History and Profile

PETRIFOND was established in 1960 to construct a foundation for a modern grain elevator based on a daring alternate using state of the art European equipment.

PETRIFOND has undertaken many unusual and challenging projects in the field of deep foundations which include:

• Difficult and large piling projects
• Deep and large diameter rock socketed caissons
• Marine projects including wharfs, jetty’s, and mooring structures
• Special projects such as rail mounted caisson and piling projects
• Unusual and complicated underpinning projects
• Foundation work in the far North and in permafrost
• Slurry walls and diaphragm walls for urban foundations and shoring projects as well as cut-off walls

PETRIFOND has executed projects throughout Canada, the United States and the Carribean. It’s headquarters are in Montreal Canada. The equipment and tools are stored and maintained at its 5 acres yard facility which is equipped with shops, storage and offices.

PETRIFOND maintains a fleet of 40 major foundation rigs together with specialized tools and accessories, such as overburden and rock drills, proprietary piling leads, impact hammers, vibratory hammers, cluster drills, augers, clams, slurry wall equipment.

PETRIFOND is managed by a team of professional engineers, specialty supervisors and skilled field personnel with many years of hands on experience in the deep foundations field. PETRIFOND is certified CWB.

PETRIFOND has been involved in some notable project in North America such as:

• Potash Terminal Wharf, Saint John New Brunswick involving 28 foot tides and 220-ft. deep caissons
• Rail mounted installation of caissons for commuter train electrification St. Eustache, Quebec
• Twin Buttes: Largest slurry wall cut-off in North America to date with over 1,400,00 S.F
• Portland CSO Project including Shaft 140 ft diameter and over 200-ft. deep 
• Hydro Quebec Transmission Line: 14- ft diameter marine caissons; largest constructed in Quebec.
• Historic Cathedral: Underpinning of Cathedral 150 years old.
• 100-ft deep rock socketed caissons for an industrial plant in Kitimat, British Columbia
• 6,000 Rock socketed caissons for treatment plant in Calgary, Alberta
• USACE: 700,000 sq.ft of concrete slurry walls in boulders and rock debris, Bonneville, Washington.
• SEBJ: 600,000 sq.ft of concrete slurry walls in the remote James Bay region.

PETRIFOND offers solutions for infrastructures, buildings, dams, deep shafts, and marine structures:

• Pre- construction budgets and scheduling services
• Economical and innovative solutions
• Value engineering
• Complete turn-key foundation packages including designed