TOP100 2023 Report - Report - Page 44
2023
23 Hamilton LRT $3.4 billion
2022 Rank: 24
Location: Hamilton, Ont.
Owner: Metrolinx
Procurement Agent: Infrastructure Ontario
Funding: Public
• Federal: $1.7 billion
• Provincial: $1.7 billion
Other Key Players: Wood-a WSP company (consulting engineer)
Substantial Completion: 2025
ment—the Request for Qualifications for bidders—on the main
construction contract is expected to start this year as well.
In the coming years, these properties will be required for
station stops, infrastructure, and widening to accommodate the
future LRT right of way. In the short term, demolition sites will
be restored, secured with fencing, and monitored by security
contractors.
Metrolinx
In September 2021, Hamilton City Council voted to reinitiate
the project after it was previously cancelled by the province in
2019 due to rising costs. The LRT, as proposed, would bring 14
kilometres of rapid transit to Ontario’s fifth-largest city. Once
complete, the new LRT line will connect McMaster University in the west to Eastgate in the East, with 17 stops planned
on the route. Demolition of Metrolinx-owned properties along
the Hamilton LRT route began in the Spring of 2022, along with
early construction works for utility relocations and procure-
24 Don River and Central Waterfront & Connected Projects $3 billion
2022 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 (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
(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)
Funding: Public
Other Key Players: Wood-a WSP company (environmental
engineer/geotechnical studies); Golder- a WSP company
(geotechnical services)
Substantial Completion: 2038
44 ReNew Canada
Hatch
This project is a 25-year program that will improve water quality in Toronto’s Lower Don River, Taylor-Massey Creek and the
Inner Harbour. 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. Construction began in 2018 and the projected completion is 2038.
The program is made up of several individual projects that
will work together, including the Don River and Central Waterfront Wet Weather Flow System, the Ashbridges Bay Treatment
Plant (ABTP) Integrated Pumping Station, ABTP Ultra-Violet
(UV) Disinfection Facility, ABTP Landform and high-rate treatment facility, and the ABTP Outfall. Major milestones in 2022
include the construction of the Coxwell Bypass Tunnel and the
ABTP Outfall. In July 2022, the tunnel boring machine working
on the Coxwell Bypass Tunnel broke through to create a 6.3 m
diameter, 10.4 km long tunnel. As of September 2022, the project is 80 per cent complete and expected to finish in early 2024.
Similarly, the tunnel boring machine for the outfall project has
completed its full tunnel length, bringing the project toward 75
per cent completion. Other projects at the Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant are also well underway, including the Ashbridges
Bay Landform Project, a joint initiative between the City and the
Toronto Region Conservation Authority (TRCA), the Integrated
Pumping Station and the UV Disinfection Facility.
