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In 1911, Arthur Surveyer established a consulting engineering office, Arthur Surveyer & Cie., in Montréal after completing studies in Belgium and at the Polytechnique Montréal and working for several years with public works. Against the backdrop of the transformative advances in electrification.
ARTHUR SURVEYER, MONTREAL ENGINEER. Share full article. April 19, 1961. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from April 19, 1961, Page 39 Buy Reprints.
SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.'s origins date back to 1911, when Dr. Arthur Surveyer opened an engineering office in Montreal. Surveyer specialized in civil engineering and later diversified into industrial plant design.
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When Duhaime took over the company in 2009, SNC-Lavalin was a darling of the Canadian financial world. His predecessor, Jacques Lamarre, seemed to make it rain money. The company's profits grew tenfold under Lamarre's watch; revenues surpassed $7 billion. It had offices in 35 countries and a workforce of 21,000 employees. But if anyone at SNC was h...
The S in SNC is for Arthur Surveyer, a Canadian government engineer who struck out on his own in 1911, opening a small office in Montreal's financial district in Old Montreal. He began with a drafting table, an Underwood typewriter, a bookshelf and not much else. But Surveyer grew the business by working on waterways and power dams. He took on new ...
Ben Aissa was known within the company as one of its "firemen," a moniker earned for his ability to get it out of sticky situations in North Africa. He was particularly well-connected in Libya, and with Bébawi, secured major contracts for pipeline work from the regime of former dictator Moammar Gadhafi. They also won big contracts in Algeria, and s...
In May 2009, Duhaime was given the daunting task of replacing Lamarre. On his final earnings call that spring, the outgoing CEO was asked by analysts whether he was worried about the corporation's prospects. Credit, after all, had dried up in the wake of the financial crisis and commodities were tanking. Don't worry, Lamarre told them, big governme...
Yanai Elbaz, one of the MUHC executives heavily involved in the superhospital selection process, pleaded guilty in November 2018 to breach of trust and conspiracy charges. In entering his plea, he agreed to a statement of facts that offers a different perspective of how SNC came to win the superhospital contract. During the submission process, Elba...
In the agreed-upon statement of facts submitted to Quebec court Judge Dominique Joly when Duhaime appeared in court Friday, the former SNC-Lavalin CEO acknowledged that early in his tenure, in 2009, he'd been told that an employee was in contact with Elbaz. That was right around the time SNC-Lavalin was trying to secure the superhospital contract. ...
Certainly, the legal scrutiny that SNC-Lavalin has been under for the past seven years has been bad for business. Though the company officials charged in the Bangladeshi bribery case were eventually acquitted, the World Bank slapped SNC in 2013 with a 10-year ban on bidding for its projects. Federal prosecutors in Canada, meanwhile, signaled they i...
Feb 4, 2014 · 1911: Arthur Surveyor opens his first engineering consulting office on Saint-François-Xavier Street in Montreal.
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Jun 12, 2019 · In 1911, 32-year-old Arthur Surveyer opened a consulting company in Montreal, after having worked for seven years at the federal Department of Public Works. His company’s first major contract was to plan and supervise the construction of a hydroelectric power station near Grand-Mère, Quebec.
In its early days, the precursor to SNC-Lavalin was formed by Arthur Surveyer in 1911, following a distinguished career in the Canadian Department of Public Works. By the early 1920s, it had already become one of Montreal’s leading engineering service providers for power projects.
