Northeast Anthony Henday Drive

Province: Alberta

City/Region: Edmonton

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Project Type: Highway

Industry Sector: Transportation

Project Amount: $1.81 billion

Funding Source: P3

Federal Funding: $P3 Canada Fund: up to $36.8 million

Provincial Funding: $1.77 billion

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About The Project

This project includes 18 kilometres of reconstructed six- and eight-lane divided freeway, nine kilometres of new six- and eight-lane divided freeway, nine service interchanges, seven grade separations, and twin river bridge structures. The 27-kilometre northeast leg of the ring road will be free-flow (there will be no traffic lights on the freeway).

One of the major project highlights is construction of twin bridges, which will stretch almost one-third of a kilometre over the North Saskatchewan River. Three lanes of northbound traffic and four lanes of southbound traffic will open to the public in 2016 and the design includes the capability for future widening of up to two additional lanes in each direction if warranted. The southbound bridge will include a pedestrian and bicycle bridge suspended below the structure to connect to surrounding existing and future trail networks.

The construction of 17 bridges is complete, with traffic resuming on several of them. Construction commenced in June 2012, with completion scheduled for October 2016.

Project Owner: Alberta Transportation

P3 Team Members/Project Team: Capital City Link General Partnership—subsidiaries of Meridiam, ACS Infrastructure Canada, and HOCHTIEF (equity); Flatiron, Dragados Canada, Aecon, and Lafarge Canada JV (design and construction); Volker Stevin Highways (operations and maintenance)

Engineer: AECOM (lead); WSP | MMM Group (segment 4); ISL Engineering and Land Services; GNEC/CTMS; Stantec; Amec Foster Wheeler; EBA; COWI North America (North Saskatchewan River crossing)

Other Key Players: BTY Group (lenders’ technical advisor); DLA Piper (Canada) (counsel to proponent); Ernst & Young (advising team); INTECH (insurance advisor); Tetra Tech (pavement design and geotech. services)

Financiers & Banks: ACS Infrastructure Canada; CIBC World Markets and National Bank Financial (joint lead underwriters)

Other Suppliers: AIL Construction Management; Canam Group; High Pine; Jatec-Nova Pole; Lafarge

Legal: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP (corporate counsel to ACS)

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