Services
BlueFox Engineering has the comprehensive expertise to support your trenchless crossing projects. We provide planning, investigation, engineering, design, tendering and construction management services for pipeline and conduit crossings of every scale.
Our integrated approach ensures optimization of costs, schedule and resources from concept to execution by aligning the goals of environmental, geotechnical, engineering, and construction services.
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Project Management
We utilize the fundamentals of the Project Management Institute to ensure the proper processes are in place to plan, execute, monitor, and control projects of any size.
Our project managers take a hands-on approach to deliver optimized trenchless solutions to the highest quality standards. We use a management style centered on communication, ensuring our clients are fully aware of their project's status without being inundated with excess information.
- Crossing concepts
- Cost and schedule estimates
- Risk management
- Resource management
- Monitoring and controls
- Close-out and lessons learned
- Planning and preparation
- Railway Crossing Applications
- Code of Practice Applications
- Highway Crossing Applications
Planning & Investigation
We work with project stakeholders to evaluate the feasibility, economics, risks, and constraints of a trenchless crossing from the beginning. This process allows us to develop a tailored execution plan for engineering design.
We aim to ensure that every investigation has a purpose, whether fulfilling design requirements or identifying construction risks. Proper planning allows us to optimize project execution, meet client objectives, and satisfy regulatory requirements. A properly planned project minimizes our client’s exposure to environmental and economic risks.
- Route analysis and crossing location scouting
- Crossing feasibility assessment
- Right-of-way and workspace details
- Access planning
- Front end engineering and design (FEED)
- Cost, schedule, and risk profiles
Geotechnical & Environmental
We maintain strategic alliances with our industry colleagues to offer geotechnical investigation and environmental services that complement our trenchless expertise.
We are aligned with industry partners specializing in geotechnical, hydrotechnical, geophysical and environmental services. Proper investigation and understanding of the crossing conditions are invaluable in determining the feasibility and risk mitigation of a trenchless project. We work with local environmental and geotechnical experts who better understand unique regional characteristics.
- Desktop studies
- Site reconnaissance
- Subsurface program scoping and implementation
- Geotechnical and geophysical investigations
- Scour and Hydrotechnical analysis
- Professional environmental services
- Permitting and regulatory applications
- Water quality and turbidity monitoring
- Drilling fluid waste management
- Water sourcing
- Surface Fluid Release Monitoring
Engineering & Design
We develop effective solutions for each project using engineering processes on the trenchless industry’s leading edge.
We ensure the overall crossing solution satisfies the project objective during the engineering design process. Our professional engineering services provide assessments, studies, designs, and executable project plans, drawings, and reports.
- Detailed trenchless crossing designs
- Pipe lifting and pullback designs
- Pipeline pullhead designs
- Buoyancy control design
- CSA code and stress calculations
- Construction specifications
- Annular pressure and hydrofracture modeling
- Detailed design and construction reports
- Third party engineering review
- Rig Anchor design
- Thrust Block design
- Surface Casing Wave analysis
Tendering & Procurement
We support clients to acquire the appropriate resources to execute each trenchless crossing successfully.
Our industry experience allows us to align project owners with contractors and service providers who can meet each project’s unique needs. We help develop the ideal procurement strategy for each client and project by considering factors such as risk tolerance, desired schedule, and technical complexity.
- Tender specifications
- Contract administration
- Requests for bids/tenders/proposals
- Tender hosting
- Technical response during bidding
- Technical and commercial tender evaluation
- Contractor/subcontractor acquisition
- Bid spread analysis
- Request for information response
- Contract strategy consultation
- Construction scope of work packages
Construction Management
Our construction services team provides on-site construction management and trenchless inspection during the execution of crossing projects.
Construction personnel specializing in trenchless execution help provide a direct link from the field to the office. With 24-hour on-site support, we work diligently to maximize efficiency and reduce downtime, all while ensuring compliance with engineering plans and specifications.
- Construction coordination
- Supervision and inspection
- Safety program implementation
- Cost control
- Schedule tracking
- Quality assurance
- Contract administration
- On-site technical support
- As-built drawings
- Field engineering
- Navigational data verification
- Daily reporting
Remote Environmental Monitoring
Changing seasonal conditions, night time inspection, large watercourses, wetlands, inaccessible, steep or overgrown terrain can be difficult to traverse or impractical to safely enter with conventional methods.
Through our industry partnerships, BlueFox deploys the latest UAV equipment affixed with cameras and thermal sensors to monitor for drilling fluid release to surface. All UAV’s are controlled by professional licensed pilots to perform inspection services meeting regulatory requirements in both controlled and un-controlled airspace. Aerial inspections are capable of detecting drilling fluid surface release, wildlife travel, monitor construction and personnel for environmental and safety compliance. In-stream and underwater environmental monitoring can be remotely performed in the harshest environments otherwise not accessible on foot using submersible sondes and the latest underwater robotic vehicles.
- Baseline & grid-based detection system of conditions
- Aerial monitoring
- Drilling fluid release detection
- Wildlife sighting and recording
- Construction progress monitoring
- Night time monitoring
- Surface and volumetric calculations
- Live webmap & reporting
- Aquatic habitat detection
- Low impact to surroundings
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