Civil
Site work, concrete and bridges, built to last.
From clearing and servicing a site to rehabilitating a bridge that carries traffic every day.
OVC’s civil division delivers the groundwork and structures that infrastructure depends on. We work for municipalities, federal custodians and private developers, and we hold RBQ authorization for civil engineering structures, excavation and site work.
Services
Quality management — ISO 9001 in progress
We are implementing an ISO 9001 quality management system for our Quebec civil works, pursued specifically to meet Ministère des Transports du Québec requirements. Third-party audits are scheduled to follow.
No certification has yet been issued, and no ISO mark appears on this site until it is.
Safety and quality in civil work
Traffic management, work near water, confined spaces and lifting operations are planned and controlled on every job.
Under the deck
Cleaning is maintenance.
Most bridge deterioration starts with what is left sitting on the structure. Chloride-laden slush packs onto girder flanges and bearing seats, drains clog, water ponds against concrete and steel, and corrosion begins where nobody can see it. Thorough, regular cleaning of the deck, joints, bearings and substructure removes the salts and debris that drive that process, keeps drainage working, and gives inspectors a clean surface to assess. It is the least expensive work a bridge will ever receive — and done by people who know what they are looking at, it adds years to the service life of everything above it.
The bridges we inherited
The Interprovincial Bridge — today the Alexandra Bridge — was erected across the Ottawa River between Hull and Ottawa in 1900. Structures like it are still carrying traffic more than a century later for one reason: someone has kept maintaining them. That is the tradition our civil crews work in.
