QEW Garden City Skyway Bridge

Project Overview

Location: St. Catharines, ON
Client: Morrison Hershfield
Services: Geomatics, Geomatics Engineering, Land Surveying, Geospatial & LiDAR, GIS
Sector: Transportation

Project Description

The QEW Garden City Skyway Bridge Twinning project involves construction of a new 2.2 km bridge across the Welland Canal alongside the existing Garden City Skyway. The project will expand this major transportation crossing while maintaining connectivity through one of Ontario’s busiest highway corridors.

As part of the Owner’s Engineer team, TULLOCH served as Project Surveyor and GIS Specialist. The assignment brought together engineering surveys, property information, LiDAR, and GIS tools to provide the design team with coordinated spatial information for the bridge and surrounding corridor.

Scope of Services

  • Establishment of geodetic project control
  • Pre-engineering surveys of hard surfaces and the canal area using ground surveys and mobile LiDAR
  • Right-of-way limit calculations and compilation
  • Civil 3D base plans and profiles incorporating ground, photogrammetric, and mobile LiDAR data
  • Title searches to confirm property ownership and land extents
  • Identification of property discrepancies and preparation of legal descriptions
  • Ownership polygons and mapping for the project GIS geodatabase
  • GIS web maps and dashboards for project visualization and status tracking