Moving and relocation
A building that changes address is still a building. Often it is the only option left when the land itself cannot stay.
When the land gives out, the structure can follow
Coastal erosion, an expropriation, a site closing, the relocation of an entire area: all of these ask the same question. Do we tear it down, or do we move it? In most cases moving costs less than rebuilding, and it saves months.
We move houses, apartment blocks, camps, control buildings and oversized equipment, on the same lot or to another site.
What makes a move possible
A move is first a question of load, access and schedule. We record the real load, the geometry of the structure, the condition of the route and the critical points along it: culverts, turns, grades, crossings, tides.
The equipment follows the structure, not the other way around. Removable axles, extendable platforms, purpose-made beams: when nothing existing will do, it gets fabricated.
Where it gets complicated
Coastal, island and northern settings are our ground. Tides, wind, ice and the frost window change the method, not just the calendar.
That is why the Onondaga submarine at Pointe-au-Père could be lifted and repositioned: the method proposed by an international player did not account for the tides of the St. Lawrence. Ours did.
Our territory
The Lower St. Lawrence and Gaspésie from Rimouski, the Magdalen Islands from our branch there, and work in Nunavik and Labrador.
A structure to lift or move?
We come to the site, survey the structure, the access and the constraints, then come back with a method and a fixed price.