Montreal-based engineering firm SNC-Lavalin Inc. has announced it has been selected by the City of Calgary as its delivery partner for Phase 1 of the Green Line LRT project.
The company made the announcement through a news release issued Thursday morning.
“SNC-Lavalin will leverage its technical and commercial expertise in complex megaprojects to support the delivery of Phase 1 of the Calgary Green Line LRT Project, an 18-kilometre transit system connecting the existing Red and Blue LRT lines and four MAX BRT routes,” the company said.
“SNC-Lavalin, along with its partners, will support the city in delivering project functions such as commercial management, technical support, project controls and construction management.”
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An official with the city’s Green Line team noted that while the city announced its partnership with SNC-Lavalin in November, the deal has now been finalized. SNC-Lavalin will work as part of CSIX Partners, a consortium of companies that are involved in the project.
The $5.5-billion Green Line LRT project is described as the largest infrastructure investment in Calgary’s history and involves funding from all three levels of government.
“The Green Line LRT is a historical project that will change the face of transit in Calgary,” said Ben Almond, the CEO of Engineering Services Canada at SNC-Lavalin. “Not only will it connect entire communities and improve mobility for people, organizations, businesses and future investors, it will also unlock vital transit oriented development, thus contributing to the city’s economic growth.”
In September 2009, SNC-Lavalin was selected to build the west leg of Calgary’s C-Train system.
The company has been at the centre of controversy in Canada in recent years. Last year, SNC-Lavalin was ordered to pay Quebec nearly $30 million to settle criminal bribery charges stemming from bridge work in Montreal.
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In August 2019, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was found by Canada’s ethics commissioner to have broken the Conflict of Interest Act in what has become known as the “SNC-Lavalin affair.”
The ethics commissioner found that Trudeau improperly influenced former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to get involved in a criminal case against SNC-Lavalin by offering a deferred prosecution agreement.
Trudeau had said his actions were the result of his efforts to protect Canadian jobs.
–With files from Global News’ Amanda Connolly and The Canadian Press
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