PCL family of companies - Civil Infrastructure

ONE-OF-A-KIND PROJECTS represent an opportunity to build exciting and challenging projects that become landmarks for the communities they represent.

Some civil projects having the same general characteristics of those you’ve done before and are the kind you repeatedly undertake, such as a traditional highway overpass structure. Then there are those one-of-a-kind projects that are unique from an aesthetic, structural or functional point of view. These exciting, challenging projects prove to be landmark structures in their communities.

Below, our clients and other construction partners talk about their experiences working on one-of-a-kind projects with the PCL family of companies:

Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge over Tennessee Route 96

This was the first segmental arch bridge built in the United States. The monumental bridge is a familiar site to those travelling the historic Natchez Trace Parkway trade route between Nashville, Tennesse and Natchez, Mississippi. The bridge is approximately 1650 feet in length and 160 feet above a highway (Route 96) and a creek on the valley floor. The project won over 15 national and international awards

Alex Fraser Bridge

Construction start: March 1984
Opened Sept. 23, 1986
Named after the late Alex Fraser, a long serving minister of transportation and highways
Cost $58 million, excluding approaches and highways
•2,525-metres long with a main span of 465 metres
Longest cable-stayed bridge in the world in 1986, held the world record in 1991 and the record for the Americas until 2005
At 154.3 metres high it the tallest structure in B.C. at the time, beating Vancouver’s Harbour Centre’s 148 metres
192 main cables, with lengths between 49.5 to 237.5 metres
Part of a multi-million project that included 32.5 km of new highways, 16 km of new roads, 37 small bridges

*Source: Ministry of Transportation

One-of-A-Kind Projects

ONE-OF-A-KIND PROJECTS represent an opportunity to build exciting and challenging projects that become landmarks for the communities they represent.