"Every day I seek out the most significant challenge facing our clients and help our team to deal with it."
Aubrey Palmeter, P.Eng
President & CEO
Aubrey Palmeter, P.Eng
President & CEO
Structural engineers see things built on a huge scale: buildings, bridges, big steel, concrete. When engineering of that magnitude is not done well, it creates huge-scale problems. Good engineering starts with good listening skills and an analytical, calculating mind, followed up with an unwavering focus on the approaches and innovations that make the best sense.
When we visit a job site with an existing structure, system, or problem, our goal is to strike a carefully considered balance. We listen well, assess collaboratively and with a wealth of expertise, observe the environment, conditions, people, and problems, and come back with a solution that takes all those elements into account. The best solutions are thorough solutions—good ideas executed well for long-term performance and safety.
When DSTN acquired the former Trenton Works plant, they needed to take a building originally built in the 1890’s for railcar fabrication to a state-of-the-art wind power plant. EastPoint delivered new power and mechanical system design and construction support, with upgrades to a variety of liquid, gas and electrical systems in support of the new mandate.
Before travelling through the subsea cable to Nova Scotia, all the power generated in Newfoundland and Labrador comes together at a switch yard. EastPoint designed the foundations and the 30m high lattice fabricated gantry towers, where every main wire is hung when they come into the plant.
Part of a $600 million job, EastPoint was an integral part of building the Maritime Link, both in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador. The converter station buildings are 3,600 sq. ft. buildings, and designed specifically for a post disaster seismic zone which used an innovative super structure to suspend heavy equipment.
A 100 ft bridge critical to the community of Southbrook in Nova Scotia, this EastPoint design build project installed a lightweight wood and steel composite bridge in two segments. First, the existing bridge was removed and half the new bridge lowered in, so the community could still use the bridge during the project. After building two abutments, the second bridge segment was lowered into place and connected for form the full structure safely and effectively.