$310 million
2012 Rank: 84
2011 Rank: 78
Sector: Social Infrastructure
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Owner: Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Key Players:
Engineer: Enermodal Engineering, a member of MMM Group (LEED, energy, commissioning consultant); Crosier Kilgour Partners, Halcrow Yolles, part of Halcrow Group (structural); & KGS Group (civil); The Mitchell Partnership, SMS Engineering (mechanical); Mulvey+Banani International, AGE Power Consultants, part of MCW Group (electrical);
Architect: Antoine Predock Architect (design architect); Scatliff+Miller+Murray (landscape architects); Smith Carter Architects (executive architect/prime consultant);
Contractor: PCL (construction manager, concrete structure)
Description:
The Museum features three major components: concrete, steel, and glass. Finishing includes Tyndall stone, alabaster, and a large glazed glass superstructure. It is targeting LEED Silver certification. Currently under construction, completion is scheduled for 2012.
LEED Target: Silver
$320 million
2012 Rank: 83
2011 Rank: 77
Sector: BRT
Location: Mississauga, Ontario
Owner: City of Mississauga; Metrolinx/GO Transit
Key Players:
Engineer: H.H. Angus (station mechanical/electrical consultant); Giffels, a part of the Ingenium Group, Golder Associates (subconsultant to Giffels—IBI Group, geotechnical); IBI Group (prime consultant, design); McCormick Rankin Corporation, a member of the MMM Group (prime consultant, design, contract administration); MMM Group (station structural consultant); Thurber Engineering (geotechnical);
Architect: IBI Group (station architecture)
Funding: Public
Federal Canadian Strategic Infrastructure Fund: $83 million ($59 million to City of Mississauga and $24 million to GO Transit)
Provincial $113 million ($65 million to the City of Mississauga and $48 million in GO Transit investments)
Municipal City of Mississauga: $124 million
Description:
This dedicated east-west transit corridor (busway) across Mississauga will run along Highway 403 (combining the use of the existing bus bypass shoulders), Eastgate Parkway and Eglinton Avenue corridors connecting Winston Churchill Boulevard in the west to Renforth Drive in the east. The busway will connect with local bus service (Mississauga Transit), interregional bus service (GO), the TTC Bloor Subway (Kipling Station) and the planned Eglinton Crosstown LRT (project number one), with additional service to Toronto Pearson Airport.
$337 million
2012 Rank: 81
2011 Rank: 75
Sector: Natural Gas
Location: King Township, Ontario
Owner: Pristine Power, Harbert York Canada Company
Key Players:
Engineer: Gryphon International Engineering Services (collaborating engineer); POWER Engineers;
Contractor: Lill & DiFazio Constructors
Supplier: Siemens (gas turbine generators, supporting gas turbine auxiliaries)
Other: Dillon Consulting (permitting manager, EA)
Funding: Private
Financing: A syndicate of financial institutions, led by Union Bank, ING Capital LLC and Royal Bank of Canada and including Bank of Nova Scotia, Siemens Financial, National Bank of Canada, Canadian Western Bank and Allied Irish Banks, PLC, will provide construction and term non-recourse debt financing of $270.2 million, as well as a $60-million letter of credit facility and a $3-million operating working capital facility.
Description:
This gas-fired peaking generation facility has a 20-year peaking generation contract with the OPA. It has a nameplate capacity of 456 MW and a contracted capacity of 393 MW with OPA. The turbine selected for this project requires no water and uses air to cool the system. The power plant is a peaker, not a full-time producer of electricity. This means that the plant will operate only 10 per cent of the year. Currently, the residents of the area are served by one transmission line from the Claireville Transformer Station in Vaughan. As of June 2011 construction is underway. The exhaust stacks have been installed, along with underground drainage and the fire water main. The structural steel for the control and warehouse buildings has been completed and cladding is being stalled. Both the turbine and generator are in place with the enclosures and auxiliaries are almost complete.
$345 million
2012 Rank: 79
2011 Rank: 74
Sector: LRT
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Owner: TTC
Key Players:
Engineer: AECOM (detailed design, site evaluation, construction phase support)
Architect: Brown and Storey Architects (urban/landscape design); Scott Torrance Landscape Architect (landscape architecture)
Other: AECOM (EA); EllisDon/GFL (contaminated soil removal)
Funding: Public
Status: Construction is expected to begin in 2011, with completion scheduled for 2013.
Description:
This new facility will provide service and storage for the new low-floor light-rail vehicles (LRVs) that will be replacing the current fleet of streetcars in Toronto. The new vehicles will begin arriving in 2013. A key element of the project is the decommissioning of 375,000 square metres of contaminated fill that was stockpiled on the site. A separate substation building and a large stormwater management pond is located on the site. According to AECOM, the detailed design process included developing special footings to support the building on the poor ground on the site, and a difficult relocation of six 115 kV underground Hydro One feeders which crossed the site.
Design also had to comply with the City of Toronto’s Green Standards. The Ashbridges Bay facility has had some fierce opposition from local area residents and Beaches-East York’s Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon, who believes that it will increase congestion in her ward during rush hour. As well, issues of property values, damage to homes from increased vibrations, and the necessity of this facility have all been under debate. According to the plan’s opponents, the TTC’s public consultation process was a major failure. While the TTC maintains that it held more than 40 public meetings regarding the facility’s location, residents have complained that the process did not actually take their perspectives and opinions into account.
$350 million
2012 Rank: 76
2011 Rank: 73
Sector: Water/Wastewater
Location: Mississauga, Ontario
Owner: Peel Region
Key Players:
Engineer: CH2M HILL (design consultant); Hatch Mott MacDonald, MACTEC Federal Programs (value engineering)
Contractor: Asco Construction (administration and maintenance building: general contractor); Kenaidan (general contractor); Quantum Murray (demolition)
Supplier: General Electric (membranes)
Other: Ontario Clean Water Agency (operations)
Funding: Public
Description:
Fully funded by the Region of Peel, through its Capital Projects Delivery Program, the plant is being expanded from 820 megalitres per day (ML/day) to 1,150 ML/day.
LEED Target: Administration and maintenance building at Lakeview—Silver
$350 million
2012 Rank: 77
2011 Rank: 72
Sector: Water/Wastewater
Location: Kitchener, Ontario
Owner: Region of Waterloo
Key Players:
Engineer: AECOM (Phase 3: design consultant for Plant 3 Upgrades); CH2M HILL (Phase 2: design, construction administration for the Kitchener WWTP UV and Plant 2 upgrades); Tetra Tech (Phase 1: design, contract administration for Manitou Drive Biosolids Dewatering Facility)
Funding: Public
Federal FCM’s Green Municipal Fund: $2 million loan; $200,000 grant for Plant 2 Upgrades
Municipal Region of Waterloo: $350 million
Description:
This project includes a new LEED Silver biosolids dewatering facility, refurbishment of the Plant 2 secondary treatment processes, a new ultraviolet (UV) disinfection facility and effluent pumping station and, finally, decommissioning of the biosolids lagoons, refurbishing of the preliminary and primary unit processes, adding standby power, and building a new Plant 3 process train. Currently the UV disinfection and effluent pumping station facilities are under construction, along with the upgrades to plant number two. After construction is complete, the next phase will be the decommissioning of the biosolids storage lagoon to make way for construction of the new treatment plant.
LEED Target: Dewatering biosolids facility—Silver
$353.7 million
2012 Rank: 75
2011 Rank: 71
Sector: Port
Location: Strait of Canso, Nova Scotia
Owner: Melford International Terminal
Key Players:
Contractor: Melford International Terminal, Cyrus Capital Partners, Maher Terminals (developers); RailAmerica (rail service providers)
Other: Millbrook First Nation (investment, consulting services)
Funding: Private
Description:
The new Maher Melford Terminal will connect to key interior North American markets through intermodal rail service which serves Nova Scotia via its East Coast Main Line. Construction is expected to begin in 2012.
$370 million
2012 Rank: 73
2011 Rank: 70
Sector: Health Care
Location: Barrie, Ontario
Owner: Royal Victoria Hospital
Key Players:
Engineer: H.H. Angus (mechanical, electrical);
BF Team: Carillion Construction
Other: Infrastructure Ontario (procurement manager and project development)
Funding: P3 (Build-Finance)
Status: Under construction, with expected completion in 2013.
Description:
This project nearly doubles the size of the existing hospital. Last year’s Top 100 listed the contract price at $258.5 million. The estimated total cost of the project is $370 million. This cost includes the fixed construction contract with Carillion as well as other estimated costs related to the project such as furniture, equipment, permits, architectural and engineering fees, transactional and project management fees and the hospital’s early works projects. Under construction, with expected completion in 2013.
$379 million
2012 Rank: 72
2011 Rank: 69
Sector: Justice
Location: Kitchener, Ontario
Owner: Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General
Key Players: Infrastructure Ontario (procurement manager and project development ); Integrated Team Solutions— Fengate Capital Management/LPF Infrastructure Fund, EllisDon, NORR Limited Architects & Engineers, part of the Ingenium Group/AECOM Services, CIT Canada (design-build-finance-maintain); Enermodal Engineering, a member of MMM Group (LEED, energy, commissioning consultant)
Funding: P3 (DBFM)
Provincial $379 million
Financing: Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada and The Canada Life Assurance Company are bond underwriters, together with a banking group consisting of Bank of Montreal, CIBC, Laurentian Bank of Canada, and National Bank of Canada. Equity is being provided by Fengate Capital Management/LPF Infrastructure Fund and EllisDon Incorporated.
Description:
The new facility, targeting LEED Silver, will consolidate the Superior Court of Justice and Ontario Court of Justice, currently operating in three locations across Waterloo Region. Under construction, completion is scheduled for 2013.
LEED Target: Silver
