SNC-Lavalin announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary TransitNEXT, has reached financial close on the Trillium Line Extension project. As the sole proponent in the TransitNEXT team, SNC-Lavalin will design, build, finance and maintain the new extension, and will also assume responsibility for the long-term maintenance of the existing Trillium Line.

The agreement with the City of Ottawa for the Trillium Line Extension marks the beginning of a fixed-price contract worth $663 million, with SNC-Lavalin providing $136 million in an upfront private deferred contribution. When factored to include the long-term cost to maintain and rehabilitate both the existing Trillium Line and its new extension, the total project is valued at $1.6 billion.

The TransitNEXT team will begin to mobilize on-site and start early investigations and site preparatory work in the coming weeks. Construction will be complete in 2022, with testing, commissioning and training carried out as segments are complete in order to meet the scheduled in-service date.

Approximately 12 kilometers of single and double track will be built, extending the Trillium Line from Greenboro Station to a new terminus station west of Limebank Road, as well as a 4-kilometer Airport Link, a section of which, will be elevated guideway offering quick, convenient connections to the Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport. The project also includes maintenance of the entire system for 27 years

The Trillium Line Extension project is the latest in a series of signature LRT infrastructure projects in which SNC-Lavalin has been involved in Canada, including the Eglinton Crosstown LRT project, Confederation Line project, the Evergreen Line and the Canada Line.