Engineering Services

Kova Engineering (Saskatchewan) Ltd. provides a wide range of engineering and technical services in the disciplines of metallurgical, structural, and mechanical engineering. We have consulted for a wide range of industries including mining, steel foundries, forestry, oil and gas, manufacturing, fabrication, construction, and agriculture.

Engineering services include:

• Design and certification of new equipment and re-certification of exiting equipment including:
o Mobile cranes, drag lines, pipelayers, and gin poles
o Overhead, jib, gantry, tower, portal, and monorail cranes
o Fall arrest and lifeline anchor systems
o Lifting beams, spreader bars, and other under-the-hook lifting devices
o Personnel baskets for cranes and forklifts
o Self-propelled personnel lifts and swing stages
o Catwalks, mezzanine floors, and access ways
o Scaffolding
o Industrial mining equipment
o Construction equipment
o Industrial and commercial steel structures
o Drilling rigs, service rigs, flush-by rigs, and other oilfield equipment
o Roll over protection structures (ROPS)
o Falling object protection structures (FOPS)
o Structural steel for low-rise buildings and additions
o Thickener tanks, conical and scalloped bottom elevated thickener tanks, pump boxes, and storage tanks

• Engineered lifts and rigging studies
o Single and multiple crane lifting procedures complete with engineered drawings

• Material consultations and weld procedure specifications
o Material verification
o Electrode selection
o Specialty weld designs

• Finite element analysis
o Kova Engineering (Saskatchewan) Ltd. uses finite element analysis for optimization of structural design

• Failure analysis
o Accident investigations and failure analyses
o Inspection
o Metallurgical reports
o Repair recommendations
o Final certification

• 3D solid modeling and 2D CAD drafting
o Engineered drawings for new fabrications
o As-built drawings for existing equipment and structures
o Kova Engineering (Saskatchewan) Ltd. uses the latest technology and software available to provide our clients with superior structural and mechanical engineering solutions.

• Certification of mounting
o Design and certification of newly-mounted and re-mounted mobile cranes, digger derricks, and aerial devices