About Us
Established in 1973, CGTA has provided the highest quality engineering services to our clients in the following roles and responsibilities:
- Front End Engineering Design Studies (FEED)
- Detailed Engineering
- Owners Engineer
- Project Management
- Commissioning and Start-up
- Operations Analysis and Maintenance Inspections Support
- Asset Integrity Program Development
- Asset Inspection and Outage Quality Assurance services
- Failure Investigations and Root Cause Analysis Reports for Risk Management and Insurance Underwriter and Brokers
- Expert Witness Services
- Equipment Maintenance and Electrical Systems Training
CGTA provides design engineering services and operations and maintenance engineering on all equipment in utility plants including:
- Thermal Power Stations Power Boilers and Utility Steam Turbines
- Combined Cycle Plants Triple Pressure Fired HRSG’s and Large Frame Combustion Turbines
- Biomass and Multiple-fuel fired Boilers
- Cogeneration Facilities Frame and Aeroderivative Gas Turbines and HRSG’s
- Air and Hydrogen Cooled Generators and Transformers
- Renewables Solar and Wind Farm Electrical Systems
- Central Heating and Cooling Plants
- In-Cycle Water Treatment and Make-up Water Systems
- Steam and Hot Water Distribution Systems
- Industrial Process Systems, PLC’s and DCS’s
- High and Medium Voltage Electrical Networks
- Water treatment plants
- Air compressor plants
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide the highest quality consulting engineering services to our clients. Our goal is to establish lasting long-term relationships by exceeding our client’s expectations and earning their trust through exceptional performance by every employee in our company. We are determined to maintain the highest levels of professionalism, integrity, honesty and fairness in our relationships with our clients, employees and associates.
Our People
Our team is comprised of a dedicated core group of professional engineers and technologists. The majority of CGTA’s senior staff have worked at CGTA for over 30 years. This ongoing continuity by our senior personnel makes CGTA unique in the depth of experience and knowledge that is available to our clients.
Our team of problem solvers, facilitators, and negotiators have long-term vision; professionals that work together with our clients to find the best solutions. They are committed to offering the highest quality and comprehensive engineering services.
CGTA History
The Company was founded in 1973 by Charles G. Turner, P.Eng. This was a period in Canada and Ontario that had experienced a large increase in its need for coal, natural gas and bunker oil firing boilers. Various professional engineering specialists who had thermal generation experience over many years at Ontario Hydro joined the company. They brought experience in boilers, pulverized coal fuel firing, combustion controls, steam turbines/generators, boiler water treatment, electrical high voltage transmission and distribution systems. This enabled the CGTA core engineers to gain vast amounts of knowledge and experience in the utility industry.
During the late 1980’s, CGTA migrated their engineering knowledge to the mid-size combined cycle and cogeneration plants that were established in Ontario, New Brunswick and Alberta. Experience in the large frame combustion turbines and HRSG’s was earned across North America in the 1990’s and early 2000’s, with this experience applied to the large combined cycle power block expansion in Ontario during the mid to late 2000’s. CGTA continues to apply this experience for ongoing maintenance and operations engineering support, and to the Ontario feed-in-tariff and behind-the-meter programs performing studies and detailed engineering design for cogeneration facilities and simple cycle reciprocating engines gensets.
CGTA’s high voltage electrical design and commissioning experience has carried through to the renewables sectors in Ontario for wind and solar projects.
The client base has found CGTA’s engineering and maintenance knowledge valuable to their facilities ongoing operations. CGTA continues to expand and train its staff to provide engineering services to these clients who demand experienced engineering.
The ongoing continuity in the depth of experience and knowledge makes CGTA uniquely qualified to provide the highest quality engineering services to its clients.