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INDUSTRY>NEWS Work starts on $5.5B Scarborough Subway Extension after years of tense debate
Ford and other officials marked the official start of construction on the project June 23
After more than a decade of study, raucous and repeated Toronto City Council clashes, and several provincial government interjections, construction has started on the Scarborough Subway Extension. Following preparatory work this spring, the build team, headed by Strabag, has begun construction on the launch shaft that will set tunnel boring machines to work beneath Scarborough. Premier Doug Ford, Mayor John Tory and other officials were on-hand for the official groundbreaking for the three-stop extension to the Toronto subway’s Line 2
June 23. Nearly 10 years ago, Ford was among the city councillors weighing Scarborough transit options ranging from the three-stop subway, single-stop subway and a replacement light rail line. “This long overdue project will create thousands of jobs, significantly increase ridership capacity and cut down daily travel times for more than a hundred thousand Scarborough commuters,” Ford said in a release, noting it is one of four “priority” projects the Ontario government is pushing forward. Provincial agencies Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx awarded the Strabag
team a $757.1 million fixed-price contract for the 7.8 kilometres of tunnelling work this May. The TBMs are scheduled to be launched next year. Unbundled from the tunnelling component of the project, further contracts for station work, rolling stock and other aspects of the $5.5 billion extension will be awarded later. Overall, the subway extension is expected to create up to 3,000 jobs per year during construction. According to Metroilnx, crews are aiming to have the line ready for passenger service by 2029-2030.
Amico, EllisDon and PCL teams prequalified for new Niagara Falls, Ont. hospital
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10 / AUGUST 2021
Three construction teams have been prequalified to bid on an upcoming hospital project in southeastern Ontario expected to cost more than $1 billion. Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Niagara Health have signed off on the credentials of consortia that include Amico, EllisDon and PCL, and plan to issue a request for proposals for the design, build, finance and maintain project this fall. Plans for the greenfield South Niagara Hospital at Biggar and Montrose roads in Niagara Falls, Ont. include approximately 1.2 million sq. ft. of floor space with 469 patients beds and eight operating suites, among other services. The precise cost of the hospital will not be available until the contract is awarded, but IO lists the project as worth more than $1 billion in its latest P3 Market Update. The procurement agency anticipates picking a winning bidder in late 2022. Construction on the new health care site will take roughly four years once crews break ground.
