Gordie Howe International Bridge

Province: Ontario

City/Region: Windsor, Ontario to Detroit, Michigan (WDBA)

Image Credit: WDBA

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Project End: 2025

Project Type: Bridge

Industry Sector: Transportation

Project Amount: $6.4 billion

Date of Completion: 2025

Funding Source: P3

Federal Funding: $$6.4 billion

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About The Project

This crossing is the largest and most ambitious binational border infrastructure project along the Canada–United States border. It includes a new six-lane bridge across the Detroit River, associated border inspection plazas, and connections to the freeway systems in Ontario and Michigan. In the summer of 2024, work to connect the bridge deck between Windsor and Detroit was completed, with the bridge becoming an official border crossing. Completion of the project is planned for September 2025, with the first vehicles expected to travel across the bridge.

Project Owner: Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority (WDBA)

Project/Construction Manager: Deloitte

P3 Team Members/Project Team: DBFOM Team: Bridging North America—ACS Infrastructure Canada Inc.; Fluor Canada Ltd.; Aecon Concessions; RBC Dominion Securities Inc.; AECOM; Carlos Fernandez Casado S.L/FHECOR Ingenieros Consultores, S.A.; Moriyama & Teshima Architects; Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects LLP; Dragados Canada Inc.; Aecon Infrastructure Management Inc.; Turner Construction Company; Aecon O&M, a division of Aecon Construction Group Inc.; DBI Services, LLC; URS Federal Services, Inc. (AECOM)

Engineer: Parsons (owner’s engineer); Arcadis-IBI Group (design); Stantec; COWI (design)

Environmental Services: Jacobs (environmental monitoring)

Other Key Players: EY (advising team); Golder (WSP) (geotechnical and foundation engineering); Hanscomb (owner’s cost consultant and special advisor); Kasian (PDC team); LeighFisher (lender’s technical advisor INTECH (risk advisor); CIMA+ (transmission relocation design); WSP (Environmental Services); Aon (risk advisor); Parsons (bridge technical advisor); Tetra Tech; Rider Levett Bucknall; A.W. Hooker Associates Ltd. (cost consultant); Canam Group; Englobe; EXP (engineering and testing services); Wood (WSP) (materials tester); Mulvey & Banani; HKA, Accuracy (management consultant); Egis

Other Suppliers: Entro (signage and wayfinding); Victaulic

Legal: Fasken Martineau DuMoulin (transaction advisor); Blake, Cassels & Graydon (legal advisor to the proponent); Dentons; Borden Ladner Gervais; Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP

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