Port Lands Flood Protection and Enabling Infrastructure

Province: Ontario

City/Region: Toronto

Image Credit: WATERFRONT TORONTO/VID INGELEVICS/RYAN WALKER

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Project End: 2025

Project Type: Water Wastewater

Industry Sector: Other

Project Amount: $1.42 billion

Date of Completion: 2025

Funding Source: Public

Federal Funding: $$416.6 million

Previous Rankings

202560
202455
202355
202256
202148
202047
201947
201844

About The Project

The Port Lands Flood Protection and Enabling Infrastructure project is the redevelopment of one of the largest portions of under-developed land in a major urban core in North America. Located along the shore of Lake Ontario southeast of Toronto’s downtown core, the project will include substantial soil remediation, a new mouth for the Don River, and critical infrastructure for flood resilience to unlock the 325-hectare site for residential and commercial development. 

Project Owner: City of Toronto

Project/Construction Manager: Waterfront Toronto and the City of Toronto (project manager; EllisDon (construction manager)

Engineer: Wood (WSP) (consulting/environmental & geotechnical studies); Cherubini Metal Works Ltd.; DTAH; Planmac; Jacobs; LEA Consulting (engineer-consulting) Architect: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc. (Port Lands Estuary Plan)

Contractor: Colliers Project Leaders; Arcadis-IBI Group; HDR; INTECH; Altus; Geosyntec; Stantec; Entuitive; Grimshaw; Dillon; Graham Construction

Environmental Services: Interfluve; GHD; GFL; Englobe; Geo-Solutions; EXP

Other Key Players: SBP; Golder (WSP) (geotechnical services/roads & municipal infrastructure); E.S. Fox; A.W. Hooker Associates Ltd. (cost consultant); Hanscomb; HRI (heritage contractor); Earth Boring Co. Ltd.; Priestly Demolition Inc.; Accenture (risk advisor); R.V. Anderson Associates Ltd.; Mulvey & Banani; Montrose Environmental (environmental specialists); Terrapex (consulting engineer); TULLOCH; EY (management consultant)

Architects: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc. (Port Lands Estuary Plan)

Other Suppliers: DECAST

Legal: Borden Ladner Gervais (Waterfront Toronto); Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP

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