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2025 Rank: 24
Location: Hamilton, Ont.
Owner: Metrolinx
Procurement Agent: Infrastructure Ontario
Other Key Players: AECOM (consulting engineer); WSP
(technical advisory, design and geotechnical services; Wood
(WSP) (consulting engineer/geotechnical studies); Accenture
(project manager); Hatch; Turner & Townsend (project controls/
estimating); Dillon Consulting (design engineer); AGAT Labs
(environmental assessment); Egis; INTECH (risk advisor); KPMG
Legal: Borden Ladner Gervais (for the owner)
Funding: Public
Federal: $1.7 billion
Provincial: $1.7 billion
Substantial Completion: TBD
The Hamilton LRT project, as proposed, would bring
14 kilometres of rapid transit to Ontario’s fifth-largest
city, connecting McMaster University in the west to Eastgate in the East, with 17 stops planned on the route. In
November, 2024 the Province issued an RFQ for the Civil
Works and Utility Relocations contract to lead the construction of most civil work, including utility relocations,
roads, structures, grade separations, bridges, sidewalks
and traffic control signals along the alignment.
WATER/WASTEWATER
Don River and Central
Waterfront & Connected Projects
$3 BILLION
Toronto is embarking on the largest and most significant stormwater management program in the city’s history. This program will greatly improve the water
quality in the Lower Don River, Taylor-Massey Creek and along Toronto’s Inner
Harbour by keeping combined sewer overflows out of our waterways by upgrading
technology and increasing the system’s capacity to capture, transport and treat
them. The project is comprised of an integrated system of tunnels, storage shafts,
connections, an integrated pumping station, a high-rate treatment facility, a
real-time control system and wastewater treatment plant upgrades.
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PUBLIC SPACES
Energy Services Acquisition
Program’s Energy Service Modernization
$3 BILLION
Within the National Capital Region (NCR), Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) is responsible for heating 80 buildings and cooling
67 buildings. As part of PSPC’s activities, the Energy Services Acquisition
Program was established in 2009 to explore new business models for the
provision of energy services in the NCR. The modernization project is looking
for an energy services solution for PSPC’s five central heating and cooling
plants (CHCP) and their associated distribution networks within the NCR. By
2027, the entire District Energy System will be modernized and converted
from an energy-intensive and high-polluting steam system to a state-of-theart low-temperature hot-water system, reducing greenhouse gas emissions
from heating and cooling operations by an estimated 92 per cent.
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2025 Rank: 25
Location: Toronto, Ont.
Owner: City of Toronto
Don River and Central Waterfront Wet Weather Flow System (DR&CW WWF
System): Coxwell bypass (stage 1): Black & Veatch Canada in association with R.V.
Anderson Associates Limited (consultants); North Tunnel Constructors (contractor) •
Inner Harbour West Tunnel: Hatch/AECOM (consultant)
Mid-Toronto-Interceptor (MTI) Real-Time Control: Tetra Tech (consultant)
Integrated Pumping Station (IPS): Black & Veatch Canada in association with R.V.
Anderson Associates Ltd. (consultants); Strabag Canada (contractor-contract 2)
Ashbridges Bay Landform Project: Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
(TRCA) with Shoreplan Engineering (designer); TRCA (constructor of landform)
UV (Ultraviolet) Disinfection Facility: AECOM (consultants); Graham (contractor)
Outfall: Hatch, Jacobs and Baird (consultants); (SAJV) Southland Astaldi Joint
Venture (contractor)
Other Key Players: Wood (WSP) (environmental engineer/geotechnical studies);
Golder (WSP) (geotechnical services); (risk assessment); LEA Consulting (engineerplanning); E.S. Fox; Arup (engineer)
Legal: Stikeman Elliott LLP (advisor)
Funding: Public
Substantial Completion: 2038
CITY OF TORONTO
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METROLINX
Hamilton LRT
$3.4 BILLION
RENEW CANADA – TOP100 2026
2025 Rank: 26
Location: Ottawa, Ont.
Owner: Government of Canada
DBFOM Team: Innovate Energy—Black & McDonald
Capital Limited; Black & McDonald Limited; ENGIE
Services Inc.; PCL Constructors Canada Inc.; PCL
Investments Canada Inc.; BBB Architects Ottawa, Golder
(WSP) (design work)
Other Key Players: EY (oversight advisor); WSP
(engineering services); Aon (risk advisor); Tiree/
Colliers Project Leaders (project management &
business consulting services); Turner & Townsend (cost
management)
Legal: Borden Ladner Gervais, Norton Rose Fulbright
(advisor to project owner)
Funding: Public
Substantial Completion: 2027
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