Gravel is a necessary product in our society.
In fact 10-15 tonnes of gravel are needed every year for every BC resident. That translates into 30 million tonnes required annually in Greater Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, enough to fill BC place 10 times over. That’s a lot of gravel. And in order to make it affordable, it needs to be mined locally, where it’s required, to meet the demand. The Howe Sound project proposes to do just that, and by transporting it via barge BURNCO will also eliminate the need for 416 gravel trucks on the road everyday.
The majority of the need for gravel is to support public infrastructure.
Public infrastructure, it’s a term that encompasses much of what we rely on in our everyday lives. It is highways and sidewalks, schools and playgrounds, hospitals and libraries.
BURNCO is currently providing gravel for a number of infrastructure projects in construction right now:
- Canada Post at YVR on Fergusson Road
- Improvements to Acadia Road School in Vancouver
- Improvements to Queen Mary School in North Vancouver
- Burnaby Trail Canada Way and Gilmore in Burnaby.
- Surrey Combo Project, Concrete piles for three overpasses.
- Triumph Ariel Radiation Lab at UBC
- Surrey Memorial Hospital expansion at King George and 96th Avenue
- Medical Office Building at 133rd and 96th Ave in Surrey
- Runway work at YVR
- 152nd Street Overpass
- New RCMP building, BURNCO is doing all the landscape concrete
BURNCO is committed to helping BC continue to improve. All of the product mined from this proposed site will stay local, benefitting all of the Lower Mainland.