Our Clients

Where We Work

At The Crossing Group, we’ll go to any length to ensure a successful and seamless project. That’s what we’ve been doing since 1997, and how we’ve become the proven leaders in trenchless construction.

Although we have completed projects for our clients around the world, our operations were initially focused in western North America along the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains. This is where we developed the operational and technical experience to address subsurface challenges created by extensive glaciation and the Cordilleran Deformation. This skill set, coupled with our technical orientation and cooperative approach, has resulted in a current expansion of services that are well suited to a broad range of leading edge and technically demanding projects.

“Success for us is completing a project and having no one know that we did it – other than the people we are working for.”

The map below shows some of the locations of projects we’ve completed throughout North America.

Clients We Work With

Construction

ARB Inc. (USA)
Associated Engineering Alberta Ltd.
BFI Constructors
Cantex Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd.
Chandos Construction
Graham Construction
Heritage Earthworks Contracting Ltd.
Kiewit
Ledcor Group
Mascaro Construction Company, L.P. (USA)
Mountain Cascade Inc. (USA)
PCL Builders Inc.
PCL Construction Management Inc.
Power Engineering Construction Co. (USA)
Southwest Contractors (USA)
Volker Stevin Canada

Utilities

Atco Energy Solutions
AltaGas Ltd.
BC Hydro
Enmax
Epcor
NW Natural (USA)
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (USA)
Peninsula Light & Power (USA)
Southern California Gas Company (USA)
Telus
TransAlta

Oil & Gas and Mining

AltaGas Ltd.
ARB Inc. (USA)
Associated Pipe Line Contractors Inc. (USA)
Athabasca Oilsands Project
Banister Pipelines
Canadian Natural Resources Limited
Chevron Canada
Chevron Pipeline (USA)
ConocoPhillips (USA)
Devon Energy Corporation
Dow Chemical Company
Enbridge Inc.
Encana Corporation
Henkels & McCoy Inc. (USA)
Husky Energy
Inter Pipeline
Kinder Morgan
Kinder Morgan Gas (USA)
Ledcor Pipelines
Macro Industries
Marathon Oil Canada Corporation
Michels Corporation (USA)
North West Redwater Partnership
Parkland Pipeline Contractors Ltd.
Pembina Pipeline Corporation
Rockford Corporation (USA)
SE Pipelines (USA)
Shell Canada Limited
Spectra Energy
Storm Exploration Inc.
Suncor Energy Inc.
Surerus Pipeline Inc.
Syncrude Canada
Talisman Energy Inc.
Targa Resources (USA)
Tesoro Corporation (USA)
TransCanada Corporation
Trans-Northern Pipelines Inc.
Willbros Group, Inc.
Williams Energy

Forestry & Agriculture

West Fraser

Government & Municipalities

British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure
City of St. Albert
City of Kamloops
City of Napa, CA (USA)
City of Prince George
City of Vancouver
City of Wetaskiwin

Transportation

Canadian National Railway Company
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.

TUNNEL BORING / PIPE JACKING

Tunnel Boring and Pipe Jacking Systems are used to hydraulically install underground pipelines up to 4.2 m (168 in) in OD range within strict alignment and grade tolerances. The likelihood of settling or sloughing is very low. Wheel machines are equipped with various cutter heads and sand shelves. A closed-face attachment is available for boring in unstable ground conditions. This versatile system can be easily adapted to work with any jacking pipe, in any pipe joint length. It can accommodate a wide range of pipe diameters.

Tunnel Boring Machines are used to excavate tunnels with a circular cross section through a variety of soil and rock strata. They can bore through hard rock, sand, and almost anything in between. Tunnel diameters can range from 1 m and exceed 15 m (3 ft to 49 ft).

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SLIP BORING

A boring technique commonly used for installing oil & gas pipelines ranging from 51 mm to 1067 mm (2 in to 42 in) in diameter without leaving casing in the ground. Product pipe is welded to steel casings and either pushed or pulled through the ground in sections. The casing is cut off and removed, leaving just the product pipe. Maximum installation length is 150 m (492 ft).

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DOWN THE HOLE HAMMER

A pneumatic hammer is attached to the inside edge of the casing. The front of the DTH breaks cobles, boulders and even solid rock into small pebbles or dust. The spoil makes its way through the hammer and into the casing, where it is removed by airway augers.

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GUIDED BORING

A Guided Boring Machine (GBM) is used to install 305 mm to 3.6 m diameter pipe (12 in to 144 in) with grade and alignment precision. It is commonly used for installations 50 m to 150 m in length (164 ft to 492 ft) or when line and grade accuracy is critical in displaceable soil. Our GBM is extremely versatile and our customers continually approach us with new applications.

The pipe installation involves a two-step process where launch and reception shafts are strategically located to minimize surface disruption. A pilot tube with a theodolite guidance system is then pushed through the ground at the precise grade and alignment specified in the design into the reception shaft. A reaming head is welded to the pilot tube and the casing and the pilot tube is used as a guide to install casing. The GBM can be used in conjunction with auger boring or pipe ramming methodologies.

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PNEUMATIC PIPE RAMMING

Pipe Ramming is used in a wide variety of soil types including gravel, cobble or sand. A pneumatic hammer is attached to the back of the casing pipe and driven through the material at any angle: from horizontal to vertical. The material is cleaned out of the pipe using an auger boring machine. Pipe Ramming methods are used for pipe diameters of 305 mm to 3.6 m (12 in to 144 in).

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