One wild, enormous project

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Now completed, a Kelowna company’s wildlife overpass is the longest in the world.

A record-breaking feat of engineering has just been completed in B.C.’s Yoho National Park, and the Kelowna company that built it says the project went up “without a hitch.”

The massive wildlife overpass spans multiple lanes of traffic across the Trans-Canada Highway, and is now the longest animal overpass in the world.

Sean Holkestad is a project manager at Belvedere Place Contracting Ltd., the company that built the overpass, and he says the $6.5-million project will allow protected wildlife to safely make it from one side of the highway to the other.

He explains the project was groundbreaking not just for its size, but also because of its ambitious design.

For more on the project, including the staggering lengths engineers had to go to get it done, check out the full story on Castanet's sister business news website, Okanagan Edge.