What We Do

Our Focus

Civil & Transportation Engineering

Our civil & transportation engineering team specializes in designing and managing infrastructure that supports the efficient and safe movement of people and goods. Whether it's optimizing traffic flow or planning for future growth, we bring expertise and creativity to every project.

Core Offerings:

  • Roadway design, including highways, arterials, and local roads

  • Interchange and intersection design

  • Public transit infrastructure design and optimization

  • Active Transportation design

  • Construction staging and detour design

Value Engineering

Value Engineering is integrated into our design process to create innovative, cost-effective transportation solutions. We have contributed to major Value Engineering workshops, developing design options and identifying construction staging and detour strategies supporting proposed concepts.

Core Offerings:

  • Optioneering

  • Coordination of design solutions across multidisciplinary teams

  • Order of magnitude quantity and cost estimating

  • Multiple account evaluation of options

  • Design criteria development and identification of design variances

Owner’s Engineer & Project Delivery

Our team possesses substantial experience in Design Build projects across various delivery models, such as DB, DBFO, Alliance, and Progressive frameworks. This comprehensive background in transportation design has enabled us to serve as Owner’s Engineer on significant infrastructure projects.

Core Offerings:

  • Serve as subject matter experts

  • Develop conceptual designs and generate Reference Concept Drawings

  • Stakeholder and public engagement

  • Develop procurement and project agreement documents

  • Review and evaluate Design Builder submissions

Featured Projects

Surrey-Langley SkyTrain Extension

Extension of the SkyTrain Expo Line from the existing King George Station to the City of Langley. The project included eight new stations with three having transit exchanges. The project also involved significant roadway and intersection improvements and incorporated a major Active Transportation corridor paralleling the guideway.

The VEC team managed the reference concept design, which featured active transportation. The owner's engineer worked closely with BC MOTT, municipalities, TransLink, and other stakeholders throughout the process. VEC was also responsible for developing project agreement procurement documents for the civil transportation components. Throughout the design and implementation phase, our responsibilities included reviewing the Design Builder’s design submissions to verify their adherence to the project agreement and established design guidelines. Frequent meetings with the design team promoted effective collaboration between the Owner and Design Builder, helping advance the design and construction.

Location: Surrey/Langley, BC 

Project Owner: TI Corp

Fraser Valley Highway 1 Corridor Improvements

Widening and upgrading of 20 km of the TransCanada Highway, from 264th Street in Langley to Highway 11 in Abbotsford, BC. The project was divided into four major design (Design-Bid-Build) packages and two Design Build packages at the 264th/Highway 13 and Highway 11 interchanges.

VEC supported the Owner in reviewing Highway 1 corridor design packages to ensure technical accuracy and guideline compliance. For two design-build interchanges, VEC managed reference concept design, prepared agreement documents for civil components, and evaluated bid submissions. Weekly technical meetings between the OE and Design Builder helped achieve successful project completion.

Location: Langley, BC to Abbotsford, BC

Project Owner: BC Ministry of Transportation and Transit

Fraser River Tunnel

The project involves the construction of a new eight-lane immersed tube tunnel (ITT), an eight-lane Deas Island Bridge, and connections to the existing Highway 99 between Steveston Highway and Highway 17A. Additionally, the project includes temporary construction facilities and the decommissioning of both the existing George Massey Tunnel.

The VEC team was responsible for developing the alignment and geometry for the new tunnel and the highway approaches to the tunnel. The team undertook the design and modeling for the new highway infrastructure for both the preliminary and detailed design phases. Additionally, VEC was tasked with developing the complex construction staging and detour design, which included the staging of major utility relocations and ground improvements (preload/surcharge), while maintaining the counterflow traffic and ITS operations through the existing tunnel until the new tunnel is constructed. Workshop meetings played a crucial role in facilitating collaboration, resulting in designs that were both cost-effective and efficient.

Location: Delta/Richmond, BC 

Project Owner: TI Corp