SNC-Lavalin Group Inc is a Canadian company based in Montreal that provides engineering, procurement, and construction services to various industries, including mining and metallurgy, oil and gas, environment and water, infrastructure, and clean energy.
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SNC-Lavalin is the largest construction company, by revenue, in Canada, as of 2018.
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SNC-Lavalin specialized in hydraulics, managing hydropower projects and flood control, and soon branched out into the industrial sector, particularly in pulp and paper, and mining and metallurgy.
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In 2011, SNC-Lavalin sold part of its share of Highway 407, at a significant profit.
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SNC-Lavalin established a subsidiary company named Candu Energy to market the design and supply of CANDU reactors.
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In 2017, SNC-Lavalin acquired its UK rival WS Atkins—a British design, engineering and project management consulting firm, with $1.
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In late 2018, SNC-Lavalin agreed to form a joint venture with the Swedish-Swiss industrial giant ABB for the delivery of turnkey electrical substation projects.
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In 2015, the Eglinton Crosstown and Blue22 projects in Toronto were awarded to SNC-Lavalin, who was one of only two bidders for the Crosstown line.
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SNC-Lavalin is one of three main partners of the Rideau Transit Group, along with ACS Group and EllisDon Confederation Line, on a 12.
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In 1995, SNC-Lavalin won a large infrastructure contract to renovate and modernize hydro electric power stations with the Indian government.
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SNC-Lavalin won a large infrastructure contract to renovate and modernize hydroelectric power stations with the Indian government in 1995 which resulted in an alleged net loss to the Indian exchequer of 3745.
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In 2015, SNC-Lavalin was charged with bribing Libyan officials in exchange for construction contracts between 2001 and 2011.
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SNC-Lavalin were awarded the contract even though they were outbid by $60 million.
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SNC-Lavalin sued Duhaime for millions of dollars in damages, claiming that he stained its goodwill by means of the McGill University Health Centre superhospital scandal.
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SNC-Lavalin had been contracted to engineer, procure, and build the facility, and the documents asserted that it "has neither the will or the ability to fix some of these fundamental flaws".
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SNC-Lavalin was replaced by Ian A Bourne, who was the chairman of Ballard Power Systems and a member of the CPP Investment Board.
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SNC-Lavalin continued to face criminal charges in 2019 in regards to alleged bribes contracts between 2001 and 2011.
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SNC-Lavalin failed to receive a remediation agreement that would have provided a reprieve from criminal charges and now faces a potential conviction.
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