TORONTO — A fixed price contract valued at $956.4 million has been awarded to EllisDon Infrastructure to design, build, finance and maintain the new Toronto courthouse project.
The contract for the new courthouse, which will be located just to the north of Toronto’s City Hall at 10 Armoury St., was awarded by Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and the Ministry of the Attorney General.
The value of the contract reflects the payments made during construction, the substantial completion payment and the monthly service payments before inflation adjustments. It does not reflect the total project cost.
The EllisDon Infrastructure team includes EllisDon Capital Inc. (developer); EllisDon Design Build Inc. (constructor); Renzo Piano Building Workshop and NORR Architects & Engineers Limited (design team); EllisDon Facilities Services Inc. and SNC Lavalin O&M (facilities management); and EllisDon Capital Inc. (financial adviser).
The new courthouse will include a barrier-free environment; video conferencing; closed-circuit television to enable children and other vulnerable witnesses to appear from a private room; courtroom video/audio systems; a single point of entry with magnetometers, baggage scanners, continuous video surveillance and separate corridors to ensure security; and the first learning centre in an Ontario courthouse.
Another unique element to the project comes from the past. On Feb. 22, 2017, IO and the City of Toronto partnered to showcase tens of thousands of artifacts, mainly from the late 19th and early 20th centuries at City Hall. They were found on the site during an archeological excavation in 2015.
Construction is expected to start in the next few months, with an anticipated completion in spring of 2022.
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