Interior to Lower Mainland Transmission Project

Province: British Columbia

City/Region: Merritt to Coquitlam

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Project End: 2015

Project Type: Transmission

Industry Sector: Energy

Project Amount: $725 million

Funding Source: Public

Provincial Funding: BC Hydro: $725 million

Previous Rankings

201566
201464

About The Project

This 247-km, 500-kV transmission line will extend from Merritt to Coquitlam, delivering power to BC’s Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island, which will deliver power to more than 1.4 million industrial, commercial, and residential customers. Increasing demand, changing patterns of use, and aging equipment have put pressure on the transmission grid, which continues to operate reliably but is reaching capacity in some areas. Conductor stringing commenced in summer 2014. The project will be completed and in service in 2015.

Project Owner: BC Hydro

Project/Construction Manager: Hatch (construction program management)

Engineer: AECOM; SNC-Lavalin; Levelton Consultants Ltd. (materials engineering on behalf of contractor)

Contractor: Flatiron-Graham JV (design, procurement, construction for line); ABB (EPC contractor for series capacitor)

Other Key Players: Golder Associates (environmental program management, geotechnical); Hemmera (First Nation consultation and negotiation support)

Legal: Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP (advised BC Hydro)

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