Browsing Transportation

Kicking Horse Canyon Phase 3

$134.5 million
Sector: Transportation
Location: Brake Check to Yoho National Park (Phase 3 East) and Golden Hill to West Portal (Phase 3 West), British Columbia
Key Players: The Focus Corporation (owner’s engineer); Ledcor CMI Ltd. (contractor, Phase 3 East)
Owner: BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure
Financing: Public – While Phase 2 was a DBFO with private partner Trans-Park Highway [...]

Windsor Gateway Project

$128 million
Sector: Transportation
Location: Windsor, Ontario
Key Players: Dillon Consulting (Environmental Assessment)
Owner: Ontario Ministry of Transportation
Financing: Public – Federal, provincial and municipal contributions.
Status: Ontario is committed to a new river crossing, access road and inspection plaza by 2013. Recently completed projects include intersection improvements and a pedestrian bridge on Huron Church Road and installation of a camera-monitoring [...]

Queenston-Lewiston Bridge Crossing

$130 million
Sector: Transportation
Location: Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Key Players: Aecon Group Inc. (construction contract); CRH Build (project management)
Owner: Niagara Falls Bridge Commission (NFBC) Financing: Public – $62 million from the Government of Canada and $12.9 million from the NFBC.
Status: Under construction.
Project Details: Phase Two improvements to the Queenston Plaza will consist of additional passenger primary inspection lanes, commercial [...]

Deh Cho Bridge

$132 million
Sector: Transportation
Location: Fort Providence, Northwest Territories
Key Players: Atcon Construction Inc. (general contractor); Deh Cho Bridge Corporation (conceptual design)
Owner: Government of the NWT
Financing: P3 – This DBFOM contract is unusual for the government of the Northwest Territories. The government will pay the corporation for the bridge over a 35-year period largely from toll revenues collected [...]

Queen Elizabeth Way Widening

$167 million
Sector: Transportation
Location: St. Catharines, Ontario
Key Players: Dufferin Construction (contractor); URS Canada Inc., Morrison Hershfield (design)
Owner: Ontario Ministry of Transportation
Financing: Public – Substantial federal funding under Border Infrastructure Funding.
Status: Scheduled for completion in 2011.
Project Details: Widening of 9.4 kilometres to six lanes from Seventh Street South to the Garden City Skyway.

Anthony Henday Drive and Stony Plain Road Interchanger

$168 million
Sector: Transportation
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Key Players: KMC/PCL – a joint venture between Kiewit and PCL (general contractor, design); CH2M HILL Canada Limited (primary consultant); M.A.P. Earthworks Ltd., Standard General Inc., MCL Power Inc., COPPS Piledriving (subcontractors)
Owner: Government of Alberta Financing: P3 – Design-build was pegged to cost about $300 million, but the government has been [...]

Quesnell Bridge and Whitemud Drive-Edmonton

$181 million
Sector: Transportation
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Key Players: ConCreate USL Ltd. (general contractor)
Owner: City of Edmonton
Financing: Public – Funding comes from provincial grants, through the Municipal Sustainability Initiative, and the Gas Tax Rebate.
Status: Scheduled for completion in 2010.
Project Details: Edmonton’s busiest bridge is getting a longevity-enhancing overhaul. Quesnell Bridge, built in 1967, is expected to last another [...]

Trans-Labrador Highway

$175 million
Sector: Transportation
Location: Happy Valley – Goose Bay to Wabush, Newfoundland & Labrador
Key Players: Hatch Mott MacDonald (design and construction management for kilometres 6 – 186)
Owner: Newfoundland & Labrador Department of Transportation and Works
Financing: Public – Part of a five year program.
Status: Scheduled for completion in 2013.
Project Details: The Newfoundland & Labrador Department of Transportation [...]

Autoroute 25 Expansion

$210 million
Sector: Transportation
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Key Players: Concession A25 S.E.C. – Macquarie Group (financing), Kiewit-Parsons (design-build construction); Miller Paving (long-term maintenance); St. Lawrence Cement (supplier), GENIVAR (engineering); TransCore (tolling)
Owner: Quebec Ministry of Transportation
Financing: P3 – A 35-year design, build, maintain contract with the consortium paid through construction and availability payments. The government will collect tolls to [...]

CentrePort Canada Way Expressway

$212 million
Sector: Transportation
Location: Connecting Inkster Boulevard (PR 221), the James A. Richardson International Airport and the CP Weston rail intermodal facility to the Perimeter Highway near Saskatchewan Avenue, Manitoba
Key Players: Province of Manitoba still tendering work.
Owner: Province of Manitoba
Financing: Public – The expressway is being funded jointly by the provincial and federal governments, with the [...]