Thursday, October 29, 2026
Brantford, Ont.-based ANC Modular Inc. (ANC) is working with the Kenaidan Murphy Joint Venture to build the new pedestrian bridges and platform access buildings for renovations at the Oakville GO Station.
The four buildings, bridges, elevator shafts, platform access stairs and canopies will be built as prefabricated volumetric modules in ANC’s 180,000 square foot factory in. The modules will be certified for quality and fit before being delivered to the station and installed on site during future planned service disruptions when the site is prepped and ready to receive them.
The Oakville GO Station renovation, part of Metrolinx’s plan to expand GO service, will help prepare the station’s capacity for trains as often as every 15 minutes during the busiest travel hours. Kenaidan Murphy, the construction manager for this Metrolinx project, has already started work on site to rebuild platforms with provisions for future electrification, the new accessible pedestrian bridges with four elevators and four staircases, new mini-platforms, canopies and shelters, a larger bus loop, and upgrades to the station building.
Working with Kenaidan Murphy and the project’s design team, Toronto-based R.V. Anderson Associates Limited (RVA), ANC is currently working through modularizing the existing architectural drawings to suit its volumetric modular system while maintaining the original look and feel of the design.
This approach uses fully finished modular buildings as its construction method, a method known as volumetric modular construction. Each building, bridge or component from the foundation up is divided into large factory-built sections, called modules. Each module is a complete steel-framed unit, built in ANC’s CSA A277 certified factory and welded in their Canadian Welding Bureau (CWB) certified weld-shop. Modules are built exactly to the modularized architectural drawings and thoroughly inspected to ensure they meet the necessary quality standards. Once the steel structure is complete, ANC’s crews and subcontracted trades install as much of the interior and exterior finishes, building services and fixtures in the plant as possible to reduce the amount of work on site.
According to ANC, 80 to 85 per cent of the steel framing in the modules will be Canadian, with materials sourced from outside Canada only where Canadian manufacturers do not make them.
“The Oakville GO Station Renovation is exactly the kind of project that ANC was built for,” said Andrew Neill, founder, president and CEO of ANC. “Volumetric steel modular construction has an important role to play as our communities continue to invest in upgrades to our infrastructure, transit systems and more.
“Oakville GO is a busy site where every hour of on-site work matters. ANC’s modularization of the new platform buildings, bridges, elevator shafts, platform access stairs and canopies will help Metrolinx and Kenaidan Murphy deliver this project safer for workers, the public, and with minimal disruption to the passengers.”
Featured image: The future Oakville GO Station. Artist’s renderings, final designs are subject to change. (Courtesy of Metrolinx)
