February 23, 2012

McCormick Rankin gets Ottawa River bridge design job

GATINEAU, Que.

McCormick Rankin Corporation has been awarded a design contract for Chaudiere Crossing.

The $750,036 contract covers engineering services for the crossing, which carries approximately 28,000 vehicles a day. It was the first bridge to connect Ottawa and Gatineau over the Ottawa River and consists of eight separate structures, built at various times between 1827 and 1978. A variety of structures connect natural as well as man-made islands and causeways, linked together by a road.

McCormick Rankin Corporation is an Ottawa-based company founded in 1957 that provides a broad range of professional consulting services in the transportation, environment and building areas.

This contract award follows the recent Government of Canada announcements of new investments of approximately $250 million, over the next five years, in Public Works and Government Services Canada’s (PWGSC) infrastructure projects across the country for a total of $320 million in funding for these assets, as part of Canada’s Economic Action Plan. PWGSC is responsible for 20 engineering assets across the country, including the Chaudiere Crossing, and is carrying out a five-year major capital work plan to ensure that they remain safe.

The contract was awarded under a standing offer for competitive structural engineering services. PWGSC will now solicit bids for the construction work, which is expected to begin in fall 2012 and be completed in fall 2013. As part of this plan, PWGSC is proceeding with the replacement of the deck, sidewalk and barriers, as well as seismic upgrades and a protective repainting of the existing structural steel elements.

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