Contractor is tapped as "delivery partner" for 9.7-mile rapid transit line, but officials are vague as to when two major construction contracts will be awarded next year, and a third bid.
Contractors EllisDon and PCL have a Nov. 1 deadline for employees to get vaccinations, and giant BC Hydro and LNG Canada projects require site worker shots in coming weeks.
Ruling comes as opponents target its $10.2B expansion that includes pressure on insurers to cut ties; Lloyd's of London unit will drop the project in August
Ontario and Quebec infrastructure work leads the country in activity, says Procore statistics, while Alberta and British Columbia recovery is slowed by changes in energy-sector economics.
Government carves 10% of $25B infrastructure program for school, health care and community projects with accelerated contracting; two provinces push new COVID-19 spending.
Infrastructure heavyweight Bird Construction is set to buy energy contractor Stuart Olson in deal that could create diversified firm with 5,000 staff and $2.25-billion in backlog.
The serpentine approaches of the Gordie Howe Bridge are necessary because of the right-of-way available to the P3 project's designers and the ground, weakened by previous salt mining, has taken extensive remediation to ready it for not one but four projects counting the ports of entry and the new Michigan interchange.