TOP100 2025 Report - Report - Page 68
Infrastructure Ontario is working with the
Ministry of the Solicitor General to deliver a
new Thunder Bay Correctional Complex, to
replace the city’s existing jail and correctional
centre. The project will result in development
of a 345 bed, multi-purpose correctional facility. This project supports the ministry’s strategy
of replacing aging institutions to address
health, safety and security issues, including efficiencies of design, technology and space. The
correctional complex will be designed to meet
the Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design (LEED) Silver certification.
2024 Rank: 59
Location: Thunder Bay, Ont.
Owner: Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General
Procurement/Project Manager: Infrastructure Ontario
DBFM Team: EllisDon Infrastructure
Developer: EllisDon Capital Inc.
Design-Builder: EllisDon Corporation
Design Team: Zeidler Architecture Inc., DLR Group Inc.; NORR Architects &
Engineers
Facilities Management: EllisDon Facilities Services Inc.
Financial Advisor: EllisDon Capital Inc.
Other Key Players: E.S. Fox; A.W. Hooker Associates Ltd. (cost consultant);
Engineering Harmonics (AV planning, design and conformance consultant for
Infrastructure Ontario); EXP (structural engineer); Hanscomb (cost consultant);
Mulvey & Banani; Bird Construction; EY (risk advisor); TULLOCH; Aon, INTECH (risk
advisor); H.H. Angus & Associates Limited Consulting Engineers (engineer-design)
Legal: Stikeman Elliott LLP
Funding: P3
Substantial Completion: 2026
ELLISDON
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SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Thunder Bay
Correctional Complex
$1.2 BILLION
NEW
The Waasigan Transmission Line will be a new
double-circuit 230 kilovolt transmission line between Lakehead Transformer Station (TS) in the
Municipality of Shuniah and Mackenzie TS in the
Town of Atikokan, and a new single-circuit 230
kilovolt transmission line between Mackenzie TS
and Dryden TS in the City of Dryden. Construction
began in 2024 with the first phase from Shuniah
to Atikokan in-service at the end of 2025 and
the second phase from Atikokan to Dryden
in-service by the end of 2027.
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Location: Municipality of Shuniah to
City of Dryden, Ont.
Owner: Hydro One Inc.
Engineering, Procurement and Construction
Partner: Valard Construction LP
Other Key Players: Chi Mino Ozhitoowin
(subcontracted to Valard)
Funding: Public
Substantial Completion: 2027
HYDRO ONE
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TRANSMISSION
Waasigan Transmission Line
$1.2 BILLION
MILITARY
CFB Esquimalt A/B Jetty
Recapitalization Project
$1.1 BILLION
The aim of the A/B Jetty project is to demolish and replace the old A and B
jetties at CFB Esquimalt’s Dockyard, which were constructed during World War II. The
A/B Jetty project supports Canada’s National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy,
which is delivering modern ships to the Royal Canadian Navy over the next 30
years. The new fully integrated A/B Jetty facility will be home to several of these
Canadian-built vessels, including the new Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ship and Joint
Support Ship, and in due course the future Canadian Surface Combatant ships. The
implementation of this $1.1 billion project has been advancing steadily over the
past decade and it currently involves three primary contracts: one for the design
and engineering work of the new B Jetty, one for the design and engineering work of
the new A Jetty and one for the construction of new jetty facilities.
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2024 Rank: 60
Location: Esquimalt, B.C.
Owner/Project Manager: Department of National Defence
Contractor: Pomerleau (B Jetty construction)
Project Contract Management: Defence Construction Canada
Engineer: Stantec, Wood (WSP) (design)
Other Key Players: Hanscomb (design engineer’s cost consultant
for A Jetty); Advicas (design engineer’s cost consultant for B Jetty);
Golder (WSP) (geotechnical studies/environmental engineering);
Anchor QAE (environmental advisor); Hemmera (environmental);
HDR (risk advisor); WSP (commissioning agent); Ruskin/CDI, RIC Power,
Trotter & Morton, Black & McDonald (subcontractors to Pomerleau);
Englobe; EY (management consultant); McElhanney; GeoVerra (site surveyor);
Turner & Townsend (cost consultant)
Funding: Public
Substantial Completion: (B Jetty) 2024
(A Jetty) 2029
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