Chicoutimi Spillways - Arnaud Bridge and Garneau Falls
The July 1996 flood destroyed these Chicoutimi River spillways. Pomerleau was contracted to recreate them, incorporating the revised calculations for probable maximum flood. Working in winter on sites 2 km apart and with an extremely tight schedule, Pomerleau placed 15,000 m3 of concrete in 3 ...
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Laviolette Bridge - Phases II and III
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Le Gardeur Bridge
Opened in 1939, and faithfully serving thousands of commuters ever since, the Le Gardeur Bridge is a key component of the Montreal regional highways network. An extension of Highway 138, it spans the Rivière des Prairies and connects the cities of Repentigny and Montreal, providing a good ...
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LG-1 Hydroelectric Generating Station
The first run-of-the-river generating station of the James Bay project necessitated 401,000 m3 of concrete, 290,000 m2 of formwork and 19,000 tons of reinforcing steel. Pomerleau completed an average of 7 to 12 concrete pours per day. In total, 86,000 m3 of concrete were placed between June and ...
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Montmorency Subway Station, lot C07
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Port of Montreal - Deepening of Berths 58 to 61
Pomerleau supplied all the necessary services to construct an underwater retaining wall in order to stabilize and deepen 650 linear metres of berths in the Port of Montreal, Racine Terminal. Pomerleau was also responsible for the procurement of materials.Over the years, the berths' caissons have ...
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Queen's Wharf
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Ravensview Water Treatment Plant
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Rivière-aux-Mulets Bridge (reconstruction)
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Saint-Georges Water Treatment Plant
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Station de métro Cartier
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Taschereau Interchange
This is one of the busiest interchanges on Montreal’s South Shore and needed to be rebuilt to manage the increased volume of both normal and daily commuter traffic. Pomerleau’s mandate involved: Construction of 7 new viaducts (3-lane divided highway plus bus and train overpasses); ...
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Allard Bridge
The 330 m Allard Bridge is part of Highway 117, which runs northwest-southeast, connecting the main centres of Abitibi-Témiscaminque and linking the region with Montreal. The most interesting feature of this project was the use of High Strength Concrete for the bridge, one of the most important ...
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Beauce Highway Bridges
As part of the extension of Highway 73 between Vallée-Jonction and Saint-Joseph de Beauce, Pomerleau constructed 5 highway bridges. The work was completed in two phases, the first from April to November 1990 and the second from May to July 1991.The most critical and challenging part of this job was ...
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CFB Bagotville, CF-18 Servicing Facilities
This project was carried out near the CF-18 landing strip on the grounds of CFB Bagotville, a Canadian air force base. It involved the demolition of two outmoded hangars and the construction of a new 10,500 m2 CF-18/AWAC hangar, including an administrative area measuring 4,646 m2. A rigid steel ...
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CFB Halifax
A $19M contract for the new Combat System Repair Facility on the Halifax naval base was awarded to the Pomerleau Cardinal Joint Venture to construct and commission a four-storey building with a surface area of 13,850 m2 to be used as a repair facility for electronic and computer equipment used on ...
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Galipeault Bridge
In 2007, the Quebec Ministry of Transportation embarked upon the rebuild of the south side of the Galipeault Bridge, the Highway 20 connection between Ïle Perrot and the Island of Montreal.
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Hydro-Québec Bersimis 1 Control House/Hydroelectric Generating Station
Pomerleau renovated and enlarged the control house by building a concrete structure between the existing building and the cliff. The rock had to be dynamited with extreme care, keeping the shock waves below normal levels so as not to affect the station's installations and electrical equipment.The ...
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Hydro-Quebec La Tuque Power Generating Station and Adjacent Tunnels
In addition to constructing a 2-storey, 2,300 m2 building between the dam and the water intake, Pomerleau constructed a 2-storey building, 101 m long by 5.4 m wide, on top of the existing control and battery center.This involved: Demolition of the existing walls and removal of the roof membrane to ...
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Hydro-Québec Tracy Thermal Power Station (Workshop and Stores)
In 1996, Pomerleau enlarged the workshop and store, constructed 3 small travelling cranes (1 ton and 3 tons) and a shelving system. We also renovated the main entrance and surrounding rooms, the façade of the administrative offices, the parking lot and the underground conduit system. The extensions ...
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Hydro-Quebec, Appalaches Power Substation
The construction of the underground foundations as well as the network of electrical conduit blocks, the gutters and the grounding network constituted the major portion of the contract to build this new 735 kV station for Hydro-Québec. Phase I A road was built to link the site with the main ...
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Hydro-Québec, Grand-Mère Power Generating Station
Operating underneath a 24.3 waterfall, the Grand-Mère power station on the Saint Maurice River is equipped with three Kaplan turbine-alternator groups and generates 220 MW. Pomerleau’s mandate included the architectural finishing of the entire interior of the station, including the offices, ...
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Hydro-Quebec, Head Race Tunnel and Channel Head Sainte-Marguerite 3 (SM3)
The water intake or channel head is the point of entry into the headrace tunnel. Water flows from the reservoir into the intake, located next to the dam, and makes its way to the power station. The water intake portal has an 8.2 m wide by 16.5 m high gate that can be used to seal off the entrance ...
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Intermunicipal Wastewater Treatment Plant
Pomerleau was mandated to construct an intermunicipal wastewater treatment plant to serve the more than 35,000 people of St-Nicolas, Bernières, Charny and St-Rédempteur. The firm was responsible for excavation, site preparation and landscaping, structures, processing equipment and mechanics, ...
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Laurier-Taché Parking
Pomerleau’s mandate was divided into two steps: renovation of the parking facility and work on two important arteries over a total distance of 2 kilometres.The repair of the parking facility took place on the top level of the structure. The damaged concrete and the reinforcing steel were ...
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Magnola Magnesium Production Plant
Magnola extracts magnesium from mine tailings.Pomerleau was awarded the following contracts: Electrolysis facility A) 40,000 m2 of formwork and 18,000 m3 of concrete for the foundations and structure. B) Refractory concrete coating of the entire slab (5,576 m2), using an aluminium-based concrete ...
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Multifunctional Overpass
This innovative pedestrian/cyclist bridge crosses the Magog River in the centre of downtown Sherbrooke.This was the first bridge project in the world to use an ultra-high-performance concrete, Reactive Powder Concrete (RPC), a high strength ductile material formulated from a special combination of ...
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Norsk-Hydro Magnesium Plant
As General Contractor, Pomerleau was mandated to construct 4 new plant buildings. The main building houses the process equipment and consists of a 7-storey superstructure of reinforced concrete. To complete this contract quickly within the 5-month schedule, the Pomerleau team employed jump works 9 ...
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Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport - Phase II (enlargement)
Pomerleau's mandate covered the expansion of the domestic and international sectors (total area of 16,800 m²), rehabilitation of the elevated roadway and fitting up Air Canada's Maple Leaf Lounge.
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Quebec Urban Community (CUQ), Wastewater Treatment Plant, Eastern Station, Beauport
The Eastern Station of the CUQ Wastewater Treatment Plant serves a population of 270,000 and has a treatment capacity of 231,000 m3/day. It processes wastewater from a 130 km long regional network of sewer interceptors and collectors equipped with 19 pumping stations. Pomerleau delivered the civil ...
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Réseau de transport de la Capitale (RTC) - Metrobus Service Centre
Construction of a new Metrobus Service Centre on Armand-Viau Street in Quebec City for the new articulated buses that will be put in service in the summer of 2009.
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Rivière des Prairies Tunnel
This contract was part of a work package to extend the subway from the Henri-Bourassa terminus in Montreal to the future Cartier station in Laval, by means of a tunnel underneath the Rivière-des-Prairies near the Viau Bridge.Even though the layer of rock between the river bottom and the vault of ...
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Sartigan Dam
Pomerleau was mandated to perform the following work:Restoring the concrete surfaces of the pillars and the corbels, to the depth of one metre;Restoring the lateral walls of the time-worn, corroded sluices;Rebuilding three of the four walls of the service well by demolishing a metre of concrete, ...
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Société de transport de Montréal (STM) - Legendre Centre (enlargement) and Body Shop (construction)
Pomerleau has been contracted by the STM, Montreal’s public transit authority, to carry out this two-year major facility enlargement project.
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Swan Creek Lake Bridges
Pomerleau constructed two bridges (157 m long and 12 m wide) over Swan Creek Lake, one of the 4 major water crossings by New Brunswick’s new four-lane Fredericton-Moncton highway 40 high-strength prestressed concrete beams, 40 m long and weighing approximately 50 t each, to support the ...
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Wastewater Treatment Plant
Pomerleau constructed an activated sludge oxidation ditch wastewater treatment plant for the City of Chicoutimi. The plant can treat 80,000 m3 of wastewater per day. Site preparation: dynamiting, excavation of 50,000 m3 of rock, site backfilling, construction of the access road and laying ...
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