GO Expansion Projects – Early Works

Rank 2024

7

Image Credit: Metrolinx

Industry Sector: Transit

Project Type: Rail

Project Value: $10.513 billion

Funding Source: Public

Provincial Funding: Capital allotment to Metrolinx: $10.513 billion

Province: Ontario

City / Region: Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area

Estimated End Date of Substantial Completion: 2025

The Early Works portion of the GO Expansion project is one of three blocks of works to be done to accommodate two-way, all-day transit throughout the GTHA corridor.

There are over 50 individual projects included in the early works program, including 40 smaller projects delivered as Design-Build or Design-Bid-Build, along with 12 larger projects delivered as Build-Finance and Design-Build-Finance. The latter includes the Davenport Diamond Rail Grade Separation Project, for which the winning bidder was selected in July 2019, and the Highway 401 Rail Tunnel, which began construction in March 2019, and the Stouffville Corridor Stations Improvement project. The program also includes the Union Station Enhancement project, which will see construction of a new South Concourse, track expansion east of the station and replacement of the 90-year-old signalling system with new state-of-the-art signals, communications, power supply, CCTV, and SCADA systems.

Project Owner: Metrolinx

Engineer: Wood E&I (WSP) (consulting/geotechnical studies); Parsons; Hatch; AECOM

Contractor: EllisDon (Dufferin/Queen bridge); Kenaidan/Cole Engineering (rapid pedestrian tunnels)

Project/Construction Manager: Procurement Agent: Infrastructure Ontario

P3 Team Members/Project Team: DBF Team (Highway 401 Rail Tunnel): Toronto Tunnel Partners • Applicant Lead: EllisDon Capital Inc. and STRABAG Inc. • Construction: EllisDon Civil Ltd. and STRABAG Inc. • Design: WSP Canada, Dr. Sauer & Partners, Amec Foster Wheeler (Wood) • Financial Advisor: EllisDon Capital Inc. and STRABAG Inc. DBF Team (Davenport Diamond Grade Separation project): Graham Commuter Rail Solutions • Applicant Lead: Graham Capital Partners LP and Gracorp Capital Ltd.; Graham Construction and Engineering LP • Construction: Graham Construction and Engineering LP • Design: LEA Consulting Ltd. as Design Lead; EXP; International Bridge Technologies; Brown & Storey Architects Inc. • Financial Advisor: Graham Capital Partners LP AllianceTeam (Union Station Enhancement project): ONTrack Alliance • Constructors: Kiewit-Alberici Union General Partnership • Designers: WSP Canada Inc. • Signalling Work: Mass. Electric Construction Canada Co.

Other Key Players: 4-Transit JV (technical advisory services): Hatch, Parsons, WSP; CIMA+ (utilities relocation); Morrison Hershfield (owner’s technical advisors team (sub-consultant to Gannett Fleming); Comtech (program/project consulting); Jacobs (program mgmt.); A.W. Hooker Associates Ltd. (cost consultant); Golder-a WSP company (environmental services); INTECH Risk Management; Deloitte (transaction advisor); Aon (risk advisor); Comtech (mgmt. consulting services); DECAST; Hemmera; Entuitive; Arcadis-IBI Group (environmental engineering); EXP; GFL (shoring, soil management); Hanscomb (cost consultant); R.V. Anderson Associates Ltd.; Turner & Townsend (project controls); E.S. Fox; TULLOCH; Infrastructure Ontario; Egis

Legal: Borden Ladner Gervais; Norton Rose Fulbright (owner’s advisor); Torys

2023 Rank: 7

2022 Rank: 7

2021 Rank: 8

2020 Rank: 7