Delivery of Centreport Canada Way

In October 2008, Manitoba passed the CentrePort Canada Act to establish CentrePort Canada as Manitoba's inland port in northwest Winnipeg and the Rural Municipality of Rosser to attract and coordinate business investment. In April 2009, Manitoba and Canada announced a cost share agreement totalling $212M to fund the construction of CentrePort Canada Way (CCW), which is intended to be the road transportation backbone of the 20,000-acre CentrePort Canada development zone. The concept for CCW called for a four lane expressway approximately 10km long between Winnipeg's Perimeter Highway and Brookside Boulevard including a major interchange and two rail grade separations on a route which had never been considered before. This is a greenfield project with all proposed roadways being new construction on new location. Construction was mandated to begin in 2010 with a 2013 completion date. This paper tracks the extraordinary measures Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation (MIT) undertook to meet the fast track schedule and the required construction innovations. Significant aspects include: accelerated conceptual, functional and detailed design with associated coordination challenges; concurrent development of MIT's first ever design-build process; design and construction of MIT's first mechanically stabilized earth walls; design and construction of the largest overpass structures in the province; design and construction of the largest box culverts in the province; challenges in construction staging and traffic operations; innovations in pavement rebar design and construction; innovations in accelerated consolidation of embankments. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD record number 201310RT334E.

• Record URL:
  http://www.tac-atc.ca/english/annualconference/tac2013/session2/mcritchie.pdf
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)

  401-1111 Prince of Wales Drive
  Ottawa, Ontario  Canada 
• Authors:
  • Christiansen, E
  • Eden, R
  • McRitchie, D
  • Miller, A
• Conference:
  • 2013 CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION OF THE TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION OF CANADA - TRANSPORTATION: BETTER - FASTER - SAFER
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 22 p.
• Monograph Title: 2013 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada - Transportation: Better - Faster - Safer

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Administration; Bridges; Case studies; Conferences; Construction; Culverts; Design; Freeways; Layout
• Uncontrolled Terms: Quick
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• ITRD Terms: 155: Administration; 3455: Bridge; 8018: Canada; 8531: Case study; 8525: Conference; 3655: Construction; 3360: Culvert; 9011: Design (overall design); 2885: Layout; 2752: Motorway; 9064: Quick
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Design; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01517968
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: ITRD, TAC
• Created Date: Mar 11 2014 10:56AM