Company Overview

BMT Fleet Technology Limited, a member of the BMT group of companies, performs applied research, development and engineering for the transportation, environment, resource/energy, fabrication and manufacturing sectors, including government and the military.

The companys orgins arose from the need to develop advanced engineering solutions for the needs of projects in Canadas harsh operating environments, over thirty years ago. While the companys international reputation is still founded in part on these capabilities, it now offers a much wider range of services to clients across a broad spectrum of industry sectors.

All three of the companys engineering divisions are represented not only by the head office in Ottawa, Ontario, and by the satellite offices in Edmonton, Alberta; and Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia. The bulk of the work in Edmonton is with the pipeline industry, with which the Materials Technology Centre (MTC) has established a particularly solid reputation. Much of MTCs research and development work is in the form of joint industry projects, which involve many of the leading North American energy and transportation companies. MTCs facilities include both materials testing and welding laboratories; which, together with extensive field testing programs are used to ensure that analyses and recommendations are firmly grounded in reality.

The ground-truthing of analysis and design is also a key pillar of work undertaken by the Cold Regions Technology Centre (CRTC) and Marine and Offshore (M&O) division. As an example, CRTC develops turn-key solutions for ice control and management for power stations, navigable waterways, flood control, and other purposes. The same skills are used to undertake risk analyses and to assist in economic evaluations. CRTC collects ice and other environmental data, often using technologies developed or adapted in-house in addition to other state-of-the-art hardware and software.

The Marine and Offshore (M&O) division includes the Hatfield Division in Vancouver. Hatfields large portfolio of tugs, barges, patrol vessels and supply ships includes vessels in service from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. The M&O division has unique domain expertise in aspects of design and operation including evacuation analysis, ballast water treatment and icebreaker technology, and has recently been undertaking much more work in the areas of risk analysis and general marine environmental protection.

All three divisions are provided with technical support by the Software and Systems group, which provides instrumentation and software development support to projects in many of the areas outlined above. FlawCheck is a new commercial software product for structural integrity assessment, initially developed to meet the needs of the pipeline industry but with applicability to many heavy steel structures. ShipmoPC has established itself as a leading tool for ship motions prediction. The companys instrumentation work ranges from short-term measurements for dedicated ship trials to semi-permanent monitoring installations for civil and marine structures, in locations from Kazakhstan to the Ottawa River.

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Additional Details

Legal Name: BMT Fleet Technology Limited

Number of Employees: 55

Total Sales ($CDN): $100,000 - $200,000

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Services

• Cold Regions Engineering

  Cold regions technology group provides research and analysis in areas including ice characterization and profiling, ice transitting studies, safety/ice/debris booms design and fabrication, ice loads on dams and friction studies.

• Consulting Engineer - Environment-other

  Investigation of material failures, mechanical testing of components and materials, welding research, procedures develop- ment. Fatigue analysis and fracture investigations. Material fitness for purpose.

• Consulting Engineer - Municipal-roads And Streets

  Studies and experimental programs in the development and application of technology to combat the effects of ice, freezing, snow, etc. For example, ice loads on dams, bridges, ice management booms, friction of tires on ice and snow.

• Consulting Engineers

  BMT Fleet Technology Limited, a member of the BMT group of companies, performs applied research, development and engineering for the transportation, environment, resource/energy, fabrication and manufacturing sectors, including government and the military.

• Engineering Critical Assessment
• Marine & Offshore Engineering

  The marine and offshore technology group provides services including concept development, design, risk and safety studies, construction supervision and expert witness services.

• Materials & Welding Engineering Technology

  Materials technology group provides through-life engineering services in research, design, integrity assurance and forensic investigations.

• Runway Deicing
• Ship Design
• Ship Evacuation Analysis

  Using advanced simulation software, the company performs ship evacuation analysis for passenger and naval vessels, incorporating human behaviour data collected in it's on-site facility.

• Structural Fatigue Analysis

Products

• Composite Materials
• Deicing Applications
• Fracture Analysis
• R&d (icing)
• R&d (materials)
• Seakeeping Predictions Software

  ShipmoPC is a software tool used to predict and analyze ship motions and loads.

• Shaftkit

  Software program for assessing the strength and dynamic response of shaftlines and drive shafts.

• Sheba

  Ship Evacuation Behaviour Assessment (SHEBA) facility for measuring human behaviour and performance along a corridor and stair; with door and hatch configurations, at angles of heel or with dynamic motion, including smoke and low level lighting conditions.

• Ship & Marine Technology
• Shipmo-pc

  Software program for predicting the behaviour (motions, etc.) of a ship in heavy seas.

• Structural Integrity Software

  FlawCheck is a comprehensive integrity assessment software package for crack like flaws in metal structures, using industry accepted analytic techniques with easily interpreted final results and a documented analysis procedure.

• Testing Systems, Sensors

  Systems for testing strength, fatigue life, etc., of materials and components. Ice stress sensors.

• Welding Technology

NAICS Categories

• 541330 Engineering Services
• 541710 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering and Life Sciences

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