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  - We are equipped to manage entire barrier projects, ensuring a seamless and coordinated execution. We can also work on one component of your project, providing any combination of design, supply and installation services to fit specific project needs.
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  - We work with every industry that requires waterway barriers or ice engineering services, including maritime transportation, oil and gas production, environmental protection agencies, construction and infrastructure development, and water utilities.
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Our Company

What We Do

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Regardless of your application, Geniglace offers a complete end-to-end turnkey service. We understand your operational needs and environmental challenges. We have deep understanding of the engineering and practicalities of implementing your project.

We are committed to:

The safety of all people involved in the project.
The quality of design and manufacture of our work.
Minimizing the impact of our work on our clients

Our Company

Geniglace engineers have been designing and installing booms and solving waterway and ice-related problems for more than forty years. We have delivered over one hundred turnkey installations to date. Our deep expertise and experience of the operational requirements as well as our understanding and first-hand knowledge of the real-world environment in which these booms have to work ensures that we deliver booms that meet your needs and will work reliably in the toughest condition.

Our uniqueness stems from our ability to solve a wide variety of design and engineering problems related to waterways in cold regions. With assistance from our diverse network of subcontractors and suppliers, we deliver on time and on budget – every time. We have unrivaled capability in turnkey waterway barrier projects engineered to withstand the toughest conditions. We provide peace of mind for you during implementation, and peace of mind in the years after.

Three things truly differentiate Geniglace from other companies that may appear to do similar work:

We provide turnkey solutions - an end-to-end service from initial survey to handover. This involves:
- Understanding your operational needs and the realities of your operational environmental conditions.
- Design and engineering to ensure you end up with the implementation that you need.
- Deep involvement with the manufacture and installation to ensure that each project is implemented to the highest standards of quality, risk management and safety.
We specialize and focus on designing and building barriers for waterways. We have broad and deep expertise in this niche field – we know the art of the possible and all the pitfalls.
Our solutions can withstand the toughest conditions. We have real understanding of the nature of water and ice, and the forces and stresses that they put on your booms. We know because we spend time in the field on the water and the ice. We blend academic understanding with real world knowledge to produce booms that do what they are supposed to, they perform, and they last.

Our Team

Razek Abdelnour MSc, ing.

President

Razek brings his extensive wisdom regarding all things ice, waterways, flow and engineering to ensure that Geniglace solutions are optimal for their operational and environmental needs. He has spent over 50 years advancing the science and practice of ice engineering — conducting field investigations, leading laboratory research, and developing design methodologies that have since become standard practice across the industry. He founded Geniglace in 2012 following a distinguished career at BMT Fleet Technology, holds two patents in ice-resistant boom technology, and has authored over 85 peer-reviewed papers and conference proceedings. Today, Razek focuses on senior technical oversight and mentoring the next generation of engineers at Geniglace.

Elie Abdelnour P.Eng. ,ing.

Vice-President / Principal Engineer

Elie leads Geniglace's design and engineering work, combining expertise in mechanical engineering and fluid dynamics with over 20 years of hands-on experience designing, fabricating, and installing boom systems across Canada and the United States. Design work includes the use of environmental data, measurement of currents and bathymetry, GIS mapping surveys, the preparation of shop and final drawings, cost estimates, and project scheduling. Elie also sets Geniglace's engineering and quality standards, and has co-authored numerous papers with Razek published in industry journals.

Matt Kilmer P.Eng.

Design Engineer

Matt carries the primary technical workload on Geniglace's projects, from calculations and design drawings through to fabrication oversight and installation. Matt brings a strong structural and geotechnical foundation that's particularly relevant to boom and anchor system design. Being heavily involved on site during installation means engineering questions can be resolved in real time, keeping projects right the first time with quality, risk, and safety built in throughout.

Oluchi Eze EIT

Project Manager

Oluchi leads project coordination, scheduling, and client communication, ensuring Geniglace's projects run smoothly from technical studies through to site supervision. She brings bilingual capability in English and French alongside strong organizational and technical communication skills. Her work spans permitting support, environmental documentation, material procurement, and transportation logistics, ensuring the administrative and regulatory dimensions of every project are handled with the same rigour as the technical work.

Pascal Flynn EIT

Power Systems Innovation Manager

Pascal supports Geniglace’s expansion into renewable energy by leading the development of the company’s floating photovoltaic initiative. With a background in electrical engineering and sustainable energy, he coordinates the research, engineering, and business development required to bring new technologies from concept toward commercial implementation.