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GO Expansion—Off-Corridor
$619 MILLION
The Off-Corridor Works package is one of the
three packages of work through which the GO Rail
Expansion program is being delivered. The Existing
Stations Renovations project forms the majority
of the Off-Corridor Works package and will involve
improvements at existing multi-modal stations
along the Lakeshore West, Milton, Barrie, Kitchener, Lakeshore East, Stouffville, and Richmond Hill
GO Rail Corridors. The comprehensive goal of the
Off-Corridor program is to improve multi-modal
station access across GO Transit to support forecasted ridership growth, as well as provide more
local service integration with subways, streetcars,
LRTs, buses, etc.
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2024 Rank: 89
Location: Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area, Ont.
Owner: Metrolinx
Concept Design: 4TRANSIT JV (WSP/Parsons/
Hatch) (WSP:technical advisory work and detailed
station design as part of JV)
Other Key Players: Parsons (systems work); Golder
(WSP) (geotechnical services); Deloitte, Accenture
(project manager); AECOM (engineer-technical);
Wood (WSP) (environmental engineer); ArcadisIBI Group; LEA Consulting (engineer-consulting &
structural); R.V. Anderson Associates Ltd.; Turner
& Townsend (project controls); E.S. Fox; Stantec
(design services); AGAT Labs; A.W. Hooker Associates
Ltd. (cost consultant); TULLOCH; Egis; GHD
(engineer-design); KPMG
Legal: Borden Ladner Gervais (for the owner);
Dentons; Torys
Funding: Public
Substantial Completion: 2025
HYDROELECTRIC
Rapide-Blanc Generating Station
Refurbishment Project
$613 MILLION
2024 Rank: 90
Location: Rapide-Blanc, Que.
Owner: Hydro-Québec
Contractor: Voith (installation of new turbines,
generators, digital governors & the refurbishment of
embedded turbine components)
Engineer: WSP (design); EXP (design); AECOM
Other Key Players: Englobe; HKA (management
consultant)
Funding: Public
Substantial Completion: 2026
HYDRO-QUÉBEC
The Rapide-Blanc generation station is located
on the Saint-Maurice River, 66 kilometres north of La
Tuque, Québec. The station’s initial construction began
in 1930 and was completed in 1934. All of the six units
will be replaced. Four of the existing turbines were
installed in 1934, which means by the time the project
is complete those units will have been in service for 90
years. The contract for the new units calls for a complete
replacement of removable turbine and generator parts,
the refurbishment of all embedded components and
installation of digitally controlled governor units. The new
units will also be more efficient and allow production of
approximately 10 per cent more energy with the same
amount of water. The components will be designed to
last at least 70 years.
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Atlantic Science
Enterprise Centre
$600 MILLION
The Atlantic Science Enterprise Centre is being built
in three phases to allow for the continued use of the existing building during construction. The site preparation
work is currently underway as part of the first phase. The
construction of the new science wing to the north of the
existing building began in 2024. The final phase, sched78
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uled to start in 2027, will see scientists moving into
the newly built science wing, while the redevelopment
of the Gulf Fisheries Centre and construction of the
remainder of the centre begins. This step will include
carefully rebuilding the façade to commemorate the
history of the original building.
Location: Moncton, N.B.
Owner: Government of Canada
Project Deliver: Public Services and Procurement
Canada
Design: Diamond Schmitt Architects
Construction Management: Pomerleau
Other Key Players: EXP; Salas O’Brien (engineering
consultants)
Funding: Public
Substantial Completion: 2032
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