TOP100 2023 Report - Report - Page 32
2023
12 Gordie Howe International Bridge $5.7 billion
2022 Rank: 12
Location: Windsor, Ont. to Detroit, Mich.
Owner: Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority (WDBA)
Project/Construction Manager: Deloitte
DBFOM Team: Bridging North America—ACS Infrastructure
Canada Inc.; Fluor Canada Ltd.; Aecon Concessions; RBC
Dominion Securities Inc.; AECOM; Carlos Fernandez Casado
S.L/FHECOR Ingenieros Consultores, S.A.; Moriyama and
Teshima Architects; Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects LLP;
Dragados Canada Inc.; Aecon Infrastructure Management Inc.;
Turner Construction Company; Aecon O&M, a division of Aecon Construction Group Inc.; DBI Services, LLC; URS Federal
Services, Inc. (AECOM)
Engineer: Parsons (owner’s engineer)
Other Key Players: EY (advising team); Golder-a WSP
company (geotech./foundation engineering); Hanscomb
(owner’s cost consultant and special advisor); Kasian (PDC
team); LeighFisher (lender’s technical advisor); INTECH
Risk Management (insurance advisor); CIMA+ (transmission
relocation design); WSP (environmental services); Aon (risk
advisor); Parsons (bridge technical advisor); Tetra Tech; Rider
Levett Bucknall; A.W. Hooker Associates Ltd. (cost consultant);
Canam Group; Englobe; EXP (engineering and testing
services); Wood-a WSP company (materials tester)
Supplier: Entro (signage and wayfinding)
Legal: Fasken Martineau DuMoulin (transaction advisor);
Blake, Cassels & Graydon (legal advisor to the proponent)
Funding: P3
Substantial Completion: 2024
This crossing is the largest and most ambitious binational border infrastructure project along the Canada–United States border. It includes a new six-lane bridge across the Detroit River,
associated border inspection plazas, and connections to the
freeway systems in Ontario and Michigan. This project will provide a new alternative crossing for this trade corridor.
The Canada-Michigan Crossing Agreement, signed in June
2012 by Canada and Michigan, provided a framework for the
construction, financing, operation, and maintenance of the new
publicly owned bridge. The agreement called for the establishment of both a crossing authority, known as the WDBA, to deliver,
procure, and fund the project through a P3 and an international
authority to oversee the project procurement and compliance
with the agreement.
Work on all four components of the project is being conducted simultaneously: Canada and U.S. Points of Entry, the
Michigan I-75 Interchange, and the bridge itself. Current work
including earthworks and utility locations at the Points of Entry
and the start of construction on the tower footings.
Activity over the past year has focused on the tower
construction on both sides of the border. At present, the two
towers (note that towers are being built on land) have reached
approximately 150 metres. Once complete, the towers will
reach 220 metres in height. Work continues on the other
components of the project, the Canadian and US Ports of Entry
and the Michigan Interchange. Construction is well underway
at the ports of entry, including the primary inspection lanes and
toll booth canopies in Canada and the Secondary inspection
building on the U.S. side.
13 Hurontario LRT $5.632 billion
2022 Rank: 13
Location: Mississauga and Brampton, Ont.
Owner: Metrolinx
Project Agent: Infrastructure Ontario
DBFOM Team: Mobilinx Hurontario General Partnership
Applicant Lead: John Laing, Astaldi, Hitachi, Transdev, Amico
Concessions, Salini Impregilo
Construction: Astaldi, Hitachi, Amico, Bot, Salini Impregilo
Design: IBI Group, Hitachi, Morrison Hershfield, Arcadis,
Daoust Lestage, EXP
Operation Maintenance & Rehabilitation Provider: Transdev,
Hitachi, Astaldi, Salini Impregilo
Financial Advisor: National Bank, HSBC
Engineer: SNC-Lavalin (project lead); Steer Davies Gleave
(preliminary engineering); Stantec (design); WSP (consulting)
Other Key Players: DIALOG (urban design); Dufferin
Construction; Golder-a WSP company (preliminary
geotechnical services); Hanscomb (preliminary design
engineer’s cost consultant); Hatch; LEA Group (ITS); Aon
(owner advisor and construction insurance broker); AECOM
(owner’s representative/technical advisor); EY (financial and
transaction advisory); Morrison Hershfield (transit O&M
advisors); AGAT Labs; Comtech (program/project consulting);
DECAST; RLB; Jacobs (program mgmt.); INTECH Risk
Management; Arcadis (environmental services); Deloitte
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(financial advisor); Englobe; HKA; INFRATA (managing
consultant)
Supplier: DECAST (precast infrastructure)
Legal: Borden Ladner Gervais (legal advisor); Torys (acted for
lender); McMillan LLP (for the proponent)
Funding: Public
Substantial Completion: 2024
The Hurontario Light Rail Transit (LRT) project will bring
18 kilometres of fast, reliable, rapid transit to the cities of
Mississauga and Brampton along the Hurontario corridor. New,
modern light rail vehicles will travel in a dedicated right-of-way
and serve 19 stops with connections to GO Transit’s Milton and
Lakeshore West rail lines, Mississauga MiWay, Brampton Züm,
and the Mississauga Transitway BRT. Funded through a $1.4
billion commitment from the Province of Ontario, the Hurontario
LRT is a signature project of the Moving Ontario Forward plan.
Early works on the Hurontario LRT project continue, with
utility relocations including new watermains, as well as road
widening and bus platform relocations—all tasks to prepare for
rail and station construction now visible. Plus, excavation for
the ‘push box’ at QEW and Port Credit locations is completed.
In addition, the operations, maintenance and storage facility
under construction is making progress; and prep work for the
installation of track is now well underway beside the facility.
