Edmonton Valley Line – Stage 1
Province: Alberta
City/Region: Edmonton
Image Credit: City of Edmonton
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Project Rank
Project End: 2020
Project Type: LRT
Industry Sector: Transit
Project Amount: $1.8 billion
Date of Completion: 2021
Funding Source: P3
Federal Funding: $Building Canada Fund: $150 million; PPP Canada: $250 million
Provincial Funding: GreenTRIP: $310 million; Building Canada Fund matching: $150 million; interest-free loan: $140 million
Municipal Funding: $800 million
LEED Status: Silver
Road or Transit Length (KM): 13.1
Previous Rankings
| 2021 | 37 |
| 2020 | 34 |
| 2019 | 30 |
| 2018 | 27 |
| 2017 | 25 |
| 2016 | 26 |
| 2015 | 25 |
| 2014 | 10 |
About The Project
The Valley Line is the largest single infrastructure project in the history of Edmonton. It consists of a 27-kilometre low-floor urban line running from Mill Woods to Lewis Farms that crosses downtown. It will be separate from the city’s existing high-floor LRT system. This line will feature modern, low-floor, light-rail vehicles running segregated along existing streets and integrating with Edmonton’s surrounding neighbourhoods.
The first stage of the project is the 13.1-kilometre southeast section from Mill Woods to 102 Street. Construction is progressing on all areas of the project, with target service commencement scheduled for December 15, 2020. However, the project has hit delays, and will now be operational sometime in 2021.
Project Owner: City of Edmonton
P3 Team Members/Project Team: Fengate Asset Management; Bechtel; EllisDon; Bombardier; Transdev; ARUP; IBI Group
Engineer: AECOM;Hatch;Mott MacDonald;DIALOG;ISL Engineering and Land Services;GEC Architecture;Associated Engineering (engineering & environmental services);Wood Group (consulting)
Other Key Players: Aon; BTY Group; EY; KPMG; LeighFisher; Morrison Hershfield; INTECH; Englobe; Tetra Tech; AGAT Labs; GHD; McElhanney
Legal: Borden Ladner Gervais (legal advisor); McCarthy Tétrault; Norton Rose Fulbright
Key Players
Key Players’ recognize the organizations whose work, knowledge, and expertise go into constructing and delivering the significant projects that make our annual list.
Gold (15-19 Projects)
Silver (10-14 Projects)
Bronze (5-9 Projects)
- ACCIONA Infrastructure Canada
- Accuracy
- Alstom
- Associated Engineering
- Black & McDonald
- Blake, Cassels & Graydon
- Cartel Communication Systems
- COWI
- Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
- DECAST Ltd.
- DIALOG
- EBC Inc.
- FlatironDragados
- GeoVerra
- HDR
- Hemmera
- Infrata
- Kasian
- Lakeland Consulting Inc.
- Lavery, de Billy
- LRI Engineering
- McMillan LLP
- Montrose Environmental
- Mott MacDonald
- Mulvey & Banani
- NORR Architects & Engineers Ltd.
- Osler
- Parkin Architects Ltd.
- Plenary Americas
- R.V. Anderson
- STRABAG Inc.
- Tiree
- Torys

