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Who we are
Delcan Corporation (Delcan) is an international company engaged in three main fields:
- Management of major projects
- Intelligent transportation systems, information technology and systems integration
- Transportation infrastructure planning, engineering and architecture
Delcan brings its considerable expertise in the provision of planning and engineering services to York Region's rapid transit initiative. Its team of highly experienced project managers, planners, engineers, architects, computer and environmental scientists, landscape architects and economists are committed to continually provide the optimum level of quality and service to clients. A sound knowledge of proven and leading edge practices and technologies provides Delcan with a solid foundation from which to meet client needs.
Delcan engages in consulting, contracting, design/build, procurement and equity investment in a wide range of projects including: transportation systems, communications, highways and municipal roads, public transit, water supply and sewerage treatment, manufacturing facilities and commercial and residential developments.
Delcan brings extensive experience in a joint program office working environment as a lead member of the Toronto Transit Commission's 10-year Rapid Transit Expansion Program and the provincial government's GO-ALRT project. The company is currently partnering with agencies developing rail transit in Los Angeles and Tel Aviv. Through a single point accountability management structure, Delcan's divisional vice-presidents and chief engineers ensure that all projects meet the highest standards of excellence set by the company.
Delcan provides services through its offices throughout Canada, the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Venezuela, Barbados, Israel and Greece. The organization is entirely owned and managed by its employees.
What we've done
Rapid Transit Expansion |
| Client: |
Toronto Transit Commission |
| Duration: |
1991 – 2003 |
| Construction Cost: |
$7 Billion(estimated)
$945 Million committed for Sheppard Subway |
| Delcan Role: |
The Delcan-Hatch joint venture provided:
- coordination of all functional planning and environmental assessment studies,
- updating and development of new design standards for systems and fixed facilities,
- review of design and constructability for fixed facility and systems contracts,value engineering, quality assurance and contract administration,
- comprehensive contracting strategies developed in parallel with schedules, budgets and cash flow criteria for individual projects and the overall program,
- management of design construction contracts for the 6.5 km, $900 million Sheppard Subway project.
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Project Description:
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The Toronto Transit Commission initiated a major $7 billion program to expand the rapid transit network in Metro Toronto. The program comprised eight separate subway and light rail projects totalling 68 km, as well as a number of supporting projects. An international call for proposals led to the selection of the Delcan-Hatch joint venture as Program Management Consultant operating from an integrated owner-consultant program office. The consultant's mandate was to provide the technical expertise to ensure that all facilities and systems were planned, engineered and constructed to the high standards of the TTC.
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Los Angeles to Pasadena Metro Blue Line (LAPMBL) |
| Client: |
Los Angeles Pasadena Metro Blue Line, Construction Authority (LAPMBLCA) |
| Duration: |
May 1999 – April 2003 |
| Construction Cost: |
$350 Million |
| Delcan Role: |
Delcan, is currently part of a joint venture, providing project management and compliance auditing of construction under a multi year agreement with the LAPBML Construction Authority for this Design Build project. |
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The Pasadena Blue Line (PBL) is a 22 km long LRT line that is mostly at grade, with a short elevated portion on guideway structures. The majority of the line runs along an abandoned railway right of way, with roughly a third of the length within the median of a freeway. The system will operate a two unit consist of standard single articulated transit cars with overhead power pickup. The line consists of 13 stations, each having 80 m long platforms. One of the stations is elevated, while others are at grade, with access from the streets at grade, above and below the tracks.
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Ottawa Busway |
| Client: |
Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carelton OC Transpo |
| Duration: |
1976 – 2000 |
| Construction Cost: |
$250 million |
| Delcan Role: |
On the Central Area Transitway Project, Delcan was the managing consultant of the multidiscipline study heading a team of experts responsible of developing an effective solution for the transitway. Delcan has been involved over the last 25 years in every aspect of the planning, design and implementation of this bus-based rapid transit system commencing with the initial Appraisal Study chosing bus-based rapid transit over a number of other technologies. Subsequently Delcan has been retained for several feasibility, environmental and preliminary design assignments for various legs of the system. Delcan was responsible for the detailed design and construction supervision on major parts of the overall system. |
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Options investigated included a tunnel, an elevated guideway and a depressed partially-covered cross-section. Due to the sensitive location on one of downtown Ottawa's principle shopping and office streets, analyses were made of a range of issues affecting both construction and revenue services: air quality; climate studies; ventilation and vibration and noise. The elevated guideway option was particularly significant due to visual intrusion, and consequently proper urban design was a prime requisite. In the Ottawa area, 70% of the employed in the downtown area use transit to get to work due largely to a bus-based rapid transit system consisting of a network of bus lanes and bus only transitways serving the metropolitan area. The system currently consists of approximately 32 km of busway, as well as reserved bus lanes on expressways and city streets. The reserved lanes through the downtown, in an innovative configuration called "Fast Acting Lanes", carry approximately 200 buses per hour per direction. The Ottawa bus transitway system has now grown to a world renowned transit facility incorporating extended portions of exclusive and separated right-of-way. In the congested Central Area of Ottawa, there still remain critical areas where at-grade operation on two congested streets results in operational delays affecting overall system performance.
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North-East Light Rail Transit Line in Calgary, Alberta |
| Client: |
City of Calgary |
| Duration: |
1983 - 1987 |
| Construction Cost: |
Valued at $CDN 450 million |
| Delcan Role: |
To integrate the new line within major road corridors in a partially exclusive right-of-way, the City retained Delcan as alignment and trackwork designer in addition to our role as Design and Construction Engineers for Area 2 of the corridor. |
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The City of Calgary initiated the North-East Corridor Project to provide LRT service to a second quadrant of the city. This project added a further 11 km to the system operating on the initial South Corridor line. Services provided included:
- detailed alignment and trackwork installation design in a constrained urban environment,
- functional planning, detailed design and construction
- inspection for all infrastructure needed to traverse a major freeway interchange and 4 km of arterial road right-of- way,
- comprehensive specifications and tender documents for trackwork procurement and installation as well as civil, bridge and miscellaneous structural works,
- construction staging strategies to maintain traffic on corridor roads and all movements through the freeway interchange.
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Charlotte Corridors Major Investment Studies for Charlotte Area Transit System |
| Client: |
Charlotte Area Transit System |
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2000 - 2002 |
| Delcan Role: |
Delcan is contributing BRT route assessment and functional alignment and station concept planning, identification of environmental impacts, input to corridor evaluation and review of cost estimating along with service operating strategies using experience over two decades with Ottawa's transitway system. |
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The Charlotte Area Transit System is carrying out a five corridor Major Investment Study of Rapid Transit in the Charlotte-Mecklenberg County.
The Gannett Fleming, Delcan, PBS & J joint venture has been retained for the 12km West and 16 km Southeast corridors.
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Expansion of Istanbul Metro's Light Rail System |
| Client: |
Municipality of Greater Istanbul |
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1995 - 2001 |
| Construction Cost: |
US $480 Million |
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Delcan, in joint-venture, was contracted to carry out preliminary design and management of the design-build expansion of the system. Responsibilities included:
- comparison of the technical and financial feasibility of three corridors between 10 and 15 km in length
- development of alignment alternatives, station locations, ridership projections and cost estimates
- recommendations for integration of an optimum 15 km alignment with 12 stations
- preparation of preliminary designs, civil and electro-mechanical specifications and contract documents for design-build construction
- management and inspection of the construction
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The existing Municipal LRT system operates along an 18 km corridor from Istanbul's "old city" core through densely-developed surrounding areas and along the western coastline towards the international airport.
The Municipality initiated an expansion of the system in the form of a 15 km extension from the existing Otogar inter-modal station to newly developed commercial and residential areas at Ikitelli in the city's northwest.
The infrastructure for the extension comprised almost 5 km of bored tunnel, two large viaducts, cut-and-cover sections and 12 underground, elevated and at-grade stations.
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Phase 2 Feasibility Study – Airport Passenger Rail |
| Client: |
Deloitte & Touche Corporate Finance Canada Inc. |
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2001 – 2002 |
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Delcan carried out the Initial Feasibility Study for this Section. Services provided include:
- data collection, including obtaining electronic topographical information from the GTAA
- meetings with external parties – e.g. GTAA; CN; Via Rail; TTC; GO Transit; the Cities of Toronto & Mississauga, etc
- concept design/cost estimating/property requirements – CN Rail Spur Line from the proposed Woodbine Station into Tnew
- concept design/cost estimating/property requirements – Union Station to the proposed Woodbine Station
- Infrastructure alternatives/cost estimating/property requirements Union Station and Environs
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Transport Canada has initiated preliminary studies of the feasibility of providing high speed passenger rail service to Pearson International Airport from downtown Toronto. The Corridor will be sub-divided into two distinct components, first from Union Station (downtown Toronto) westerly to the proposed Woodbine Station. Utilizing the CN Weston Subdivision and then continuing on a new Rail Spur Line (twin tracks) from the proposed Woodbine Station westerly 3.5 km into LBPIA's new Terminal.
One of the critical issues in this section is the need to coordinate the planning/design of the proposed Automated People Mover (APM) in and around the Airport with the Airport Passenger Rail Corridor.
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Highway 7 Corridor Transitway – Terms of Reference for Individual Environmental Assessment |
| Client: |
The Regional Municipality of York |
| Duration: |
2001 – 2002 |
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Delcan in joint venture, is providing the analysis of Technology options considering BRT, guided rubber-tired systems and LRT, developing and evaluating several route alternatives and co-ordinating the assembly of the IEA Terms of Reference Document. |
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For this primary 38 km East-West corridor the Region is carrying out the Need and Justification Study and developing the Terms of Reference for the Individual Environmental Assessment of a proposed rapid transit service in the Region's Highway 7 Corridor.
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Autoroute 10 and Jean Drapeau Islands LRT Project, Montreal |
| Client: |
Agence Métropolitaine de Transport |
| Duration: |
2001 – 2002 |
| Construction Cost: |
$650 Million (estimated) |
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Specifically, Delcan is advising on alignment design criteria, route alternatives, station locations, maintenance depot access and preliminary design geometry.
The firm's services also include a comparative analysis of a tunnelled alternative to the proposed bridge crossing of the 2.5km wide St. Lawrence River and Seaway as well as development of Quality Management documents for the proposed design-build-operate implementation contract. |
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Through its affiliate, Roche-Deluc Lte., Delcan's transit professionals are providing advisory services in joint venture for the preliminary design of the 13 km LRT line between Downtown Montreal and Brossard on the St Lawrence south shore. The project also includes a study of a branch line to the Jean Drapeau Islands in the St. Lawrence River. The purpose of the assignment is to prepare preliminary designs of fixed facilities and systems and contract documents for turnkey implementation of the project.
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