Scarborough Subway Extension

Rank 2025

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Industry Sector: Transit

Project Type: Subway

Project Value: $5.5 billion

Funding Source: P3

Province: Ontario

City / Region: Scarborough

Estimated End Date of Substantial Completion: 2026

The Scarborough Subway Extension is a 7.8 kilometre extension of TTC’s Line 2 Bloor-Danforth Subway, from the existing Kennedy Station northeast to McCowan Road/Sheppard Avenue. The line will include three new stations at Lawrence Avenue and McCowan Road, Scarborough Centre and a terminal station at McCowan Road and Sheppard Avenue. The project is being delivered in two large contracts: the Stations, Rail and Systems package and the Advance Tunnel project.

Project Owner: Metrolinx

Project/Construction Manager: Procurement Manager: Infrastructure Ontario

P3 Team Members/Project Team: DBF Team (Advance Tunnel contract): Strabag Scarborough Project Inc. • Construction Team: Strabag Inc. • Design Team: ARUP Canada Inc., Brian Isherwood & Associates Ltd. • Financial Advisor: Strabag Inc. Stations, Rails & Systems contract: Scarborough Transit Connect Applicant Leads: Aecon Infrastructure Management Inc., FCC Construction S.A. Design Prime Team Member: Mott MacDonald Canada Ltd. Construction Prime Team Members: Aecon Infrastructure Management Inc., FCC Construction S.A. Engineer: OneT+ (Gannett Fleming, Arcadis-IBI Group, GHD) Design: Hatch (tunnel design); WSP (SSE systems); AECOM (station design) Environmental Services: Englobe

Other Key Players: Jacobs (quality mgmt. and risk assessment); Accenture (project/construction manager); WSP (TTC operator’s representative); Stantec (consulting engineer); Wood (WSP) (consulting engineer/geotechnical studies); CIMA+; Dillon Consulting (technical advisory services); Entuitive; EY (management consultant); GFL (excavation, shoring, soil management); Hanscomb (cost consultant); Parsons (consulting engineer); R.V. Anderson Associates Ltd.; Turner & Townsend (project controls/estimating); Montrose Environmental (environmental specialists); AGAT Labs; Aon, INTECH (risk advisor); Egis; E.S. Fox

Transmission Line Length (km): Borden Ladner Gervais (for the owner); Norton Rose Fulbright (for Strabag Scarborough Project Inc.); Dentons (legal advisor)

Road or Transit Length (km): 7.8

2024 Rank: 14

2023 Rank: 14

2022 Rank: 14

2021 Rank: 21

2020 Rank: 20

2019 Rank: 19

2018 Rank: 16

2017 Rank: 15

2016 Rank: 11

2015 Rank: 11

2014 Rank: 13

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