TOP100 2026 Report - Report - Page 70
The Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI) is a federal environmental
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. The PHAI has two projects: the Port Hope Project and the
Port Granby Project. The Port Hope Project involves the construction of
an engineered above ground 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.
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2025 Rank: 64
Location: Port Hope/Clarington, Ont.
Owner: Atomic Energy Canada Ltd./Natural Resources Canada
Project/Construction Manager: Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL)
Contractor: Wood-CB&I Joint Venture; ECC/Quantum Murray Limited Partnership; Wood
(WSP); Maple Reinders; Kenaidan Contracting Ltd.; Northwind Portage; Milestone Environmental; WSP; Graham
Engineer: GHD/MMM Joint Venture; AECOM; WSP; Wood E&I (WSP)
Environmental Services: Golder (WSP) (contamination investigation/remediation; Phase I ESA;
geotechnical services); Arcadis; Dillon Consulting; EXP (environmental consulting); Wood (WSP) (geotechnical studies)
Other Key Players: Hanscomb (owner’s preliminary design stage cost consultant and special
advisor); Tetra Tech; E.S. Fox; CIMA+; Aon (risk advisor); Bird Construction; Turner & Townsend
(cost consultant)
Financiers & Banks: Natural Resources Canada
Legal: Osler; Torys (acted for the lender)
Funding: Public
Substantial Completion: 2026
CNL
Port Hope
Area Initiative
$1.3 BILLION
HEALTHCARE
Gilgan Family
Queensway Health Centre
$1.3 BILLION
The 600,000-square-feet Gilgan Family
Queensway Health Centre will include a new
patient tower, including a modern nine-story facility with over 350 beds and fully private patient
rooms to ensure privacy and enhance infection
prevention control. The expanded space will also
allow TPH to connect more people to specialized
care, including complex continuing care and
rehabilitation services. Site preparation work
began in February 2024 with a groundbreaking
held in April.
2025 Rank: 65
Location: Etobicoke, Ont.
Owner: Trillium Health Partners
Procurement Agent: Infrastructure Ontario
DBF Contract: EllisDon Corporation
Consultants: Stantec Architecture Limited (prime
consulting services); Colliers Project Leaders
(procurement services); H.H. Angus & Associates
Limited Consulting Engineers (ICAT systems
consultant)
Other Key Players: Accenture (project manager);
Hanscomb (cost consultant); Aon (risk advisor)
Legal: Gowling WLG; Borden Ladner Gervais (for the
owner)
Funding: P3
Substantial Completion: 2029
TRILLIUM HEALTH PARTNERS
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REMEDIATION
NEW
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HYDROELECTRIC
La Trenche Generating
Station Refurbishment
$1.25 BILLION
Location: La Tuque, Que.
Owner: Hydro-Québec
Funding: Public
Substantial Completion: 2035
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HYDRO-QUEBEC
Hydro-Québec’s modernization work on the Trenche generating
station on the Saint-Maurice River aims to extend the life of this
facility, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2025. Replacing
the six turbine-generator units with state-of-the-art models will also
increase the plant’s installed capacity by approximately 15 per cent,
from 302 to 350 megawatts, without changing the flow of the river. The
rehabilitation is a major project requiring two years of preparatory work.
This began in January 2025 and continue until 2027. The turbine-alternator units will be replaced at a rate of one per year from 2027 to
2033, at the same time as work will be carried out on the upstream
and downstream decks.
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