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IBI Group, alongside partners EllisDon, Ontario Power Generation (OPG), The Weather Network, and Slate Asset Management, and technology provider Microsoft, has announced the launch of the Smart City Sandbox. The Sandbox is a smart city-themed accelerator, focused on bringing innovative new products and systems to urban environments that improve the…
May 11, 2018 @ 9:21am
EllisDon Corporation (EllisDon) and Carillion Canada Holdings Incorporated (Carillion) have finalized an agreement in which EllisDon will acquire certain assets and assume certain liabilities related to Carillion’s Canadian operations. Under the transaction, EllisDon has acquired 70 per cent of the issued and outstanding shares of four entities, of which EllisDon…
April 23, 2018 @ 9:06am
The City of Ottawa has signed a contract as part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) ratified on March 24th, 2017 for a portion of Stage 2 of the Confederation Line. EllisDon, as part of the Rideau Transit Group Partnership (RTG), is pleased to announce the signing of a contract…
September 27, 2017 @ 11:35am
Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver has officially opened its new campus. The 92-year-old institution relocates to the east side of downtown Vancouver from Granville Island to a purpose-built facility. This 26,700-square-metre (290,000 sq. ft.) landmark building anchors the regeneration of an industrial zone and is a…
September 05, 2017 @ 10:00am
The request for proposals stage has closed for three companies to submit their bids to design, build, and finance the new patient care tower project at Michael Garron Hospital. Based on a fair and open request for qualifications process that began in June 2016, the following companies were invited to…
August 17, 2017 @ 8:29am
EllisDon has announced the appointment of Paul Trudel as vice-president, people and culture. Trudel will assume the role and responsibilities effective immediately and will succeed Rosemarie Lipman who has entered the new role of senior vice-president, enterprise intelligence. "One of the things we celebrate at EllisDon is our unique culture,"…
August 02, 2017 @ 6:37am
The Government of Ontario has announced the completion of the Dufferin Street Bridge Widening project, a milestone in the GO Regional Express Rail (RER) program. Passing over Queen Street West, the Dufferin Street Bridge has been widened to accommodate the additional track needed to increase service levels between Toronto and…
July 24, 2017 @ 7:17am
The City of Ottawa has exercised the option, under the current contract, to utilize equipment continuity, knowledge, and cost efficiencies, and has signed a fixed-price variation agreement worth $349 million with Rideau Transit Group Partnership (RTG) for the rolling stock and onboard equipment for Stage 2 of the Confederation Line.…
July 04, 2017 @ 7:09am
Yesterday, Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services (MCSCS) announced the shortlist of three teams to design, build, and finance nine new detachments for phase two of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Modernization project. Following a request for qualifications process that began in January 2017,…
June 23, 2017 @ 12:09pm
Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Groves Memorial Community Hospital have awarded a fixed-price contract to EllisDon Infrastructure GMCH Inc. to design, build, and finance the new Groves Memorial Community Hospital (GMCH) development project in Centre Wellington. The contract between EllisDon Infrastructure GMCH Inc. is for $127.5 million. Payment will be made…
June 16, 2017 @ 5:10am
Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Sinai Health System have awarded a fixed-price contract to EllisDon Capital Inc. (EllisDon) to build and finance Sinai Health System's Phase 3A redevelopment project at Mount Sinai Hospital. The contract between EllisDon and Sinai Health System is for $288.5 million. An open, competitive request for qualifications…
June 09, 2017 @ 7:19am
The request for proposals stage has closed for teams to submit their bids to design, build, and finance the Cooksville Station project, part of the GO Regional Express Rail (RER) program. Following the request for qualifications process, two teams - EllisDon Infrastructure Transit and Kenaidan Obayashi Transit Partner - were…
May 24, 2017 @ 6:36am
Five companies have been invited to compete for the contract to build and finance the Brockville General Hospital Redevelopment Project. An open, competitive request for qualifications process, overseen by Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Brockville General Hospital, began June 2015. This process identified five teams with the construction and financial capacity…
May 18, 2017 @ 12:14pm
Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Groves Memorial Community Hospital (GMCH) have announced that EllisDon Infrastructure Healthcare is the preferred proponent to design, build, and finance the new hospital development project in Centre Wellington, Ont. IO and GMCH selected EllisDon Infrastructure Healthcare after extensive evaluations following a fair, open, and transparent request…
May 01, 2017 @ 7:21am
On March 1, EllisDon will begin redevelopment of the historic kiln building at Evergreen Brick Works. Conversion of the 53,000-square-foot, Building 16, will create a year-round hub for thought leaders and citizen city builders to collaborate in building sustainable cities; and, will provide an opportunity to test and drive change…
February 23, 2017 @ 12:02pm
Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Michael Garron Hospital (formerly Toronto East General Hospital), a division of Toronto East Health Network, have issued a request for proposals (RFP) to three companies to design, build and finance the new patient care tower project at the hospital. Teams invited to submit proposals were selected…
February 03, 2017 @ 9:17am
Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and West Park Healthcare Centre (WPHC) have announced three teams prequalified to design, build, finance and maintain the facility's hospital development project in Toronto. Based on an open, competitive request for qualifications process that began in September 2016, the following three teams have been prequalified and will…
February 02, 2017 @ 10:01am
Integrated Team Solutions (ITS), in partnership with the City of Saskatoon, announced that construction of the Saskatoon Civic Operations Centre (COC) successfully reached substantial completion on December 31, 2016. The new facility relocates the City of Saskatoon's Transit Operations and houses the City's first permanent Snow Management Facility. The facility…
January 03, 2017 @ 7:49am
Four tenders have been submitted at values lower than the $72-million expected price tag for phase 1 of the CFB Esquimalt jetty renewal project. According to an article from the Victoria Times-Colonist, the four bids under budget is a welcome sign for Defence Construction Canada, but it is just a…
December 30, 2016 @ 7:15am
Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Providence Care announced the new hospital project has reached substantial completion. Providence Care Hospital will open with full operations and services to clients and patients in April 2017. Located in Kingston, the new 622,000-square-foot Providence Care Hospital includes 270 private inpatient rooms, as well as modern…
December 02, 2016 @ 2:26pm
Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and the Ministry of the Attorney General (MAG) have issued a request for proposals (RFP) to two prequalified teams to design, build, finance and maintain the new Toronto courthouse. Teams invited to submit proposals were selected based on their design and construction capability, experience, facilities management capacity…
November 01, 2016 @ 7:14am
Two companies are now attached to Alberta’s Calgary Cancer Centre. Both PCL Construction Management, Inc., and EllisDon Construction Services, Inc., have been selected to participate in a Request For Proposal (RFP) on the project. PCL and EllisDon will have six months to prepare their packages. The successful proposal will be…
October 28, 2016 @ 7:15am
On October 20th, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) hosted a dinner and panel discussion titled Transforming Toronto 2050. UOIT has a foundation in technology, science, and professional practice. As Susan McGovern, vice-president of external relations and advancement, said UOIT students are “shop floor and boardroom ready.” The…
October 21, 2016 @ 9:38am
EllisDon has announced that the Net Zero Energy institutional building at Mohawk College Fennell campus in Hamilton is the first official pilot project in the Carbon Impact Initiative, which launched in June 2016 under the Low Carbon Agenda. A groundbreaking event was held at the school last month to mark…
October 18, 2016 @ 7:43am
A single qualified bidder has emerged for the construction management of the rehabilitation of the Centre Block in Ottawa. According to an article in the Ottawa Citizen, only a joint venture between EllisDon Corporation and PCL Constructors Canada has been qualified to bid on the decade-long project following last year’s…
October 17, 2016 @ 8:05am
The Canada BIM Council (CanBIM) held its 2nd Annual CanBIM Awards on October 5th in Toronto at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Eight award categories in total were presented, including one for Best In BIM handed out to the winner of winners from the seven main categories. The awards categories…
October 17, 2016 @ 6:43am
Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and the Ministry of the Attorney General (MAG) have announced two prequalified teams to design, build, finance and maintain a new Toronto courthouse. The teams were selected based on criteria identified in the request for qualifications (RFQ) process that began in April 2016. Selection criteria included design…
October 12, 2016 @ 12:25pm
Ontario is investing in a new facility at Seneca's King Campus that will help prepare students for the jobs of today and tomorrow, with new classrooms, state-of-the-art labs, a library, a learning centre and more study spaces. Deb Matthews, Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Development, was joined by Oak…
October 11, 2016 @ 8:12am
EllisDon has announced the appointment of Gerald Slemko to board chair and appointment of James (Jim) E.C. Carter, O.C., P. Eng., to its board of directors. Slemko is currently the chief executive officer of the Trudell Medical Group, a global medical device company located in London, Ont. He began his…
October 07, 2016 @ 6:45am
EllisDon and Cisco are building the next generation of buildings--this according to an announcement on October 4 that the two have completed the technology infrastructure for the PwC building in downtown Toronto. The new technology brings together all of the information technology systems in the building into one centralised system.…
October 05, 2011 @ 8:14am
For all the reasons mentioned in the story I wrote last June about big mergers, sometimes the little guy wants to be “swallowed up” by the big guy. This morning’s announcement that Toronto-and-Calgary-based construction consulting firm cm2r is merging with the much bigger UK firm Turner & Townsend is another one…
April 15, 2010 @ 5:44am
Integrated Team Solutions (ITS) has won a contract to design, build, finance and maintain the new Waterloo Region Consolidated Courthouse. As the preferred proponent, ITS is in the process of negotiating a final contract with The Ministry of the Attorney General and Infrastructure Ontario. The new facility for downtown Kitchener,…
January 18, 2010 @ 2:08pm
Construction on the new Sault Area Hospital should begin later this month. The hospital singed a contract with Hospital Infrastructure Partners — a consordium comprised of Carillion, EllisDon, LPF Infrastructure Fund (the Labourers' Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada) and CIT Financial — to build finance and maintain the…
August 16, 2007 @ 1:27pm