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The Magazine of Aecon Group Inc. Winter 2019, Volume 6 THE MAGAZINE OF AECON GROUP INC. WINTER 2019, VOLUME 6 LAYING THE TRACKS FOR A NEW MONTREAL FULL THROTTLE FORWARD EXPERIENCE ON THE LINE IN TRANSIT Montreal’s Réseau express Bermuda Airport Enbridge Line 3 Finch West métropolitain (REM) Project Redevelopment Project Replacement Project LRT Project PUBLICATION MAIL AGREEMENT #41329046 12 8 THE MAGAZINE OF AECON GROUP INC. WINTER 2019, VOLUME 6 AECON’S VISION: To be the first company people go to for FEATURES building things that matter. ONE is a magazine published by Aecon Group Inc. for its employees and clients. For more information about Aecon, visit our website at 8 aecon.com. LAYING THE TRACKS FOR aecongroup A NEW MONTREAL aecongroupinc Montreal’s Réseau express For more information on any of the 34 articles published in the magazine, métropolitain (REM) Project please email [email protected]. 12 FULL THROTTLE FORWARD Michele Walter, Editor-in-Chief Irina Lytchak, Features Editor Bermuda Airport Rick Radell, Photographer Rob Kinnaird, Senior Director Redevelopment Project of Business Development Art direction & design: Hambly & Woolley Inc. 34 EXPERIENCE ON THE LINE Enbridge Line 3 Replacement Project – Phase 2 58 IN TRANSIT Finch West LRT Project ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: 2 Future Forward By Jean-Louis Servranckx 4 Major Projects at a Glance GETTING HOME SAFE IS IS SAFE HOME GETTING GETTING HOME SAFE IS 6 Did You Know? Frederick G. Gardiner Expressway ALWAYS OUR PRIORITY OUR ALWAYS ALWAYS OUR PRIORITY 18 High Energy ON THE COVER: Darlington Re-tube and Eglinton Crosstown LRT Project – Feeder Replacement (RFR) Project Adhering to safe work practices and procedures is is procedures and practices work safe to Adhering Adhering to safe work practices and procedures is Caledonia Station tunnel 58 20 Powering Up at Bruce ON THE BACK COVER: Bruce Power Nuclear Generating paramount to ensuring an incident-free workplace. workplace. incident-free an ensuring to paramount paramount to ensuring an incident-free workplace. Bermuda Airport Redevelopment Project Station Projects 24 From Waste to Resource If you are unsure how to perform your task safely, always always safely, task your perform to how unsure are you If If you are unsure how to perform your task safely, always Annacis Island Wastewater Treatment STOP and STEP BACK and speak to your supervisor. supervisor. your to speak and BACK STEP and STOP STOP and STEP BACK and speak to your supervisor. Plant Stage 5, Phase 1 Upgrade This magazine includes certain forward-looking 30 Meet John Chow statements that contain information concerning 44 Meet Nathalie Dinnissen safety Keep SOMETHING. SAY SOMETHING, SEE you If If you SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING. Keep safety possible or assumed future results or operations of Aecon. These forward-looking statements are 48 Full Speed Ahead SAFE! WORK WE WHY forget never and mind of top top of mind and never forget WHY WE WORK SAFE! based on current operating plans and competitive, Eglinton Crosstown LRT Project financial and economic data but are subject to risks 64 Bridging North America and uncertainties. Although Aecon believes the expectations reflected in these forward-looking Gordie Howe International Bridge Project statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance 68 Elevating Our Safety Game the expectations of any forward-looking statements will prove to be correct. By John Green ii ONE // THE MAGAZINE OF AECON GROUP WINTER 2019 1 These large-scale projects – many LEADERSHIP MATTERS of which are undertaken with project partners – constitute a significant portion of Aecon’s current project portfolio but certainly, not all. At Aecon, there is always great pride in the diversity of our project work, which is well balanced across all operating segments and reflective of a dynamic scope that ranges from mega- integrated projects, to medium-sized jobs, FUTURE to local work. We rely on this diversity – and our people across all segments of the business – to help keep Aecon at the forefront of our industry. Looking ahead to 2019 and beyond, FORWARD Aecon is strategically focused on growing and evolving while expertly, and safely, executing all projects in our record-high backlog. We know that if we are to succeed as the industry leader in construction and infrastructure development, we need to truly leverage: · OUR PEOPLE We’re committed to supporting, By Jean-Louis Servranckx developing, and celebrating our people President and Chief Executive Officer, and their valued role in Aecon’s overall Aecon Group Inc. success. We’re also committed to attracting the best talents in our industry to meet the challenges and opportunities ahead of us. This is an exciting time in the evolution York Viva Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects. · OUR CORE VALUES of Aecon. Our company is celebrating Aecon projects moving closer to completion Aecon’s foundational pillars – Safety unprecedented growth, record-high backlog, are the very successful John Hart First, Trust & Candour, Passion for important project milestones, the ongoing Generating Station Replacement Project on Excellence, Results Oriented, and successful execution of long-term mega Vancouver Island and Ontario’s Highway Learning & Development – must projects, and the beginnings of some 410 lane-widening project. always be foremost in our minds and dynamic new projects that are sure to write In 2018, Aecon celebrated several new our behaviours, helping to guide our the next formative chapters in Aecon’s long project awards and embarked on projects growth and evolution. and accomplished history. As Aecon’s new of great magnitude, including two at President and Chief Executive Officer, I Ontario’s Bruce Power Nuclear Generating · OUR PROCESSES AND TOOLS share in this excitement and the promise of Station. The first is a large Unit 6 Steam We are committed to further great success to come for our industry- Generator Replacement project and the strengthening the processes and tools leading and proudly Canadian construction second – under the Shoreline Power Group we use every day to ensure that we are company. I am thrilled to be part of the team joint venture – is the mega Unit 6 Fuel executing with precision while enhancing making it all happen. Channel and Feeder Replacement (FCFR) both project and economic efficiencies. Our Major Projects at a Glance feature in Project. With the anticipation of work at this issue (pages 4 to 5) offers a great “the Bruce” for years to come, Shoreline When I consider what we have achieved opportunity to see just how involved all of and Aecon opened a new office in nearby to date as a company, and then look ahead our business segments are in the execution Kincardine, Ontario in the fall of 2018 to to the opportunities that await, I can say and delivery of major projects across support our project teams. Construction with confidence that the future looks very Canada – some of which are the country’s has also begun this year on the massive bright for Aecon. Together, we can – and largest, most complex projects under way Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM) will – achieve great success. today in our industry. The Eglinton Project in Montreal, Site C Generating I would like to thank all of you for being Crosstown Light Rapid Transit (LRT) Project Station and Annacis Island Wastewater “Aecon Proud” in the work you do every under the Crosslinx joint venture, and the Treatment Plant projects in British day. I value your ongoing dedication and Re-Tube and Feeder Replacement Project Columbia, Enbridge’s Line 3 Replacement commitment to our company. (RFR) at the Darlington Nuclear Generating Project in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and Station under the CANATOM joint venture, Ontario’s Finch West LRT and Gardiner Wishing everyone the very best for a are both well into their respective project Expressway Rehabilitation projects in successful 2019 and beyond. journeys and successfully meeting major Toronto. Project teams are now ramping up construction milestones. In Bermuda, the on both the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline and L.F. Wade International Airport Second Narrows Water Supply Tunnel – Redevelopment Project continues to do the two late-2018 project awards out of British same, as construction moves forward under Columbia – as well as the Gordie Howe the Skyport banner. You will also see our International Bridge Project in Windsor, continuing work on northern Alberta’s Peace Ontario, which, upon completion, will River Bridge Twinning Project, as well as become the longest cable-stayed bridge Ontario’s Union Station Revitalization and in North America. 2 ONE // THE MAGAZINE OF AECON GROUP WINTER 2019 3 MAJOR PROJECTS AT A GLANCE Current and recently completed projects with a contract value of > $100 million (amounts represent total contract value) PEACE RIVER BRIDGE TWINNING PROJECT CONTRACT VALUE: $148M 1 COMPLETION DATE: OCTOBER 2020 YORK VIVA BUS RAPID TRANSIT PROJECT BERMUDA AIRPORT REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT CONTRACT VALUE: $261M CONTRACT VALUE: $274M (USD) COMPLETION DATE: 2020 COMPLETION DATE: JULY 2020 − 30-YEAR OPERATIONS, MAINTENANCE AND CONCESSION PERIOD FROM 2017 TO 2047 2 FINCH WEST LRT PROJECT CONTRACT VALUE: $2.5B COMPLETION DATE: 2023 30-YEAR MAINTENANCE AND CONCESSION TO 2053 3 HIGHWAY 410 WIDENING PROJECT SITE C GENERATING STATION AND SPILLWAYS (GSS) CIVIL WORKS CONTRACT VALUE: $156M CONTRACT VALUE: $1.6B COMPLETION DATE: 2018 COMPLETION DATE: 2023 4 GARDINER EXPRESSWAY REHABILITATION PROJECT: SECTION 1 CONTRACT VALUE: $248M ANNACIS ISLAND WASTEWATER COASTAL GASLINK PIPELINE PROJECT COMPLETION DATE: 2020 CONTRACT VALUE:
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