{"id":4811,"date":"2021-10-03T11:39:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T11:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=4811"},"modified":"2021-10-03T11:39:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T11:39:06","slug":"awarding-toronto-sewer-deal-by-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=4811","title":{"rendered":"Awarding Toronto Sewer Deal by Duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sewer construction contract in Toronto, which&#8217;s value is C$184M (\u00a3108M), has been won by a Bessac\/EBC team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This team which is comprised of Vinci subsidiary Bessac and local firm EBC, are going to cooperate on the Fairbank-Silverthorn Storm Trunk Sewer System in the Canadian city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to decrease the effect of heavy rain on more than 4,600 homes across 140ha, this scheme includes a part of the City of Toronto Basement Flooding Protection Program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The intention of this joint venture is to build a main gravity storm sewer using a tunnel boring machine designed and manufactured by Bessac and also constructing 21 access shafts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other works will include constructing sections of local storm sewers using micro tunneling techniques; delivering open-trench construction of a storm sewer section, and building a storm drain outfall for the release of water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The estimated time period for this project is almost two and a half years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While a contract for developing a wastewater treatment plant in Greater Vancouver in partnership with Canadian Pomerleau, has been previously attained by Bessac, EBC was part of a team led by Aecom and SNC-Lavalin that was selected to design the R\u00e9seau express m\u00e9tropolitain in Montreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sewer construction contract in Toronto, which&#8217;s value is C$184M (\u00a3108M), has been won by a Bessac\/EBC team. This team which is comprised of Vinci subsidiary Bessac and local firm EBC, are going to cooperate on the Fairbank-Silverthorn Storm Trunk Sewer System in the Canadian city. In order to decrease the effect of heavy rain on more than 4,600 homes across 140ha, this scheme includes a part of the City of Toronto Basement Flooding Protection Program. The intention of this joint venture is to build a main gravity storm sewer using a tunnel boring machine designed and manufactured by Bessac [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43],"tags":[993,74,970,994,47],"class_list":["post-4811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-project-show-case","tag-bessac-ebc-team","tag-canada","tag-duo","tag-toronto-sewer-deal","tag-tunneling","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}