89 Queensway Avenue West
Suite 800
Mississauga, ON
L5B 2V2
Phone: 905.896.8900
Fax: 905.896.8911

EllisDon is an employee-owned company that completes in excess of $2 billion in new construction annually and delivers construction expertise to clients throughout the world. The company offers not only construction and project management but now a growing range of construction consulting services in risk management and technology. For more information visit ellisdon.com.

3400 One First Canadian Place
P.O. Box 130
Toronto, ON
M5X 1A4
Phone: 416.863.1200
Fax: 416.863.1716

Bennett Jones LLP is an internationally recognized Canadian law firm founded and focused on principles of professional excellence, integrity, respect and independent thought. With offices in Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton and Ottawa, Bennett Jones includes many of Canada’s brightest legal and business minds working across every sector of business, industry and government. For more information visit bennettjones.com.

$277 million

2012 Rank: 93

2011 Ranking: 88

Sector: Transit

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Owner: GO Transit (a division of Metrolinx)

Key Players:

Project/Construction Manager: CN Rail (construction manager—advance piling, supplier: material for advance piling contract); McCormick Rankin Corporation, a member of the MMM Group (construction management, contract administration)

Engineer: Delcan (engineer of record)

Other: Delcan (track alignment design, contract drawings, drainage analysis, regulatory analysis); Giffels, a part of the Ingenium Group and MMM Group in a joint venture (AGM program managers); Golder Associates (subconsultant to Delcan for geo-technical design, vibration monitoring; noise monitoring for Metrolinx); Hatch Mott MacDonald

Financing: Public

Federal/Provincial GO TRIP: $159 million

Description:

This project will improve commuter service reliability, eliminate at-grade conflicts with freight rail traffic, and support overall improvements to service on the GO Transit Georgetown/Weston rail corridor through the construction of a new rail-rail grade separation. Interlocking steel pipe piles are being used to form the outer walls of the depressed corridor. The main contract involves the construction of several precast, pre-stressed, rail carrying bridges that will be erected by lateral sliding during rail track blocks.