article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources wardrop engineering inc. news newspapers books scholar jstor free images september 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message wardrop a tetra tech company former type public industry engineering consulting fate acquired by tetra tech founded 1955 defunct january 2009 2009 01 headquarters toronto on ; pickering on ; markham on ; mississauga on ; cambridge on ; sudbury on ; thunder bay on ; winnipeg mb ; saskatoon sk ; regina sk ; calgary ab ; vancouver bc key people shayne smith ceo products engineering consulting for energy power & nuclear mining infrastructure oil & gas industrial number of employees 10 000 divisions energy ; mining ; infrastructure ; oil & gas industrial ; product development ; international website www.wardrop.com contents 1 company profile 2 divisions 3 major projects 4 references 5 external links company profile edit les wardrop started wardrop engineering inc. in 1955 in winnipeg manitoba canada . initial projects consisting primarily of public works engineering and residential subdivision servicing . building upon early successes wardrop opened a second office in port arthur now thunder bay ontario canada in 1956 . the 1960s saw wardrop embark upon expansion diversification and quality . by this time wardrop expanded its engineering disciplines to include civil mechanical structural and electrical with established offices in winnipeg thunder bay and regina . it was in the winnipeg office where the firm first started working in the canadian nuclear industry . the 1970s were a time of growth and maturity . wardrop launched projects in west africa and the international division was created . at the same time a branch office was established in edmonton and assignments across canada grew to include pulp and paper and solar energy . computerization and advanced technology were the thrust of the 1980s . wardrop expanded to toronto and opened an office to pursue nuclear waste management fusion energy environmental challenges and the aerospace industry . along the way the firm changed its name to wardrop engineering inc. to meet the changing needs of the marketplace wardrop applied systems inc. was formed to accommodate the development of new prototype designs for industrial applications . the 1990s was a decade of sustainable development space stations re engineering and an explosion of computer software design tools for real time industrial process control and information management . the quality and delivery of wardrop s products were enhanced through advanced in house management systems once thought impossible . a saskatoon office and three new wardrop companies were launched . wardrop was named one of canada s top 100 employers as published in maclean s magazine for the years 2003 1 2004 2 2006 3 2007 4 and 2008 and also one of canada s top 20 best employers for new canadians for the year of 2008 . 5 in january 2009 tetra tech acquired wardrop expanding the tetra tech team to more than 10 000 staff . divisions edit wardrop had several divisions energy infrastructure mining oil & gas industrial international major projects edit provencher bridge references edit katherine macklem october 20 2003 . top 100 employers . macleans . article at www.naturespath.com pdf . the top 100 companies . calgary herald . october 14 2006 . wardrop top 100 employers . yorkregion.com . november 7 2007 . article at www.canadastop100.com pdf . external links edit official website this article about a canadian corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wardrop engineering inc. & oldid 680788194 categories companies based in winnipegengineering consulting firmscompanies established in 1955companies disestablished in 2009canadian company stubshidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from september 2015all articles with topics of unclear notabilityall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 september 2015 at 04 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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