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Whitby (East Rail) Maintenance Facility

Location:
Whitby, Ontario
Project Type:
DBFM - Design Build Finance Maintain
Infrastructure Type:
Transit
Contract Value:
$859.2 million
Estimated Value for Money:
$144.3 million

About the Project

The new maintenance facility provides maintenance, repair, and additional storage for GO Trains and support GO Transit's planned service expansions.    

  • The Whitby (East Rail) Maintenance Facility (ERMF) is a strategic and essential asset for GO Transit's planned service expansions. The facility is a critical enabling facility for expanded GO service to increase ridership and revenue, and to support the anticipated population growth in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.
  • The facility will significantly reduce operational risks for GO Transit. With only one major rail maintenance facility, any operational issues at the Willowbrook facility or along the corridor connecting the Willowbrook facility to other corridors will impact all rail service. A second rail maintenance facility allows GO Transit to service new rolling stock, and provide operational flexibility under emergency situations to ensure reliable transit service.
  • The facility is LEED Gold Certified and includes approximately 500,000 square feet of infrastructure to meet GO Transit's operational requirements.

Status:

  • Request for Qualifications
    Sep 20, 2012
  • Short-list Bidders Selected
    Feb 21, 2013
  • Request for Proposals
    Jun 27, 2014
  • Winning Bidder Selected
    Mar 27, 2015
  • Construction Begins
    Mar 27, 2015
  • Construction Ends
    Mar 14, 2018

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Winning Bidder

Plenary Infrastructure ERMF is a consortium of Plenary Group (Canada) Ltd., Kiewit Canada Development Corp. and Bird Capital Limited Partnership (Developer); Bird Design-Build Construction Inc., Peter Kiewit Infrastructure Co. (Construction); Stantec Consulting, Arup Canada Inc. (Design); Honeywell Limited, Toronto Terminals Railway (Facilities Management); TD Bank, Bank of Montreal (Financial Advisor)

Features

The facility:

  • Is designed to accommodate future electrification and be approximately 500,000 square feet, including shops, a maintenance facility, as well as offices and parking for staff.
  • Has sufficient tracks for storage and daily maintenance of up to 22 - 12 car passenger trains (13 at substantial completion and capacity for an additional nine in the future).
  • Serves as a secondary rail maintenance facility to GO Transit's existing Willowbrook Facility to provide operational flexibility and redundancy under emergency situations.

Community And Green Benefits

  • The development of this facility will create jobs and help make the transportation system in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) more reliable.
  • The company selected for the Whitby (East Rail) Maintenance Facility provides design and construction elements that meet LEED Gold or greater designation by incorporating sustainable practices in its design and construction plans.

Economic Benefits

  • At the peak of construction, approximately 1,000 workers will be onsite, the majority of which will come from the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.  

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