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Highway 407 East Phase 2 Receives Final Completion Certificate

After opening to traffic early, the Highway 407 East Phase 2 project in Toronto is now officially complete. Blackbird Infrastructure 407 General Partnership and Blackbird Constructors 407 General Partnership received the project’s Final Completion Certificate on July 31, 2020. This Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Maintain (DBFOM) project has a contract value of about $1.2 billion.   The Highway 407 East Phase 2 project now extends Highway 407 22 kilometers (13.7 miles) from Oshawa to Highway 35/115 in Clarington, ON.   It connects Highways 401 and 407 East with the 10-kilometer (6.2 miles) Highway 418 and overall provides eight new interchanges, including three freeway-to-freeway connections.     

Ferrovial Construction Canada Awarded the International Occupational Health & Safety System Certification

The (ISO) 45001:2018 certificate is an international standard which requires organisations to identify, manage and strictly control health and safety risks in their workplace It helps companies create better and safer working conditions for their employees, while serving as a benchmark of expertise and excellence for its operations Safety Management Systems take time to develop and evolve into sustainable safe work practices and procedures. They […]

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407 Highway releases its phase 2 project update for work carried out over winter months

The Highway 407 East Phase 2 project will extend Highway 407 22 kilometres from Harmony Road in Oshawa to Highway 35/115 in Clarington. It will connect Highways 401 and 407 East with a 10-kilometre East Durham Link (“EDL”), called Highway 418, that will serve as a north-south freeway and provide eight new interchanges, as well […]

Huron-Wendat Nation honored with new Solina Road bridge embossments

Before construction work began on the 407 East Highway Phase 2, archaeologists found over 150,000 items of indigenous origin dated to before the arrival of Europeans.  Many of the items found were pottery fragments, but included clay pipes and beads. These beads were of significant interest to archaeologists as they came from shells and rock […]

Ontario’s Minister of Transportation announces the upcoming opening of part of the 407 East Phase 2 highway

On the 8th of December, Steven del Duca, Ontario’s Minister of Transportation, announced the upcoming opening of part of the second phase of the 407 East Extension highway. The event was attended for Cintra by Andrés Sacristán, Director of Canada, and David García Santolalla, CEO of the highway, and for Ferrovial Agroman by Carlos Planelles […]

Ferrovial consortium completes financing of Highway 407 East Phase 2 in Canada for 642 million euro

The concession, based on availability payments, will run for 30 years from the end of 2017. Ferrovial, via subsidiary Cintra Infraestructuras Internacional, will lead the design, construction, finance and maintenance. The total project investment amounts to 880 million Canadian dollars, equivalent to approximately 642 million euro. As a result of a competitive procurement process, Ferrovial, […]

Ferrovial selected Preferred Bidder for Highway 407 East Phase 2 in Ontario, Canada

The consortium led by Ferrovial has been selected Preferred Bidder through a competitive procurement process for Ontario’s Highway 407 East Phase 2  project. Ferrovial, via subsidiary Cintra Infraestructuras, will lead the design, construction, finance and maintenance. The concession, based on availability payments, will run for 30 years from the end of 2017. Ferrovial, via subsidiary […]