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What is Sealcoating and Why Are We Doing it on BC Highways?

May 17, 2024May 14, 2015 119 Comments

No, we aren’t making jackets for cold little seals, although that is a nice thought – isn’t it? Sealcoating is actually a common type of road resurfacing done on BC highways. It involves the application

Categories Road Maintenance

Why Are Workers Doing the Safety Dance on the Sea-to-Sky?

August 31, 2022March 23, 2015 Leave a comment

No, the shoe-soaking shuffle displayed above is not British Columbia’s answer to Gangnam Style. These moves make more sense. The crew is installing articulated matting where Charles Creek flows into Howe Sound as part of

Categories BC Infrastructure, Engineering

Driving Divided Freeways in BC: 7 Tips You Need to Know

October 26, 2018December 11, 2014 10 Comments

There are many kinds of highways in BC: Rural highways, urban highways, primary highways, secondary highways, freeways and expressways just to name a few. Each type of highway serves a different purpose. For example, a

Categories BC Road Trips, Shift into Winter, Tips and How Tos

Meet ARAN – the “Flashy” Road Analyzing Tool

August 18, 2022December 8, 2014 2 Comments

What has three colours of flashing lights and travels up to 80 kilometres an hour on BC highways while simultaneously gathering more than 10,000 measurements per second? It’s ARAN – the Automatic Road Analyzer! We

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4 Paths to Protecting Painted Turtles in the Creston Valley

June 10, 2022October 8, 2014 2 Comments

Turns out the saying about “location, location, location” holds true for turtles as well as humans. Gravel and sand with a sunny southern exposure… If you were selling real estate to Western Painted Turtles ready to lay

Categories Environment, Wildlife

How We Helped Protect 1000s of Years of BC History on Vancouver Island

June 24, 2022September 17, 2014 6 Comments

Along the shores of the Tseycum First Nation on Vancouver Island, we worked in partnership with the Tseycum people to prevent a portion of the Patricia Bay beach from eroding and washing out West Saanich

Categories Engineering, Environment, Wildlife

Why We Had To Say ‘Goodbye’ to the Old Spences Bridge

June 10, 2022September 14, 2014 5 Comments

We received a number of questions asking why we closed the Old Spences Bridge. There are a number of things we took into consideration before making the decision, but here’s the scoop: The Old Spences

Categories BC Infrastructure, BC Travellers, Engineering

Drive a BC Highway in 15,000 Photos

August 29, 2022August 22, 2014 12 Comments

Ever hear of a kineograph? We hadn’t until now, but we knew about the more common term for the same thing: a “flip book”. You’ve probably seen them before – a thick book filled with

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