Consbec in Nova Scotia
What we do here
In Nova Scotia we blast rock for highways and building sites, and anchor and shore excavation walls in Halifax and Dartmouth. Since 2025 we have been on the twinning of Highway 103 at Chester, blasting beside a highway that stays open.
Our bulk emulsion comes from our own plant near Moncton. Mini pumpers bring it onto construction sites where most contractors load cartridges by hand, which gives a known charge in every hole and steadier vibration next to roads and buildings. Our work in the province goes back to 2000, when we drilled and blasted ditch rock for the natural gas mainline.
- 3projects shown below
- 2000first pipeline job in the province
Projects
Our work in Nova Scotia
- 130,000+ m³Rock blasted to September 2026Active
Highways
Highway 103 Twinning
Chester, Nova Scotia
Mass rock excavation for the twinning of Highway 103 at Chester — 216 blasts since September 2025, loaded with bulk emulsion, beside an open highway and under a 12.5 mm/s limit at the nearest structure.
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Ground support & shoring
Dartmouth Shopping Centre — Rock Anchors
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Grouted rock anchors holding the rock walls of a commercial redevelopment excavation, installed row by row to the engineer's sequence, plus hollow-bar anchors pumped full of grout where the ground was too broken to hold a hole.
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Ground support & shoring
Joseph Howe Drive — Excavation Support
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Shoring and ground support for an apartment building excavation in the city — grouted soil anchors where the walls are soil, and bolts, screen and shotcrete where they are rock.
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Stock photos: Dartmouth Shopping Centre — Rock Anchors — photo by Störfix, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE; Joseph Howe Drive — Excavation Support — photo by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pipeline
2 pipeline jobs in Nova Scotia
- Nova Scotia2000
- Halifax, NS & Saint John, NB2001
Across Canada
Where else we work
Ontario
Head office, the main shop and our explosives site, with crews on mines and highways across the North.
Manitoba
An emulsion plant north of Winnipeg, and underground crews at Snow Lake.
New Brunswick
Our Atlantic emulsion plant near Moncton, and spillway blasting beside tailings dams in the north.
British Columbia
Pipeline right-of-way across the north, with a site in development at Terrace.