Public money leaves
a public record.
A municipal lift is technically the same as an industrial one — and politically nothing like it. The work happens beside a road that has to reopen Monday, inside a plant that cannot stop treating water, on a schedule set by a council vote and a construction season. Then the file becomes a public record. We engineer public-infrastructure lifts sealed by a licensed Canadian PE, with the documentation trail a procurement review, an auditor general, or an access-to-information request will eventually ask for.
24 h
Emergency lift plans — Canadian municipalities
Sealed
Every deliverable, by a licensed Canadian PE
QC · ON
Where public operations are, we go
Canada
Software hosted here — Loi 25 + PIPEDA posture
Six exposures unique to spending public money.
In the private sector a bad lift costs production. In the public sector it costs production, a council meeting, and a line in next year's audit. The six below are the ones that separate public work from everything else on this site.
Continuity of an essential service
A water treatment plant, a pumping station, a transit line — these do not get to stop. Most public lifts are executed around a live service, with the contingency plan mattering more than the primary sequence.
The construction season is the real deadline
In Quebec and Ontario the working window is finite and everyone is competing for the same cranes inside it. A lift that slips past freeze-up does not slip by two weeks — it slips by a season, and re-enters next year's capital budget.
Procurement scrutiny
The engineering behind a public contract is reviewable. A sealed plan with cited standards and a traceable methodology is not bureaucratic overhead here — it is the artifact that survives the review.
Public exposure at the work zone
Municipal lifts happen beside pedestrians, cyclists, traffic and transit riders, not behind an industrial fence. The exclusion zone is the hardest constraint on the plan, and it is non-negotiable.
Records that outlive the mandate
As-builts and engineering records for public assets have to be findable decades later, by people who were not there. Documents scattered across consultant inboxes become the successor's problem — and eventually an access-to-information gap.
Data residency and privacy law
Public-body data carries Loi 25 in Quebec and PIPEDA federally, plus internal residency policy. Anything we host stays in Canada, on infrastructure the body can name in its own register.
Six operation archetypes across public infrastructure.
Public infrastructure clusters into recurring engineering patterns — water, mobility, buildings, and the emergency work no one plans for. The methodology adapts to the service that must stay live ; the rigor doesn't.
Treatment plant and pumping station equipment
Clarifier and filter media, blowers, pumps, generator sets, digester and tank components. Confined-site lifts over live process basins, sequenced around a plant that never stops treating.
Transit, bridges and overpasses
Girder and deck section placements, station equipment, escalator and elevator components, tunnel-boring support. Night and weekend windows with a hard reopening commitment at the end.
Civic buildings, arenas and facilities
Rooftop mechanical units, ice-plant equipment, structural steel and precast for arenas, libraries and community centres. Constrained urban sites with pedestrian exposure on every side.
Substations, district energy and waste
Transformer and switchgear placements, boiler and chiller change-outs, waste-handling equipment. Energized-adjacent work with a utility's own clearance procedure governing the window.
Asset renewal and heavy component change-outs
The backlog work : a pump that has outlived its class, a rooftop unit at end of life, a bridge bearing replacement. Lift engineering that starts from the capital plan rather than from an outage.
Unplanned lift, sealed in 24 hours
A main break, a storm-damaged structure, an inspection finding that closes a facility to the public. A senior engineer is on the file within 60 minutes and a sealed plan is in hand within 24 hours.
The standards we work to.
The lift is our scope, so the standards we cite are crane, rigging and structural standards — executed inside the public body's own project and safety management system. The asset's design basis and the service obligation belong to the body, not to us.
Mobile and locomotive cranes
The mobile-crane safety baseline — load charts, capacity, setup, operation. Cited on every public-infrastructure lift plan as the methodology reference.
Safety code on mobile cranes
The Canadian mobile-crane code, applied with the provincial OHS regulation in force — CNESST in Quebec, MOL in Ontario.
Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code
Referenced as the design context when a lift interacts with a bridge structure — loading a deck, working from a structure, or placing a component the code governs.
Code for tower cranes
Applied where a tower crane serves a civic building or transit-station construction — erection, climbing and dismantling sequences.
Quebec privacy law — for the software line
Referenced as the posture for any system we host that touches personal information held by a Quebec public body. Data stays in Canada by deployment, not by promise.
Federal privacy — for the software line
The federal counterpart, referenced where a public body's data crosses provincial or federal lines. The body's own accreditation governs its systems ; we build to fit inside it.
Four capability lines. One public engagement.
All four pillars apply. Public infrastructure is heavy civil engineering under public scrutiny — so the lift capability leads, and the software line carries the records and residency requirement.
Sealed plans + emergency response
Sealed lift plans for water, transit, bridge and civic work, engineered by a licensed Canadian PE. Built for a work zone with public exposure and a hard reopening commitment. Emergency plans sealed within 24 hours, seven days a week.
Distribution + training + implementation
CRANEbee® multi-crane simulation and 3D clash detection for constrained urban sites — rehearsing a night-window sequence before the road closes, with ground-bearing analysis over buried services and structures. Exclusive Canadian distribution.
Distribution + advisory + training
Murlink® Dyneema® rigging where steel is the wrong tool : 85% lighter for crews working over live process basins, non-conductive near energized substation equipment, non-marking on finished architectural surfaces. Authorized Quebec distribution.
Deterministic engineering platform
The Maxor Global software suite, hosted in Canada. Maxor Connect for multi-site capital project operations across an asset portfolio ; Maxor Audit and Maxor Ground where an AI-assisted workflow touches records a citizen can request. Loi 25 and PIPEDA posture by deployment.
Beyond the four pillars — software built for your operation.
Public bodies run on records that have to be findable long after the people who made them have moved on. When the off-the-shelf tool does not fit the retention obligation or the residency policy, we build the one that does — in Canada.
Heisen — our deterministic intelligence layer — is optional on any build: embed it or not, your call. Either way it plugs into a fresh custom app or your existing third-party software via API.
Capital asset and renewal register
Heavy assets across the portfolio with age, condition and access constraint, so a change-out enters the capital plan before it becomes an emergency call at 2 a.m.
Work-zone and closure planner
Lift windows against road, transit and service closures in one view — so the crane, the detour and the reopening commitment are planned as one object rather than three.
Records trail for procurement review
Sealed deliverables, cited standards and execution evidence in one exportable trail. Answers a procurement review or an access-to-information request without an archaeology project.
Scope your public infrastructure lift.
Tell us the asset, the service that has to stay live, and the window. We will scope the engineering — and the record it leaves behind.