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52 Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project $1.377 billion
2022 Rank: 53
Location: New Westminster and Surrey, B.C.
Owner: Province of British Columbia (The Transportation
Investment Corporation is leading the delivery of the
project on behalf of the Ministry of Transportation and
Infrastructure)
Owner’s Team: TI Corp., Charter PDI, WSP, R.F. Binnie, Northwest Hydraulic Consultants, Tetra Tech, TYLin, Archer CRM
Joint Venture Design Team: Leonhardt, Andrä and Partner
(LAP), EXP, Thurber Engineering, GNEC, VIA Architecture,
Hatch
DBF Team: Fraser Crossing Partners
• Proponent: Acciona Infrastructure Canada Inc. and Aecon
Construction Group Inc.
• Design-build contractor: Acciona Infrastructure Canada Inc.
and Aecon Constructors
• Long-span bridge design contractor: Leonhardt, Andrä und
Partner Beratende Ingenieure VBI AG, Hatch, EXP Services
Inc., Acciona Infrastructure Canada Inc.
Engineer: Parsons (Owner’s Engineer); Hatch; Tetra Tech
(environmental); WSP (owner’s engineer)
Other Key Players: Golder-a WSP company; Morrison
Hershfield (engineering services); Wood-a WSP company
(materials tester); Deloitte (commercial advisor); Hemmera;
Hanscomb (cost consultant); McElhanney, G. Ho Engineering
Consultants (road safety audits)
Legal: Borden Ladner Gervais; McMillan LLP (for the lender)
Funding: Public
Substantial Completion: 2024 (new bridge); 2026
(demolition of old bridge)
In February of 2018, the Government of British Columbia
announced its plans to replace the Pattullo Bridge, a key crossing
between Surrey and New Westminster. Built in 1937, the bridge
is one of the oldest in the Metro Vancouver area and was built
for a 50-year lifespan in May 2019, the project was granted an
environmental assessment certificate. The Acciona/Aecon
joint venture team was selected as the preferred proponent in
December 2019, with the contract awarded in February 2020.
The new four lane crossing is being built to modern safety
standards and features wider lanes to better accommodate
passenger and commercial vehicles, a centre median barrier,
dedicated multi-use pathways for walking and cycling that are
separated from traffic on both sides of the bridge and is designed
to accommodate potential future expansion to six lanes. The
new bridge will be located just upstream and northeast of
the existing bridge and will include new on and off ramps to
connect the new bridge with the existing road network. The
existing bridge will remain in use until the new bridge is open
to traffic, then it will be safely demolished. Major construction
is underway. In-river, construction is underway on the bridge
tower, and work is also underway to build the second in-river
foundationIn New Westminster and Surrey, bridge foundation
construction, utility relocations and roadworks are underway.
53 Port Hope Area Initiative $1.28 billion
2022 Rank: 54
Location: Port Hope and Clarington, Ont.
Owner: Atomic Energy Canada Ltd., Natural Resources Canada
Project/Construction Manager: Canadian Nuclear Laboratories
Contractor: Wood-CB&I Joint Venture; ECC/Quantum Murray
Limited Partnership; Wood-a WSP company; Maple Reinders;
Kenaidan Contracting Ltd.; Northwind Portage; Milestone
Environmental; WSP; Graham
Engineer: GHD/MMM Joint Venture; AECOM; WSP; Wood
Environmental Services: : Golder-a WSP company
(contamination investigation/remediation; Phase I ESA;
geotechnical); Phase I ESA; geotechnical); Arcadis Canada;
Dillon Consulting
Other Key Players: Hanscomb (owner’s preliminary design
stage cost consultant and special advisor); Arcadis (excavation
and waste removal); Tetra Tech; SNC-Lavalin; Colliers Project
Leaders; CIMA+; Aon (risk advisor)
Financiers/Banks: Natural Resources Canada
Legal: Osler; Torys (acted for the lender)
Funding: Public
• Federal: Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.: $1.28 billion
Substantial Completion: Port Granby Project—2022; Port Hope
Project—2025
The Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI) is a federal environmen-
tal clean-up program. Its mandate is the remediation and local,
long-term, safe management of approximately 1.7 million cubic
metres of historic low-level radioactive waste in the municipalities of Port Hope and Clarington in southern Ontario. The historic
waste resulted from the radium and uranium refining operations
of the former Crown corporation, Eldorado Nuclear Limited, and
its private sector predecessors, which operated until 1988.
The PHAI has two projects: the Port Hope Project and the Port
Granby Project.
The Port Hope Project involves the construction of an
engineered aboveground mound and supporting infrastructure
for the safe, long-term management of approximately 1.2 million
cubic metres of historic low-level radioactive waste, cleanup of
the waste from various major sites and small-scale sites in Port
Hope and transportation of the waste to a new long-term waste
management facility (LTWMF) currently under construction. After
the facility is capped and closed, anticipated to be in 2025, ongoing
maintenance and monitoring will continue for many years.
May 2022 marked the completion of the Port Granby Project,
which involved the safe excavation and transfer of low-level
radioactive waste from an unstable site to a newly constructed
waste management facility.
Over 1.3 million tonnes of waste excavated from the Lake Ontario shoreline is now safely stored in the engineered, aboveground storage mound that was capped and closed in fall 2021.
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