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April 14, 2009
Aecon Group joint venture wins Seymour-Capilano twin-tunnel contract
TORONTO
A joint venture including the Infrastructure division of Aecon Group Inc. has been awarded a project with Metro Vancouver for completion of the twin tunnels component of the Seymour Capilano filtration project.
Under the contract, the Seymour-Cap Partnership, in which Aecon is a partner, will complete the final three-kilometre section of a total 7.1 kilometre twin tunnel from the Capilano pumping station to the Seymour-Capilano filtration plant in Greater Vancouver.
Work on the project, which also includes excavation of two 270-metre-deep shafts and interconnection of pipes from nearby watermains will begin immediately. Completion is expected at the end of 2012 or early in 2013.
Aecon’s partners in the Seymour-Cap Partnership are Frontier-Kemper Constructors and J.F. Shea Construction. The partnership will complete the tunnels, following the cessation of work in January 2008 by a previous contractor. It will proceed using the original engineering design and the two tunnel boring machines currently in place.
The Seymour Capilano filtration project will provide filtration and ultra-violet disinfection of drinking water from two of Metro Vancouver’s three source water supplies. It includes construction of a pumping station, filtration plant and energy recovery facility in addition to the tunnel project.
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