The ACS Group, through its construction company Dragados Canada, won one of the two major railway contracts put into play in August last year in Ontario (Canada). Your consortium has been selected by Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx, as announced by both organizations on Friday, for negotiating the budget for the extension of the light rail line Eglinton Crosstown West, in the Canadian city of Toronto. The investment could exceed 4,000 million Canadian dollars (2,665 million euros).
Spanish team with the local Aecon and with the Italian Ghella. This consortium, named West End Connectors, has the Spaniards Types between different engineering firms for design work. ACS Infrastructure Canada, Aecon Concessions, Scotiabank Capital, Ghella Investments & Partnerships are part of the team that will raise the necessary funding.
They were rivals in the final section FCC, forming an alliance with Astaldi and Salini, and the Canadian consortium of EllisDon and Barnard.
The extension of this urban railway passes through a new 9.2-kilometer long route, six of them below the surface, which aims to create the future line 5 and connect the city with Pearson Airport. The works will require the use of a tunnel boring machine.
ACS and Aecon have been leasing the Eglinton Crosstown line since 2015, where they led the design, financing and construction works.