2025 Top 50 Water Projects Report - Report - Page 20
TOP 50 WATER PROJECTS 2025
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Port Lands Flood Protection and
Enabling Infrastructure • $1.42 billion
THE PORT LANDS Flood Protection and Enabling Infrastructure
project is the redevelopment of one of the largest portions of underdeveloped land in a major urban core in North America. Located along
the shore of Lake Ontario southeast of Toronto’s downtown core, the
project will include substantial soil remediation, a new mouth for the
Don River, and critical infrastructure for flood resilience to unlock the
325-hectare site for residential and commercial development. •
2024 Rank: 8
Location: Toronto, Ont.
Owner: City of Toronto
Project Manager: Waterfront Toronto; City of
Toronto
Construction Manager: EllisDon
Contractor: Colliers Project Leaders;
Arcadis-IBI Group; HDR; INTECH (risk advisor);
Altus; Geosyntec; Stantec; Entuitive; Grimshaw;
Dillon; Graham Construction
Engineer: Wood (WSP) (consulting/environmental & geotechnical studies); Cherubini Metal
Works Ltd.; DTAH; Planmac; Jacobs; LEA Consulting (engineer-consulting)
Architect: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
Inc. (Port Lands Estuary Plan)
Environmental Services: Inter昀氀uve; GHD; GFL;
Englobe; Geo-Solutions; EXP
Other Key Players: SBP; Golder (WSP)
(geotechnical services/roads & municipal
infrastructure); E.S. Fox; A.W. Hooker Associates
Ltd. (cost consultant); Hanscomb; HRI (heritage
contractor); Earth Boring Co. Ltd.; Priestly
Demolition Inc.; Accenture (risk advisor); R.V.
Anderson Associates Ltd.; Mulvey & Banani;
Montrose Environmental (environmental specialists); Terrapex (consulting engineer); TULLOCH;
EY (management consultant)
Supplier: DECAST
Legal: Borden Ladner Gervais (Waterfront
Toronto); Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP
Funding: Public
Substantial Completion: 2025
AGRICULTURE
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MD of Acadia and Special Areas
Irrigation Project • $1.3B
Project Manager: Associated Engineering
Key Players: Canada Infrastructure Bank, Government of Alberta, Municipal District of Acadia
No. 34, Special Areas Board
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THE MD of Acadia & Special Areas Irrigation
Project is an irrigation expansion project
in east-central Alberta that will transition
108,000 acres from dryland farming to
irrigated farming and support the future
growth of Canada’s agriculture sector.
The project is being developed in
partnership with all levels of government
including the Government of Canada
through the Canada Infrastructure Bank,
the Government of Alberta, Municipal District of Acadia No. 34, and the Special Areas
Board. The project partners are investing
$7 million to continue Phase II of the planning, including completion of preliminary
engineering design, environmental and
regulatory considerations, and potential
昀椀nancing options. •
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