Port Mann Bridge/Highway 1 Improvements

Rank 2024

NR

Industry Sector: Transportation

Project Type: Bridge

Project Value: $3.3 billion

Funding Source: P3

Provincial Funding: $3.3 billion

Province: British Columbia

City / Region: Vancouver

This project involves replacing the dominant Port Mann Bridge across the Fraser River, widening 37 km of the highway through the eastern suburbs of Vancouver, reconstructing 11 interchanges, constructing or rehabilitating 42 on-shore bridges, and rebuilding the Cape Horn-Lougheed Highway Interchange. The project also includes construction of the new Fraser Heights Connector to link Highway 1 with the recently completed Golden Ears Crossing and the recently completed South Fraser Perimeter Road.

Construction of the bridge’s final two lanes and connections to highway 1 were expected to finish in 2014, but weather-related difficulties have pushed finishing

Project Owner: Province of British Columbia

Engineer: Delcan (program engineer); MMM Group, Golder Associates, CH2M HILL (subconsultants to Delcan); H5M—JV of Hatch Mott MacDonald and MMM Group (prime design consultants—onshore works); T.Y. Lin International (prime design consultant—New Concession Bridge)

Contractor: Kiewit-Flatiron General Partnership (design-build)— Peter Kiewit Sons Co. and Flatiron Constructors Canada

Other Key Players: Partnerships BC (procurement manager and project developer)

2015 Rank: 10

2014 Rank: 8