North End Sewage Treatment Plant Upgrades

Rank 2025

37

Image Credit: City of Winnipeg

Industry Sector: Other

Project Type: Water Wastewater

Project Value: $2.34 billion

Funding Source: Public

Federal Funding: $317 million

Provincial Funding: $264 million

Municipal Funding: $1.755 billion

Province: Manitoba

City / Region: Winnipeg

Estimated End Date of Substantial Completion: 2030

The scope of work for the first capital project includes the design and construction of a new headworks facility that will include a raw sewage pump station, a micro-tunnel extension of existing interceptor sewers, a grit removal system, a main control room, fine screens and compactors, and a plant emergency generator facility. This project is currently in construction. The second capital project includes the design and construction of a new biosolids facility that will address end-of-life equipment and regulatory requirements regarding the recovery of nutrients and maximizing biosolids reuse. It will add new facilities to treat the sludge from the City’s three sewage treatment plants and replace end-of-life equipment. The third capital project includes the design and construction of the nutrient removal facilities that will remove nitrogen and phosphorus from the wastewater.

Project Owner: City of Winnipeg

Engineer: KGS Group (owner’s advocate/consultant)—NEWPCC Power Supply; AECOM (consulting engineer)—NEWPCC Upgrade: Headworks, Biosolids & Nutrient Removal Facilities, Design Builder—NEWPCC Power Supply: Black & Macdonald, AECOM (design engineer), Design Builder—NEWPCC Headwork Facilities: Red River Solutions (Aecon/Oscar Renda JV); Hatch (design engineer)—NEWPCC Biosolids Facilities Upgrade: Red River Biosolids Partners General Partnership (Aecon, Oscar Renda Contracting of Canada Inc., MWH Constructors Canada Ltd.

Other Key Players: EY (management consultant); Veolia; P1 Consulting Ltd.; KGS Group Ltd. (owner’s advocate/consultant); Wood (WSP) (design engineer/geotechnical studies); Stantec (engineer-design); Colliers Project Leaders; Hanscomb (cost consultant); Deloitte LLP; Buy Social Canada; Victaulic (supplier)

Legal: Blake, Cassels & Graydon

2024 Rank: 36

2023 Rank: 40

2022 Rank: 41

2021 Rank: 38

2020 Rank: 35

2019 Rank: 43

2018 Rank: 62

2017 Rank: 79

2016 Rank: 82