GO Expansion – On-Corridor Works

Rank 2024

2

Image Credit: Phillp Hall/Metrolinx

Industry Sector: Transit

Project Type: Rail

Project Value: $15.705 billion

Funding Source: P3

Provincial Funding: Allotment to Metrolinx: $15.705 billion

Province: Ontario

City / Region: Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area

Estimated End Date of Substantial Completion: 2032

As On-Corridor Works is a complex regional project with multiple external interfaces, stakeholders, utility and operational elements, it is being delivered as a Progressive DBOM (design-build-operate-maintain) model. In a Progressive model, the project features a collaborative approach between the project owner and the contracting partner. In the Spring of 2022, Metrolinx and Infrastructure Ontario (IO) executed an agreement with ONxpress Transportation Partners (ONxpress) to enter the Development Phase of the On-Corridor Works project—the largest project in Metrolinx’s GO Rail Expansion program.

Unprecedented in its scale and complexity, this multi-billion-dollar capital program will transform the regional rail network with electrification, more frequent service, shorter journey times and a more modernized system for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Region. 

Project Owner: Metrolinx

Project/Construction Manager: Procurement Agent: Infrastructure Ontario

P3 Team Members/Project Team: ONxpress Transportation Partners Systems and Integration Team: ALSTOM Transport Canada Inc. Construction, Design and Engineering Team: Aecon Infrastructure Management Inc., ALSTOM Transport Canada Inc., FCC Construccion S.A., WSP Canada, Hatch Fixed Infrastructure Maintenance Team: Deutsche Bahn International Operations GmbH, Aecon O&M, a division of Aecon Construction Group Inc. Operator Team: Deutsche Bahn International Operations GmbH, Aecon O&M, a division of Aecon Construction Group Inc.

Other Key Players: : Morrison Hershfield (engineer: planning and environmental); Wood E&I (WSP) (consulting engineer/geotechnical studies/environmental assessment); Dillon Consulting (architectural services); Golder-a WSP company (geotechnical studies); EY (mgmt. consultant); Deloitte (mgmt. consultant); Comtech (project mgmt. consultant); Entuitive; Parsons (consulting engineer); R.V. Anderson Associates Ltd.; Turner & Townsend (project controls); AECOM (owner’s engineer); Arup (engineer); SEMP Ltd. (consulting engineer); TULLOCH; Egis

Legal: Borden Ladner Gervais (for the owner); Dentons; Stikeman Elliott LLP; McMillan LLP (ONxpress)

2023 Rank: 2

2022 Rank: 2

2021 Rank: 1

2020 Rank: 1