Yellowhead Trail Freeway Conversion Project
Province: Alberta
City/Region: Edmonton
Image Credit: City of Edmonton
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Project Rank
Project End: 2027
Project Type: Highway
Industry Sector: Transportation
Project Amount: $1 billion
Date of Completion: 2027
Funding Source: Public
Federal Funding: $$241.6 million
Provincial Funding: $241.6 million
Municipal Funding: $516.8 million
LEED Status: Certified
Previous Rankings
| 2025 | 71 |
| 2024 | 62 |
| 2023 | 60 |
| 2022 | 58 |
| 2021 | 51 |
| 2020 | 53 |
| 2019 | 57 |
| 2026 | 74 |
About The Project
The Yellowhead Trail Freeway Conversion involves converting the existing corridor from an expressway with signalized intersections to a free-flowing freeway with grade-separated interchanges. The upgrade will eliminate eight intersections, build two new interchanges, modify three existing intersections, and build new collector roads. Construction on the 156 Street to St. Albert Trail segment was substantially completed in 2024, along with the Fort Road widening project. Substantial work was also done along the Yellowhead between 156 Street and St. Albert Trail, where three lanes of traffic now flow in each direction
Project Owner: City of Edmonton
Engineer: AECOM (owner’s engineer), WSP, Stantec, CIMA+; ISL Engineering and Land Services Ltd; Al-Terra Engineering Ltd.; WSP (design and construction administration)
Contractor: Standard General Inc., Lafarge Canada Inc., PCL Construction Management Inc.; Graham Construction
Other Key Players: Wood (WSP) (environmental engineering); Arcadis (design); McElhanney (site surveyor); Parsons (consulting engineer); Aon (risk advisor); TWD Technologies Ltd.
Key Players
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- 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

