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Apr 26, 2012
Vancouver Wharves Ltd - Terminal Development
Authors: Stanley R. Cowdell, Steven Yee, and Doug WallisAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Ports '01: America's Ports: Gateway to the Global Economy
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Vancouver Wharves Ltd. (VWL) is a five berth bulk and break bulk terminal located at the entrance to Vancouver Harbour in Burrard Inlet on Canada's West Coast. From 1997 to 1999 Westmar Consultants Inc. assisted VWL with a major redevelopment of the Terminal to provide new rail and unloading facilities and to consolidate the sulphur storage to a single stockpile. The space made available by the sulphur stockpile consolidation allowed for the addition of a new agri-products system. The VWL site was constructed in the 1960's by filling the intertidal foreshore with coarse dredged material. The fill thickness varied up to 13 metres at the offshore slope. The site is in an area of high seismicity and as a result the fill and underlying sediments are subject to liquefaction.
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Ports '01: America's Ports: Gateway to the Global Economy
Pages: 1 - 10
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© 2001 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Berths
- Chemical compounds
- Chemical elements
- Chemicals
- Chemistry
- Coastal engineering
- Coasts, oceans, ports, and waterways engineering
- Dredged materials
- Earth materials
- Engineering fundamentals
- Environmental engineering
- Fills
- Freight transportation
- Geomaterials
- Geotechnical engineering
- Hydraulic engineering
- Hydraulic structures
- Infrastructure
- Littoral zones
- Ports and harbors
- River engineering
- Sediment
- Sulfur
- Systems engineering
- Systems management
- Transportation engineering
- Water and water resources
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Stanley R. Cowdell
P.Eng.
President, Westmar Consultants Inc., 400 - 233 West 1st Street, North Vancouver, BC Canada V7M 1B3
Steven Yee
P.Eng.
Project engineer, Westmar Consultants Inc., 400 - 233 West 1st Street, North Vancouver, BC Canada V7M 1B3
Doug Wallis
P.Eng.
Geotechnical Engineer, Cook, Pickering & Doyle Ltd., 141 East 7th Avenue, Vancouver, BC Canada V5T 1M5
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