LATEST NEWS 
Roadbuilding | Steel | Trade Contracting | Sewer & Watermain | Heavy Equipment | Concrete | Building Envelope
March 8, 2010
Project progress
Work continues on Dufferin Street underpass project in Toronto
WILLIAM CONWAY/PROGRESS PHOTOGRAPHY
Construction continues on the Dufferin Street Jog Elimination CN/GO Transit Underpass project at Dufferin and Queen Streets in Toronto. Dufferin Construction Ltd./Holcim Canada have completion of the project scheduled for June 2010.
The project, designed by Delcan, includes a new transit railway with storm sewer, a new roadway and electrical work. McCormick Rankin Corp. is in charge of contract management and the owner is the City of Toronto.
Subcontractors include: Core Excavation; HC Matcon (shoring/caissons); Harris Rebar; Dufferin Construction/Holcim Canada (formwork/concrete); Munro (precast); Central Welding/ Ganawa Bridge Services (structural steel); AGI Traffic Technology Inc. (electrical); Bridge Tite (waterproofing); and Gazzola Paving.
| MOST POPULAR STORIES |
- Four companies short-listed to renovate London, Ontario hospital
- General Electric steps up participation in new wind projects
- Fanshawe College’s new Centre for Applied Transportation Technologies goes green
- Electrical industry welcomes Ontario’s creation of standalone energy ministry
- TransCanada begins construction on Alberta-British Columbia pipeline
- 20 Most Popular Stories
| TODAY’S TOP CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS |
These projects have been selected from 338 projects with a total value of $1,555,870,391 that Reed Construction Data Building Reports reported on yesterday.
$119,200,000 Innisfil ON Negotiated
INDUSTRIAL, WAREHOUSE, OFFICE, COMMERCIAL DEV
$100,000,000 Toronto ON Prebid
$93,000,000 Hawkesbury ON Prebid
| CURRENT STORIES |
- Contractors race to meet infrastructure stimulus deadline
- Tridel continues construction on Reve King West condos in Toronto
- Sustainability, heritage buildings hard to combine
- EllisDon continues work on 18 York Street office building in Toronto
- Stantec to provide engeineering services for Samsung Grand renewable energy park
- Industry jobs promised by campaigning New Brunswick premier
- July sees drop in U.S. construction spending
- Nabucco gas pipeline gains support in Europe
- Options being considered for new Pattullo Bridge in Metro Vancouver
- Car plows into Vancouver construction site
- Traffic control workers form B.C. Flagging Association
- British Columbia’s first six-storey wood structure takes shape
- Bird Construction begins work on new ice rink in Vancouver
- Northern infrastructure vulnerable to climate change effects: report
- ECO:LOGIC Engineering designs iPad construction software
- WorkSafeBC sets new assessment rates
- Cement ‘sniffing’ technology could help find Jimmy Hoffa
| ALEX’S ECONOMICS BLOG |
Reed Construction Data Chief Economist Alex Carrick discusses current developments in the North American economic environment with emphasis on the construction industry.
- For Canada, the longer-term outlook is largely about commodities (September 2, 2010)
- Canada’s construction starts in a transition phase (August 27, 2010)
- U.S. initial jobless claims rise to half a million again (August 19, 2010)
- More
