BBA Inc services

When it comes to a portfolio of physical assets, a lack of long-term planning represents a major financial risk that may affect a company’s operations, resulting in unexpected—and substantial—investments that jeopardize profitability. Good corporate governance requires sound management throughout the life cycle of material assets and infrastructures in order to reduce risks and ensure that operating targets are achieved year after year. Whatever a facility’s stage in the life cycle, BBA is committed to finding innovative solutions for the management of physical assets. Our multidisciplinary teams help clients make the right decisions, optimize their operational performance and minimize the overall cost of assets while spreading out investments required for the long-term continuity of operations.

Conventional site surveys can entail a range of challenges: limited access, low accuracy depending on the instruments used, hard-to-reach areas, and oversight of certain measurements. As a result, a detailed survey can be costly and time consuming, especially if current drawings are not available. When used in addition to or instead of conventional survey methods, 3D laser scanning generates highly accurate surveys in a fraction of the time, with far fewer risks to the surveyor. What’s more, scanner data can be used to model any planned changes to complex industrial installations. At BBA, we apply our expertise in 3D laser scanning to help clients achieve substantial savings in time and money with projects of any type and size.

Employees who work with electrical installations may be exposed to electric arc flash. BBA has become an expert in addressing safety requirements for electrical installations and workers. When conducting arc flash hazard analyses, we draw on our 35-plus years of short-circuit, protection application and coordination studies as well as our practical know-how and expertise in electrical incidents. As a result, our experts are able to suggest solutions to reduce risks by enhancing protection devices and improving work methods through employee awareness and training.

Optimization and advanced control helps manufacturers when their plant’s performance fails to meet targets. BBA offers design, implementation, training and on-site support services as well as remote monitoring. Renowned in the field of process control, our ultra-specialized experts work to improve plant safety and performance by providing sophisticated analysis and optimal performance strategies, among other services. Our proven solutions allow clients to better manage change and obtain swift and tangible results. Major industrial groups regularly use the services of our optimization and advanced control team. Our experts work closely in a multidisciplinary setting with other BBA expertise units in Industrial IT, Telecommunications and Industrial Networks, Automation, and Energy Management Systems to offer our clients an exceptional range of services and unrivalled knowledge.

Industrial processes require control of atmospheric emissions using equipment and solutions designed for specific sites based on a comprehensive approach to air emissions management. Known for its expertise in air pollution control, BBA delivers solutions that take into account increasingly strict environmental requirements as well as the age of the client’s installations. Thanks to its command of atmospheric dispersion models and on-site measurement methods, our team is able to run a complete diagnostics of current emissions and suggest optimal solutions. In addition to helping our clients meet environmental standards, this integrated expertise also minimizes investment and operating costs—an aspect all too often neglected with this type of project. BBA supports businesses across all project phases, from diagnostics and management of environmenta monitoring to strategic planning and implementation of solutions for air pollution control.

Information is vital in this day and age. Not only must it be readily available, but also impeccably reliable. IT business continuity is based on innovation, efficiency, manageability and modularity of its resources. While customers demand tighter control over operating conditions, they must also be able to rely on multidisciplinary specialists for innovative data centre design and performance. BBA’s Data Centre team holds leading-edge expertise and aims to achieve a perfect balance of reliability, cost and efficiency through a range of electromechanical and control systems as well as manage, enhance and share that information to maximize the client’s return on assets.

Automation is the autonomous operation of equipment or processes that previously required human intervention. Throughout the years, our automation specialists have become respected experts in this field. Adapting to the evolving technical challenges of our clients` projects, and proposing original solutions that draw on the latest state of the art technologies available are what our experts, engineers and technicians have been doing since the early 80s. Our scope of work in automation includes designing process controls, implementing control strategies, optimizing control loop, conducting performance analyses, as well as implementing preventive and predictive maintenance. Our automation expertise provides added value to your projects, whether they involve control architecture, networking (Ethernet, control systems and electrical equipment), instrumentation, programming (PLC, HMI, DCS, SCADA), or commissioning.

Electricity plays a major role in our everyday lives. Who can do without it? The same goes for industry. Without electricity, how can ore be extracted from a mine, bauxite be transformed into aluminium, or molecules be recombined to refine crude oil into consumable products? And especially, how can these be carried out while maximizing the operational continuity, reliability of equipment safety of personnel, all while optimizing investment and operation costs? BBA`s electrical engineering group has been responding to these questions for over 25 years. The group is composed of over 100 professionals, making it one of the largest high value-added electrical engineering service providers in Canada.

The professionals that make up BBA`s environmental management group are always looking for and developing efficient, innovative and successful solutions. Our pool of experienced professionals in environmental projects includes chemical, civil, mechanical and metallurgical engineers. In our 30 years of existence, we have developed a considerable expertise in environmental management through numerous industrial and mining projects. Our expertise? In addition to applying the latest analysis, design and modelling tools, we allocate considerable resources to the development of our professionals through training and coaching by our more experienced staff. We can thus assist you in all your activities by providing you with the best resources to ensure the success of your projects.

BBA`s mining engineering team is composed of experienced and dynamic professionals whose expertise is recognized both in Canada and abroad. The quality of the projects we are entrusted with is mainly attributed to our technical skills, our ability and resolve to always meet schedules, the innovative solutions we bring to our projects, and excellent communications with our clients. Our clients benefit from the expertise of our specialists who all have extensive experience in mining engineering and production. We can thus provide you with leading-edge expertise in all the technical, operational and financial aspects of mining projects. We can assist you in all phases of your projects, from the initial feasibility and financial analyses to the commissioning and operation stages.