Odd Site Operations

Innovative Drilling works on sites where others can’t imagine construction taking place. Their machinery and crews have the capability and experience to allow them to work safely in extremely remote and limiting sites. The company has performed inside the powerhouse of a hydroelectric dam and within the interior of a bank vault.

A machine and two men were suspended 90 feet in the air off the side of Mactaquac Dam, New Brunswick. They worked on an engineered platform to drill for rock anchors.

Mactaquac Dam, New Brunswick.

Case study – In 1998, Innovative Drilling entered the Minas Basin Paper Plant in Nova Scotia. While a paper machine ran above them, the Innovative Drilling staff drove sheet piling. There was only eight feet of headroom above the working staff.

“We simply couldn’t find another contractor to tackle the job. The boys came in…they did their work safely, accurately and on time…and they never broke the paper [production flow] once.”
- Project Engineer John Carson, P. Eng., Minas Basin Pulp & Power.

A 25 foot sheet pile cell was driven underneath an operating paper machine. Limited headroom meant that sheet pile sections had to be added two feet at a time. Minas Basin Paper Plant, Nova Scotia.

Minas Basin Paper Plant, Nova Scotia.

The abutments of the McKay Bridge rest on manmade islands in the Halifax Harbour. In order to work on an abutment, Innovative Drilling put their most durable drill on a boat.

Once the drill reached the McKay Bridge abutment, it was chained to the abutment’s side. Then holes were drilled in the abutment for rock bolts. The rock bolts were tensioned together.

The company’s drill rig needed to reach the top of South Mountain, Nova Scotia to do work for Paradise Hydro Electric. The drill rig couldn’t pull itself up the 30-degree steep stretch, so it was winched up.

Once the drill rig was in position on South Mountain, Nova Scotia, it drilled the holes used to install rock bolts in Penstock bases.

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