Highway 407 East Extension – Phase 2
Province: Ontario
City/Region: Oshawa to Clarington
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Project Rank
Project Type: Highway
Industry Sector: Transportation
Project Amount: $1.158 billion
Date of Completion: 2020
Funding Source: P3
Provincial Funding: $1.158 billion
Previous Rankings
| 2020 | 50 |
| 2019 | 52 |
| 2018 | 49 |
| 2017 | 43 |
| 2016 | 44 |
About The Project
Phase 2 will extend Highway 407 East approximately 22 kilometres from Harmony Road to Highway 35/115 in Clarington. The work also includes the addition of the 10-kilometre East Durham Link (EDL or Highway 418), which connects Highway 407 with Highway 401. There are eight interchanges as well, three of which are freeway-to-freeway.
Phase 2A of the project, running from Harmony Road to EDL, was completed in January 0f 2018. Phase 2B of the project, from the EDL to Highway 35/115 and including the EDL, is well underway. Paving, as well as work on bridges and other structures, continues to advance toward completion in line with the 2020 scheduled completion.
Financing Detail: The aggregate AFP delivery costs are $1.158 billion, with base capital costs of $1.052 billion.
Project Owner: Ontario Ministry of Transportation
Project/Construction Manager: Infrastructure Ontario
Engineer: EXP (geotechnical design for structures and pavements); Parsons>>; Wood Group (consulting)
Other Key Players: Aon (risk/insurance advisor to authority); Jacobs (technical advisors for procurement and implementation); EY (advising gov’t.); Infrastructure Ontario (procurement manager and project development); LeighFisher (lenders technical advisor); INTECH Risk Management (insurance advisor); Golder (materials testing and inspection); Englobe; A.W. Hooker Associates (independent certification); GHD (quality assurance services); WSP (archaeology); AGAT Labs (analytical testing); Rider Levett Bucknall
Other Suppliers: Canam Group; DECAST Ltd.
Legal: Cassels Brock & Blackwell (legal counsel to the Authority); Osler (legal counsel to the SPV); McMillan (legal counsel to the finance parties; Torys (acted for lender)
Key Players
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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

