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Construction Begins on Windsor-Essex Parkway Project

Construction has officially begun on the Windsor-Essex Parkway in Ontario. The 11 kilometre long extension to highway 401 is designed to reduce traffic in residential areas and provide improved access to the United States border. Windsor-Essex Mobility Group is the consortium selected by Infrastructure Ontario to undertake this design, build, finance and maintain project. The [...]

Turcot Interchange

$3 billion 2012 Rank: 7 2011 Rank: 5 Sector: Highway Location: Montreal, Quebec Owner: Province of Quebec, Ministère des Transports du Québec 2007. Project/Construction Manager: AECOM (project manager) Engineer: SNC-Lavalin, CIMA+ (feasibility study) Contractor: MTQ (principal contractor) Funding: Public Provincial MTQ: $3 billion Description: In November 2010, Quebec Transport Minister Sam Hamad released the final [...]

Port Mann/Highway 1 Project

$2.46 billion 2012 Rank: 12 2011 Rank: 9 Sector: Highway, Bridge Location: About 37 kms from Vancouver to Langley, British Columbia Owner: Province of British Columbia (Transportation Investment Corporation) Key Players: Engineer: Delcan (program engineer); H5M—a joint venture of Hatch Mott MacDonald and MMM Group (prime design consultants—onshore works); Golder Associates, CH2M HILL (subconsultants to [...]

South Fraser Perimeter Road (SFPR) Project

$658 million 2012 Rank: 47 2011 Rank: 42 Sector: Highway Location: Delta to Surrey, British Columbia Owner: British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure Key Players: Engineer: Delcan (program engineer); Morrison Hershfield (engineering consultant); Morrison Hershfield and Arup (lender’s technical advisor) DBFM Team: The Fraser Transportation Group—ACS Infrastructure Canada, Ledcor Development, Dragados Canada, Ledcor CMI, [...]

Southeast Stoney Trail Project

$769 million 2012 Rank: 38 2011 Rank: 33 Sector: Highway Location: Calgary, Alberta Owner: Government of Alberta Key Players: Engineer: Delcan (Independent Design Reviews for roads and railway bridges, sub contractor to SNC-Lavalin); MMM Geomatics (topographic survey) DBOF Team: Chinook Roads Partnership—SNC-Lavalin Group; Acciona Other: Arup (technical due diligence for lender)  Funding: P3 (DBFO—only partial [...]

Dorval Interchange Redevelopment Project

$224 million 2010 Ranking: 69 Sector: Highway Location: Montreal, Quebec Owner: Ministère des Transports du Québec Key Players: Ministère des Transports du Québec (contractor); CIMA+ (environmental impact study, construction site supervision) Funding: Public Status: Under construction, with expected completion in 2013. Description: A project that’s been in the works for 15 years, redevelopment work on [...]

CentrePort Canada Highways

$262.5 million 2012 Rank: 96 2011 Rank: 91 Sector: Highway Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba Owner: Province of Manitoba Key Players: Engineer: Delcan (independent design review services for bridges); TBT Engineering (consulting engineer) Contractor: SNC-Lavalin (design-build) Other: MMM Group (Phase 1: functional planning study, procurement of a design-build contractor, construction oversight—grade separation for Canada Way) Funding: Public [...]

Autoroute 185

$1 billion 2012 Rank: 28 2011 Rank: 26 Sector: Highway Location: Rivière-du-Loup to the New Brunswick border, Quebec Owner: Ministry of Transportation of Québec Key Players: Engineer: AECOM (preliminary and final designs, work supervision); Other: AECOM (environmental impact study, hydraulic and hydrologic studies) Funding: Public Federal $222.5 million (Provincial/Territorial Base Funding) Provincial $1.08 billion Status: [...]

Highway 63 Corridor

$400 million 2012 Rank: 69 2011 Rank: 67 Sector: Highway Location: Fort McMurray, Alberta Owner: Province of Alberta Key Players: Engineer: AECOM, CH2M HILL (design); Gan & Gan Utilities & Engineering (utilities); Stantec (prime consultant and design); Thurber Engineering (geotechnical) Other: Dallas E. Maynard and Associates (land acquisition); HyRoad Surveys (survey) Funding: Public Description: This [...]

Autoroute 30

Autoroute 30 $1.5 billion 2012 Rank: 21 2011 Rank: 16 Sector: Highway Location: Châteauguay, Mercier, Léry, Beauharnois, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Les Cèdres, and Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec Owner: Ministère des Transports de Québec (MTQ) Key Players: Engineer: AECOM (consulting engineer, design); MMM Group (independent engineer—design review, attestation and oversight of project design and construction) Contractor: Dragados Canada, Aecon, Verreault, [...]