Montgomery Creek is an urban watercourse in Kitchener that was channelized in the 1960s to enable the development of the surrounding area. Due to the artificial shape of the creek and over 50 years of flows, the channel has degraded, and ongoing erosion threatens nearby infrastructure. Headwater Solutions has been retained to create a stable design for Montgomery Creek. Headwater’s design will employ cutting-edge techniques of river restoration to create a more natural channel morphology and harness nature’s forces, rather than resist them.

The Port Lands is an underdeveloped industrial area located in south-east Toronto. The rerouting of the Don River provides an opportunity for re: Development Inc. to create a mixed-used community that is mobility friendly, sustainable, and accessible, with the goal of reducing the need for auto-dependent transportation. The proposed development will feature a complete community that draws Torontonians to its many uses from morning to evening, including its elegant residential buildings, modern office spaces, lively public spaces and streets, and a nature-oriented boardwalk.

Our client situated in Victoria, BC, has entrusted us to help design their office building to a more modern aesthetic without total demolition. To adhere to these requests, GME Structural Consulting, has decided on providing 3 major renovations to the site: Doubling the height of the ceiling of the main lobby, adding an additional floor, and providing adequate seismic and vertical resistance systems to retain these new loads on the structure.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, communities in India struggled due to a lack of hospitals and quarantine facilities. PHaST Consulting was employed to design rapidly deployable relief shelters to accommodate a large capacity of people in the city of Mumbai and the surrounding rural areas. Our team has proposed an innovative, modular structure which can be assembled in a short amount of time, using prefabricated components. When required, this structure can be deconstructed and reconstructed in other locations with similar geographical conditions.

Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto, Ontario is to undergo the redevelopment of its surface parking into retail, hotel, office, and residential uses. Given the existing congestion in the area, the addition of these uses will significantly increase traffic and degrade the performance of the surrounding road network. MASAGO Inc. aims to address this issue through improvements to the surrounding road network, including the implementation of designated bus lanes and active transportation infrastructure. The resulting design will minimize traffic impact while improving cyclist and pedestrian safety.

The City of Guelph has requested that “No Cap”-Stone design a new pedestrian bridge to connect the Ward neighborhood to the Downtown area over the Speed River. This is due in part to some people currently using an unsafe railroad bridge crossing to travel between the two, which has resulted in many injuries and even deaths. “No Cap”-Stone has been tasked with designing an innovative and visually striking new bridge to offer a safe and useful alternative.

University Avenue is a major east-west transportation corridor in Waterloo, Ontario. Its current configuration is heavily car-oriented, despite high demand for non-auto travel along the street due to the vibrant, mixed-use community that it travels through. Faster Than Light Rail is therefore proposing an ambitious, future-focused redesign of the street to prioritize sustainable transportation and development through enhanced active transportation and dedicated transit facilities, and create an aesthetic, human-centered streetscape that reflects the spirit of innovation of the community and institutions that University Avenue serves.