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Design-Build RFQ Released for Kitsilano Secondary School Project

The Vancouver School Board (VSB) has released a Request for Qualifications for a design-build project for the construction of a new secondary school. The estimated value of the project is between $55-60 million and the VSB has engaged Partnerships BC to manage the selection process for the project. The school replacement project will include a [...]

West LRT Line $35 million over budget

Calgary’s city council has learned that the West LRT, 30 on the Top 100 list, is currently $35 million over budget and that figure is expected to climb. The projected cost of the project was $1 billion, but the revised cost is expected to be closer to $1.3 billion. Primarily, the cost overruns are being [...]

Royal Victoria Hospital Expansion Completed

Infrastructure Ontario announced on May 17 the completion of the expansion at the Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) in Barrie, Ontario. The expanded facility adds 400,000 square feet of new space at the hospital and will allow it to meet the rapidly expanding needs of the community. According to Janice Skot, CEO of RVH, “After more than [...]

Veresen Inc. Announces Start of Operations at York Energy Centre

Veresen Inc. announced on May 9th the official commencement of operations at the York Energy Centre in the Township of King in Ontario. The $337 million facility ranked 81 on the 2012 Top 100 Projects list and consists of a 456 megawatt gas turbine energy facility. The plant is designed to provide peak power in [...]

Port Hope Area Initiative Project to Release RFPs for Major Projects

Speaking at the Real Property Institute of Canada conference, Walter van Veen, project manager for the Port Hope section of the PHAI, released preliminary details about the types of construction contracts that will be tendered in the coming two years for work related to the overall project. The PHAI consists of a massive clean up [...]

Alberta CCS Project Fails

Alberta’s Pioneer Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project has been scrapped. The pilot, part of the federal and provincial investment in new technologies for carbon capture, was tied to TransAlta’s Keephills 3 coal-fired power plant. The Pioneer project, located about 70 kilometres west of Edmonton, was awarded government funding in October, 2009. It secured $342.8-million from [...]

Metrolinx announces updated plans for Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown LRT

Ontario’s public transit agency, Metrolinx, has released a report that establishes how it will proceed with construction of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. After Toronto Mayor Rob Ford unilaterally cancelled Transit City, the Ontario government, through Metrolinx, agreed to put all of the transit money dedicated to Toronto into one project, the Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown LRT. This [...]

Interior Heart and Surgical Centre

The British Columbia Ministry of Health, along with Partnerships BC, have selected the preferred proponent for the new Interior Hearth and Surgical Centre in Kelowna, BC. The $448 million facility will be constructed using a design, build, partially finance, and maintain contract with Plenary Health. Plenary Health includes Plenary Group, HOK Architects, CEI Architecture Planning Interiors, [...]

Environmental Review Process Changes will Impact Top 100 Projects

While many projects on ReNew Canada’s Top 100 projects are well past the environmental review phase, certain projects could still see the benefits of the federal government’s recent changes to the environmental review process. Budget 2012 sets out a number of issues it will address to move projects through the environmental assessment (EA) phase faster [...]

Preferred bidder selected for highway 407 East extension

On March 21, 2012, Ontario’s ministry of transportation, along with Infrastructure Ontario, announced the selection of the preferred bidder for the highway 407 East extension. The contract is a design, build, finance, and maintain model, with the province acting as the operator of the new extension. The 407 East Development Group won the contract and consists [...]