TOP100 2023 Report - Report - Page 28
2023
10 Réseau express métropolitain $6.9 billion
28 ReNew Canada
• ARTM - $512 million
Substantial Completion: 2024
The Réseau express metropolitain (REM) will be a new integrated network linking downtown Montreal, South Shore, West
Island, North Shore, and the airport. Once completed, the REM
will be the fourth largest automated transportation system in
the world after Singapore (82 kilometres), Dubai (80 km) and
Vancouver (68 km). For the metropolitan area, the REM also
represents the largest public transportation infrastructure
since the Montreal metro, inaugurated in 1966.
Combined with existing transportation networks (metro,
trains and buses), the REM opens a new era of public transit
development in the Greater Montreal area:
• 26 stations—67 kilometers—20 hours a day—7 days a week
• This constitutes Québec’s first “public-public”
partnership project
Despite construction delays due to COVID-19, progress has
been made along the entire length of the project. This includes
the construction of a new North Shore bridge using the counterweight launching methodology.
In 2002, the project reached two important milestones in
terms of construction for the project: Full completion of the
construction of the 16-km-aerial structure for the REM by the
two launching gantries and the digging with the tunnel-boring
machine (TBM) of the tunnel to the airport (2.5-kms); in July,
a REM car crossed the Champlain bridge for the first time; a
couple weeks before this major milestone, full electrification of
the segment between the South Shore and Central Station was
completed.
REM/NouvLR, Thierry DuBois
2022 Rank: 11
Location: Montreal, Que.
Owner: CDPQ Infra
Contractor:
• EPC contract: Groupe NouvLR— SNC Lavalin Grands Projets
Inc.; Dragados Canada Inc.; Groupe Aecon Québec Ltée;
Pomerleau Inc.; EBC Inc.
• RSSOM Contract: Groupe des Partenaires pour la Mobilité
des Montréalais—Alstom Transport Canada Inc.; SNC-Lavalin
O&M Inc.
• Conception: SNC Lavalin Inc.; Aecom Consultants Inc.
Engineer: CIMA+; Hatch; Parsons (consulting)
Design: Lemay; Bisson Fortin; Perkins+Will; Provencher Roy
Other Key Players: Hanscomb (advisory services for design,
engineering, and costing); EXP (feasibility and diligence
studies); WSP (geotechnical); Aon (risk advisor); GHD
(geotechnical/testing); INTECH Risk Management; Deloitte
(due diligence advisor); Englobe; Canam Group; Jacobs
(independent certifier)
Legal: Norton Rose Fulbright (advising CDPQ Infra); Lavery de
Billy (advising CDPQ Infra); Borden Ladner Gervais (advised
NouvLR); Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg (advised PMM);
Stein Monast (advised the Quebec Government); Fasken
Martineau DuMoulin (advisor for ARTM)
Funding: Public-Private
• CDPQ Infra - $3.63 billion
• Government of Quebec - $1.28 billion
• Government of Canada
(through the Canada Infrastructure Bank) - $1.28 billion
• Hydro Quebec - $295 million