Ottawa LRT – Stage 2

Rank 2025

18

Image Credit: City of Ottawa

Industry Sector: Transit

Project Type: LRT

Project Value: $4.675 billion

Funding Source: P3

Federal Funding: $1 billion

Provincial Funding: $1.208 billion

Municipal Funding: $2.449 billion

Province: Ontario

City / Region: Ottawa

Estimated End Date of Substantial Completion: 2026

The Stage 2 Light Rail project, when complete, will extend the O-Train system farther south, east, and west, adding approximately 44 kilometres of new rail and 24 new stations.Stage 2 is a package of three extensions—south, east, and west: The O-Train South extension will see rail service continue from Greenboro to Limebank in Riverside South, while adding a link to the Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport; the O-Train East extension will see LRT continue from Blair to Place d’Orléans Station, and then all the way to Trim Road; and the O-Train West extension will see LRT continue from Tunney’s Pasture to Moodie and Baseline Stations.

Project Owner: City of Ottawa

Engineer: STV Group, AECOM (consulting), Parsons and Stantec (Capital Transit Partners/owner’s engineer)

P3 Team Members/Project Team: Design-Build Teams: Kiewit, Vinci, WSP, and Hatch (Confederation Line east and west extension design build); AtkinsRéalis (Trillium Line design build maintain); EXP; Golder (WSP) (owner’s engineer); EllisDon (environmental)

Environmental Services: WSP (environmental lead)

Other Key Players: Rideau Transit Maintenance (Confederation Line maintainer); Aon (owner’s advisor and construction insurance broker); Deloitte (owner’s advisor); A.W. Hooker Associates Ltd. (Independent Certifier); PCL Construction (contractor); SENER (Independent Safety Auditor); INFRATA (managing consultant): ACS Infrastructure; Dragados Canada; Bird Construction; Colliers Project Leaders (project management support services); Englobe; GFL (excavation, shoring, soil management); Hanscomb (cost consultant); NORR Architects & Engineers (design/architect); Tiree (contract management); E.S. Fox; HKA, Accuracy (management consultant); Turner & Townsend (project management); TULLOCH; GHD (quality control)

Vehicle Supplier Names: Alstom (Confederation Line vehicles); Stadler (Trillium Line vehicles)

Supplier Other: Thales (Confederation Line signaling technology); Siemens (Trillium Line signaling technology); DECAST

Legal: Borden Ladner Gervais, Norton Rose Fulbright (owner’s legal advisor); Dentons; McMillan LLP: Torys (consortium); Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP

Road or Transit Length (km): 30

2024 Rank: 18

2023 Rank: 18

2022 Rank: 18

2021 Rank: 18

2020 Rank: 15

2019 Rank: 18

2018 Rank: 17

2017 Rank: 17

2016 Rank: 13