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BRIDGE
Gordie Howe
International Bridge
$5.7 BILLION
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 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.
Activity over the past year has focused on completion of the towers on both sides
of the border along with construction of the back span and deck of the bridge. Now
complete, the towers stand at 220 metres in height. Work continues on the other
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2023 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 & 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); Arcadis-IBI Group (design); Morrison
Hershfield; COWI (design)
Other Key Players: EY (advising team); Golder-a WSP company (geotechnical
and 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 E&I (WSP)
(materials tester); Mulvey & Banani; HKA (management consultant)
Supplier: Entro (signage and wayfinding); Victaulic
Legal: Fasken Martineau DuMoulin (transaction advisor); Blake, Cassels & Graydon
(legal advisor to the proponent); Dentons; Borden Ladner Gervais
Funding: P3
Substantial Completion: 2024
components of the project including, the Canadian and U.S. Ports of Entry and
the Michigan Interchange.
LRT
Hazel McCallion
(Hurontario) LRT
$5.6 BILLION
The Hurontario Light Rail Transit (LRT) project will bring 18 kms 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.
Works on the Hazel McCallion LRT project continue, with over 20 kms of watermain,
sanitary and stormwater systems installed, 231 new hydro poles installed, 22,000
linear metres of underground telecom relocations installed and 42,000 metres of
guideway track delivered to the site, as of end of September 2023.
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2023 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: Arcadis-IBI Group, Hitachi, Morrison Hershfield, Daoust Lestage, EXP
Operation Maintenance & Rehabilitation Provider: Transdev, Hitachi, Astaldi, Salini
Impregilo
Financial Advisor: National Bank, HSBC
Engineer: AtkinsRéalis (project lead); Steer Davies Gleave (preliminary
engineering); Stantec (design); WSP (consulting engineering services); SEMP Ltd.
(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; Deloitte (financial advisor); Englobe; HKA;
INFRATA (managing consultant); GFL (soil management); LEA Consulting (engineerplanning & structural); Parsons (consulting engineer); Turner & Townsend (cost
management); E.S. Fox
Supplier: DECAST (precast infrastructure)
Legal: Borden Ladner Gervais (legal advisor); Torys (acted for lender); McMillan
LLP (for the proponent); Dentons
Funding: Public
Substantial Completion: 2024
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