DWB’s unique blend of engineering, environmental and forestry expertise allows us to provide most, ff not all, services required to facilitate our client’s projects through the planning and development, design, construction and operational stages in many sectors.
DWB is a premiere environmental services provider servicing a diverse range of clients throughout British Columbia and across Western Canada. Our extensive staff of environmental professionals and technicians, including Professional Biologists, Agrologists, Engineers, Foresters, Environmental Professionals, and registered technologists includes subject matter experts in fisheries and aquatics, avian and wildlife ecology, amphibians and reptiles, invasive plant and vegetation, soil, erosion and sediment control, construction environmental monitoring, contaminated sites, reclamation, remediation, and permitting.
DWB provides a wide variety of environmental services, either as stand- alone services, or as part of larger engineering or forestry programs. DWB has diverse corporate and staff experience in environmental regulatory processes, impact assessments, classification, delineation and inventory, reclamation and rehabilitation, mitigation and off-set planning, environmental construction monitoring, auditing and inspecting, and research design and implementation projects. DWB provides support to a wide variety of client sectors including linear developments such as roadways (bridges, culverts and road construction), pipelines and transmission lines, exploration and production mining, forestry, oil and gas leases, and private building developments. DWB has successfully completed a wide array of projects for clients in all sectors, from small, simple assessments to multi- year, multi-million-dollar infrastructure mega-projects.
Building on our forestry roots and extensive experience across the province, we have expanded our professional scope to provide a multi-disciplinary range of services for our clients not only in the forest industry, but in sectors including transportation, utilities, mining and oil and gas. Our professionals have extensive knowledge and expertise in many districts, including ecological, legislative and technical aspects of forestry unique to many areas of the province. DWB’s Forest Professionals remain current through ongoing professional development and training to maintain competency with British Columbia’s evolving forestry research, policies and best management practices.
The DWB forestry department specializes in pre-harvest timber development, comprehensive planning services, timber valuation and a wide variety of silviculture services. Combined with additional services from the engineering, environmental, and geomatics departments, DWB is able to provide complete multi-phase timber development services for our clients. Our skilled staff can satisfy a wide range of clients’ requirements and create effective solutions for custom silviculture and reforestation projects. Our inter-disciplinary staff are able to provide innovative solutions to non-traditional forestry projects including rehabilitation, revegetation, and harvest planning and permitting across many other industries.
The DWB engineering department specializes in transportation and civil projects, including road and highway design, stream crossing design (bridges and culverts), hydrotechnical studies and river engineering. Related services include topographic ground and UAV (drone) surveys, construction engineering and supervision, hydrographic/bathymetry surveys, traffic management planning, quality plan development, bridge inspections and structural load rating analysis. To plan for an unknown future, climate change integration using accepted provincial guidelines is key to our hydrotechnical assessments and related crossing designs.
DWB has a skilled team of professionals experienced in reclamation, rehabilitation and restoration planning and implementation. Our technical experts assist clients in the oil and gas, mining, transportation, power, and aggregate sectors successfully reclaim and restore disturbed lands and aquatic environments to previous capabilities or pre- disturbance ecosystems. DWB works with clients to minimize their reclamation obligations over the life of operations by utilizing a unique endpoints approach to vegetation monitoring. This approach identifies vegetation cover that is self-sustaining, following the intended successional trajectory and is pursuant to the end land use objective, which can then be released from further works.
DWB is a leading provider of Erosion and Sediment Control (ESC) services, with one of the largest teams of erosion control specialists in Canada. DWB has many Certified Professionals in Erosion and Sediment Control (CPESC), Certified Inspectors of Sediment and Erosion Control (CISEC), Certified Leads in Erosion and Sediment Control in BC (BC-CESCL), and ESC support from hydrotechnical Engineers, Biologists, Agrologists and Foresters
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