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 Group, Phase 3 is being funded through a federal-provincial cost-share under Building Canada Fund.

Status: Phase 3 East is scheduled for completion in 2011; Phase 3 West is to be completed in 2012. Design and construction proposals for this segment are due in early October, and the contract will be awarded in November. The Hill-to-Portal section of Phase 3 is scheduled for completion in 2012.

Project Details: The Kicking Horse Canyon Project involves the improvement of 26 kilometres of the Trans-Canada Highway from Highway 95 in Golden to the western boundary of Yoho National Park to a modern four lane standard with a design speed of 100 kilometres per hour to move traffic more safely and efficiently. Sharp curves and steep grades are being reduced, and narrow bridges are being replaced to increase capacity, improve traffic operations and reduce hazards. The third of four phases involves reconstruction and widening of 8.8 kilometres of highway between the 10 Mile Hill commercial vehicle brake check and Yoho Park, including a new crossing of Mount Hunter Creek (Phase 3 East), and 3.5 kilometres of improvements from Golden Hill to the “West Portal,” the location of a possible future highway tunnel in the Canyon (Phase 3 West).

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 system. Under construction are a grade separation at Walker Road and the CPR rail line and improvements to Manning Road.

Project Details: The Windsor-Detroit border is one of the busiest connections between Canada and the United States, but the infrastructure on the Canadian side leads to constant delays. The entrance to the Detroit-Windsor tunnel is located in a congested area in downtown Windsor while access to the Ambassador Bridge is by a non-controlled access arterial road.

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 warehouse inspection facilities and commercial toll booths that will allow for more efficient processing of vehicles. Improved efficiency will reduce traffic congestion at this key border crossing and will help reduce air pollution from idling vehicles.

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 from the traffic crossing the bridge and savings from discontinuing the ferry operations and the winter ice crossing.

Status: Scheduled for completion in 2010.

Project Details: The Deh Cho Bridge will be a two-lane structure totaling 1,045 metres in length and will be built at the current ferry-crossing site. It will allow year-round access from the mainland to the community of Fort Providence, replacing the current ferry and ice bridge services.

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.

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 able to secure a design-build contract at just $168.6 million.

Status: Scheduled for completion in 2011.

Project Details: Work has on a desperately needed interchange at Stony Plain Road and Anthony Henday Drive. According to the province, the design-build P3 method of delivery will get the interchange up and running faster than would the traditional method of delivery. The Stony Plain Road interchange will be a full systems interchange with free flow in all directions and will include seven bridges. Construction on Anthony Henday Drive will extend from Whitemud Drive to south of Yellowhead Trail in west Edmonton. This is Alberta Transportation’s first pure design-build project.

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 50 years after construction wraps up in November 2010. This year, the westbound lanes of Whitemud Drive will be widened, as will the east sides of both the Quesnell Bridge and the overpass on Fox Drive. Construction of retaining walls, an entrance to Fort Edmonton Park, and a

multi-use trail west of the bridge is also planned for 2009.

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 and Works is carrying out a five-year program to upgrade 530 kilometres of the Trans Labrador Highway between Happy Valley – Goose Bay and Wabush. This highway runs through isolated, rugged, and sparsely populated terrain in Labrador.

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 cover those payments.

Status: Scheduled for completion in 2011.

Project Details: This is Quebec’s first P3 in the transportation sector. A 7.2-kilometre, four-lane extension to Highway 25 will unite Highway A-440 at Laval and Henri Bourassa Boulevard in Montreal. A new six-lane 1.2-kilometre bridge linking Laval and Montreal Island across Riviere des Prairies is also included.

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 federal share coming from the Provincial Territorial Base Funding Agreement ($68.35 million) and the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative ($33.25 million). Manitoba will match the federal funds and contribute an additional $9.2 million for land acquisition.

Status: Scheduled for completion in 2011.

Project Details: The CentrePort, which is Manitoba’s inland port, is centrally and strategically located at the heart of North America to connect businesses to world markets. It is centred on Winnipeg’s James Armstrong Richardson International Airport. The initiative involves using the airport and surrounding land as a hub to import goods from Asia and Europe and then distributing those goods throughout North America by air, rail and road. The CentrePort Canada initiative includes the development of a high-speed transportation corridor for the Inland Port. The funding will develop CentrePort Canada Way, a four-lane divided expressway linking the inland port to the Perimeter Highway.