas powered electrical generating facility with a power output of 874MW in Brampton, Ontario. Essential to the power production, a 356 ton steam generator and a 136 ton steam turbine are housed more than sixty-five feet above ground. Posed with installing these two large components, Western developed a lifting apparatus using strand jack technology and gantry jacks. Since the Goreway Station project, Western has used similar rigging arrangements for many electrical generating facilities across Ontario.
Halton Hills Generating Station is a facility with the capacity to generate power to approximately 600,000 homes. TransCanada has been awarded the contract to own and operate the 683 megawatt natural gas-fired power plant in the town of Halton Hills, Ontario. Using state-of-the-art low emissions technology and meeting high environmental standards, Halton Hills Generating Station is built to fulfill the Ontario Power Authority’s request for clean power generation. Western was awarded the heavy lift package for the entire Halton Hills project including transformers, combustion turbine and generator, HRSG modules, HP steam drums, HP and IP turbine, generator rotor and stator.
Suncor Energy recovers bitumen ore from oil sands and upgrades it to refinery ready feedstock and diesel fuel near Fort McMurray, Alberta. Suncor Energy is taking part in the new ‘Voyageur‘ upgrade, part of a planned $20.6 billion oil sands expansion, with an expected additional 100,000 barrels of oils per day production. At the heart of this expansion, Western Mechanical has taken part in the delivery of Suncor’s four new refinery reactors. Fabricated in Japan, the 1.13 million pound reactors travelled by ship three quarters of the world, approaching Canada from the Atlantic and offloaded onto train in Thunderbay, Ontario. The reactor’s journey across the prairies was one of the largest load ever travelled on a Canadian railway. Once in Alberta, Western Mechanical assembled a 1.8 million pound capacity gantry using strand jack technology to trans-load the reactors from the railcars to a transport for their final journey. Taking simple methods and applying it to new technology, Western was an essential connection to Suncor Voyageur’s success.
